Going down with the SHIP

[Susan Atherton]

No: HPFGUIDX 50354

Laila:
they said that it was obvious in the ending scene, with that awkward
handshake that she was too shy(for lack of a better word) to hug Ron.
Supposedly this meant that she liked him. they said that she was too
comfortable with Harry, just as you should be with a good friend. She is
unsure of herself with Ron,like you would be with a first crush. I was
shocked I hadn't thought about it this way *shrug*. They gave me a whole new
outlook on things.

Scott:
See, I thought of that, but I'm still not so sure.  Maybe if they hadn't
given it so much of a 'running through the flowers in slow motion' (yes, I
know it wasn't in slo-mo) feel, I would think differently.  I suppose
there's not much point in discussing it; it'll end up like every other piece
of canon evidence related to shipping ("It means she likes him! " "No, it
means she thinks he's a twit!").

Now me. When I saw the movie, I had just re-read CoS the previous day to refresh my memory. When I first realised that Ron loves Hermione, it was in GoF with the Yule Ball - these people who say they knew from PoA and even CoS - god you're good!!! So anyway, this was pre-HPfGU for me, pre-any RL friends who also read HP, pre-any intelligent discussion of the books. So when I saw that moment, and I saw the happy hug between H&H, I thought "ahhh, he's happy she's back, that's nice" and then burst out laughing when I saw the awkward handshake, because I then thought "blimey, they're starting early on shipping R/H!" (well, I didn't think shipping, because that word wasn't in my vocab yet, but you know what I mean) I totally thought yes, it's the awkward thing that you pointed out, Laila. Nowhere did I see H/H - even the hospital scene with the hand-stroking I saw as a caring friend thing. 

Now, in my more analytical, cynical, post-HPfGU days, I see things slightly differently. Hmmmm.... I don't know where the movies are going, but it's very interesting. Sigh - let's just hope they're going somewhere that involves Jeremy Irons for Lupin...

The other thing I was going to say is, JKR tells Steve Kloves the stuff - on interviews I've seen with him, he's said she wrote the flashback in PS because only she really knew what we should see. He said she does lead him in the right direction though, as stated previously in this thread. However, the decision to have Hermione run down the hall and hug Harry and not Ron was not a script thing from Kloves, but rather an aesthetic thing from Columbus. In an interview with Emma Watson in some back issue of Empire magazine, she said something about being very embarrassed about having to hug Dan, because even though she knew Hermione would do it, she still felt embarrassed (fair play, she is only 12 or 13, and at that age I was embarrassed to hug my female friends for fear of being called gay - hmmm, maybe I just didn't have very nice friends...) but Chris insisted. He then also said you don't have to hug Rupert though - all Chris Columbus. He was setting up the R/H to come that we already know about, I believe - although Hermione's reluctance to hug Ron and the look on Emma's face does speak volumes for the Good Ship R/H!!

My two Galleons (yes, Galleons - I'm feeling generous)

Susan
who is thinking maybe she should subscribe to the HPFGU Movie digest too, since she could talk about Alan Rickman and the Ewan and Jeremy rumours til the cows come home
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