SHIP: Hermione likes Harry

[serenadust]

No: HPFGUIDX 73579

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Erica" <cymru1ca at y...> wrote:
 
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> In any case.  I don't see Ron's kiss as being any more romantic 
than 
> the kiss she gives Harry.  Ron and Harry rise from the table to 
leave 
> for their game and Hermione rises with them.  She grasps Harry's 
arm 
> and takes him aside to tell him to not let Ron see what's written 
on 
> the Slytherins buttons. Ron makes his way to where they are 
standing 
> (he was sitting on the opposite side of the table?) looking 
desparate 
> and alone.  She kisses him (Good luck Ron) and turns and kisses 
Harry 
> (and you too, Harry ---).


I really don't engage in many shipping discussions, but I really 
must object to the totally unwarrented assumption that Hermione 
kisses anyone but Ron in this scene.

The quote is:

"Good luck, Ron," said Hermione, standing on tiptoe and kissing him 
on the cheek. "And you, Harry --"

There is no "too" in the sentence.  The expression "and you" 
indicates that she is wishing Harry luck as well as Ron, but not 
that she has kissed him.  There is no reason to think that she has 
kissed him, first, because it isn't mentioned, and second, because 
Ron would not have reacted the way he did to it if he had seen her 
kiss Harry as well.  In other words, there is no more reason to 
think that Hermione has kissed Harry in this scene than there is to 
think that she has kissed Ron at the end of GoF...which she didn't.

In other words, if JKR doesn't tell us a kiss happened, then there 
simply was no kiss.

Jo S., who thinks shipping debates are muddy enough, when they stick 
to what's actually written in the books