[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: Fred/Angelina

[heiditandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 50312

 
> Angua posted
> > <<<<She has sat silently studying her potions notes through Fred
> and George trying to borrow Pigwidgeon, Fred and George discouraging 
> Ron's questions with insults, and Fred publicly asking Angelina for a 
> date.  She is not shown responding at all, not looking up from her 
> work - nothing.>>>

> Penny replied
> > Well ...... why *would* she?  She's quietly studying because she is
> surrounded by normalcy.  
> 
Angua replied: 
> Fred and Angelina's shouted conversation was not normal 
> common room fare.  I thought it was *very* interesting, and I would 
> have thought Hermione might as well.

Actually, I have seen a few Fred/Angelina SHIPpers use Hermione's
seeming disinterest as canon basis for their belief that Fred and
Angelina were dating before the Yule Ball and that his asking her to go
was (a) a bit of a formality as they both already assumed they'd be
going together, and/or (b) a bit of an in-joke to their classmates who
were in the common room at the time, again, because they were already
dating. IMHO, it was a clever way for JKR to introduce a sort of behind
the scenes longstanding (or at least already existing) relationship into
the story.

Heidi