SHIP: Hermione likes Harry

[Erica]

No: HPFGUIDX 73073

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vecseytj" <vecseytj at t...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "maneelyfh" <maneelyfh at y...>
> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lewa8978" <lewa8978 at y...> 
> > wrote:
> > > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "holmesclan2002" 
> > > <holmesclan2002 at y...> wrote:
> > > > <snip>  Anyways, to me it's becoming incresingly obvious that 
> > > Hermione likes Harry.  Think about it.  She obviously admires 
> > > him a great deal and she seems to respect him a lot more than 
> > > she does, say, Ron.  
> > > <snip>
> > > > I don't think that even Hermione quite realizes it 
> > > > yet, but in future books I think her admiration and respect 
for 
> > > > Harry will win out.  No idea about how Harry would react 
> > though... 
> > > > any ideas? >>>> 
> > > 
> > > I agree, and I'll even go on to say that while he doesn't 
realize 
> > > it, Harry has feelings for Hermione. She was the one who talked
> him 
> > > out of Buckbeak's room after they came back from St. Mungo's.
> She's 
> > > the voice of his concious. And did you notice the attention to 
> > their 
> > > physical contact? She holds onto his arm, he pulls her away 
from 
> > > Grawp, etc.? <snip> tension. It's also a parallel to James and 
> > Snape, if they were both 
> > > in love with Lily, which has been suggested. 
> > > 
> > > "lewa8978"
> > 
> > Agree to Disagree.....she did the above as a true friend would, 
> > however she kissed Ron on the cheek not Harry.
> > Fran
> 
> 
> ME:  I think Fran has it right, but I'll take it a step further and
> say:  I think that Harry see's Hermione as a mother figure... even
> more so then Mrs. Wheasly.  Who's voice does Harry hear in his head
> when he is doing something he shouldn't?  Mrs. Wheasly?  No 
Hermione.
>  Think, what voice do you hear, (as a child), when you are doing
> wrong?  Mom.  Hermione mothers Harry something fierce.  And that 
talk
> about Cho.  I think it was the Mother Son talk about *girls*.  How
> does a mother talk to her kids about sex?  We get all business 
like. 
> We make it all matter of fact.  We must tell our little ones 
exactlly
> the right think.. so they don't get confused.  And that is what I
> think that Hermione is doing to Harry.  She doesn't want to 
embarrass
> Harry.  So she keeps it very matter of fact.  And gives him *loads* 
of
> good information.  
> 

I don't think that the Hermione is always mothering Harry is a 
particularly strong arguement to counter H/Hr. 'Mothering' is in 
Hermione's nature.  She nurtures, whether it's Harry, or Ron, or 
Neville, or Hagrid, etc.  Her nature no more detracts from a 
possibility of H/Hr than it would for R/Hr or N/Hr.

You'll notice, too, that Hermione gives her 'loads of information 
speech' to *both* Ron and Harry, to which Ron suggests 
Hermione 'write a book'.

> So, I have a hard time with the H/Hr ship.  Not 'cause I don't think
> they would be great together.  But, because I don't think they would
> be *great*!!!! together.  I think that Harry would be hen picked in
> about a month... at least Ron would tell her to back off.  

I seem to recall that Harry tells Hermione to back off too.  In fact, 
Harry seems to influence Hermione with a well placed glare.

Harry
> wouldn't like all of his plans made for him. (and Hermione would do
> that... if she felt Harry wasn't doing things as he should).  > 
Harry needs someone layed back.  No bossing, no yelling, no 
problems... 

I dunno, he seems quite impressed with Hemrione's ideas (the jinxed 
parchment, Protean Charm, even, in the end, the DA)


> I think Harry needs a nice vacation to Spain or the West Indies.  
Big
> tropical birds, sweet fruitie drinks and lots of pretty girls in
> *small* bathing suits.  ;)
> 

Um, O.K. :D

Erica