Hermione is an Inconsiderate Idiot

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50214

Ebony said:
>>H/H shippers have repeatedly conceded both Harry *and* 
Hermione's personality flaws.  <<

 I find H/H shippers often don't concede *all* Hermione's flaws. 
It's like they're answering the "What are your weaknesses" 
question on an employment form : "I expect too much of myself" 
or "I get too involved with my work." 

But look at  her behavior compared to Cho's. Cho politely 
answers Harry's question about who's taking her to the ball, 
even though he blurted it and it's none of his business. But 
Hermione keeps Ron and Viktor both on a string all through GoF. 
It's this, IMO, that prompts her blushes in Potions Class.


Read it again, (and weep). 
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"There's something funny, though," said Hermione ten minutes 
later, holding her pestle suspended over a bowl of scarab 
beetles.  "How could Rita Skeeter have known . . . ?"

"Known what?" said Ron quickly. "You haven't been mixing up 
Love Potions, have you?"

"Don't be stupid," Hermione snapped, starting to pound up her 
beetles again. "No, it's just. . . how did she know Viktor asked me 
to visit him over the summer?"

Hermione blushed scarlet as she said this and determinedly 
avoided Ron's eyes.

"What?" said Ron, dropping his pestle with a loud clunk.
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Hermione blushes, and avoids Ron's eyes, *before* he drops 
the pestle.  The suggestion that Hermione would toy with two 
boys' affections doesn't trouble her at all--when she's thinking of  
Krum and Harry. Rubbish! as she says.  But then she gets all hot 
and bothered telling Ron about Viktor's invitation to spend the 
summer holidays with him. That wouldn't have anything to do 
with who invited her for the last summer holiday, would it?  Hint: 
it wasn't Harry.

I have a feeling that having Hermione turn literally scarlet is Jo's 
indication that Hermione *does* enjoy having both Ron and 
Viktor interested in her, and is manipulating the situation a bit to 
make Ron squirm (which, as Ebony pointed out, he richly 
deserves.)

 It's idiotic and inconsiderate, but understandable if she is really 
interested in Ron, thinks he's interested in her, but is frustrated 
by his unwillingness to reveal his true feelings. If she really is 
interested in Harry instead, I'd think worse of her for acting this 
way. What's he done to her?

Pippin