OOP: Hermione & Krum

[watsola79]

No: HPFGUIDX 66866

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "serenadust" <jmmears at c...> 
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> I really think that Krum is now part of the Order, and that 
Hermione 
> has been asked by Dumbledore to keep him up to date.  After all, 
> based on their interaction in GoF and Rita Skeeter's articles, no 
> one would suspect that Hermione has been writing to him for any 
> reason beyond the obvious personal one, and Krum is no longer a 
> student at Durmstrang where, according to Draco, they 
> actually "teach" the dark arts. He's old eonough to be a full 
> member,since he's of age. *That's* what I think they 
> were really talking about at the end of GoF, and that's why her 
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> was impassive.  Hermione is excellent at keeping secrets, Harry has 
> very little interest in her interaction with Krum anyway, and Ron's 
> reaction is a great way to cover up her true purpose in maintaining 
> the correspondence (and I don't really think she minds tweaking Ron 
> a little in the bargain<vbg>).
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> Anyway, this theory satisfies me concerning Krum & Hermione's 
> interaction at the end of GoF, and paves the way for Krum's reentry 
> in book 6 or 7.  Does anyone else find this scenario plausable?
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> Jo Serenadust



I agree that the Viktor/Hermione SHIP is a red herring, but I do have 
a problem with this theory...it assumes that Hermione is free to send 
pages of "updates" to Viktor about the Order.  Wouldn't they be 
concerned that their communications would be intercepted?  

- Lana Lovegood