The dating game

[kattfirmin1]

No: HPFGUIDX 68684


> Steven wrote,  
> > It seems to me that you aren't around teenagers much. I have 5 
of 
> my 
>  own, plus I teach. I can tell you from experience that teenage 
> girls 
> are ruthless>.

Kirstina wrote,
> 
> I am twenty-three years old. I remember vividly what it was like 
to 
> be a teenage girl. I wasn't ruthless, I never plotted to get 
myself 
> a boyfriend, and nor did any of my friends. Yet we still managed 
to 
> do rather well in the boyfriend stakes. I think what you forget in 
> this post, as you accuse teenage girls of materialistic scheming, 
is 
> that many of them are still inured in the conventions of the 
romance 
> novel. They still do rather want to be swept off their feet, and 
> they think that this is how relationships happen. That boys tend 
to 
> be unaware of this fact and rather clueless about it often leads 
to 
> a great deal of frustration from the girls>>


Teen girls are pretty scheming when they like a particular guy.  In 
my experience, we don't quite scheme against the guy, but we scheme 
against other girls whom we perceive as a threat.  (Actually, I 
ended up dating my husband because one girl tried scheming against 
me and it backfired, and made her look bad).  I don't think we do it 
maliciously, or every girl schemes the same way, etc, etc, etc.  (I 
don't want to be accused of stereotyping)  :)

I think why we haven't seen this side of Hermione is that not only 
hasn't Ron acted on any of his feelings towards Hermione, he hasn't 
shown any interested in ANY girl, with the exception of Fleur, and 
Hermione didn't seem to happy about that.  Still, Fleur wasn't a 
real threat, like Krum was.  If a girl started showing an active 
interest in Ron, and Hermione perceived her as a threat, the claws 
would start coming out.  (Luna, perhaps?)  I'd like to see Hermione 
not quite so cool and collected, and act a little irrational.  When 
Hermione isn't emotionally detacted, she's just like the rest of us.

Katrina