[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry, Hermione & Ron [SHIP + CRAB]

[Charlie Moody]

No: HPFGUIDX 74418

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 12:07  PM, Rebecca Stephens wrote:

> --- greatelderone <greatelderone at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Rebecca
>> Stephens  <rsteph1981 at y...> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think the ship situation is pretty simple.  Ron is
>>> definitely interested in Hermione.  Hermione can
>>> be argued to be interested in either.  Harry is
>>> definitely not interested in Hermione.
>>
>> How so? His conscience has Hermione's voice and when
>> he dreams of Cho she turns into Hermione and he talks
>> and praises Hermione in front of Cho, his supposed girlfriend.
>
> He laughs when Cho is jealous of Hermione, laughs at
> the idea that he is interested or has a romantic
> relationship with her.  He displays no jealousy
> torwards Viktor.  He has no interest in her.

Me (Charlie):
He takes her for granted, certainly, and is just as oblivious about
these things as any other boy his age (the girls are so far ahead of 
the boys in this stuff at this age that the boys are little better than 
un-cooperative live-action "Ken" dolls for the girls to steer around).

Indeed, I'll bet that Cho caught his eye in the first place because 
she's so different in appearance from Hermione - he's never had to do 
without Hermione (as he had to do without Ron in Book 4), and so he's 
never had to weight the impact of a Hermione-shaped hole in his life.

Like the old song says, "you don't miss your water 'til your well run 
dry".

As for him showing no jealousy toward Viktor:  why should he?  Like I 
said, Harry hardly seem to feel a lack of Hermione in his life.  
Re-read the Yule Ball chapter from GoF - even when she's with Viktor @ 
the Ball, she's focusing as much attention on Harry as on him.  Viktor 
is, instead, jealous of Harry - because Harry's all she talks about, 
she's always trying to catch Harry's eye, and that's not good enough 
for Viktor -  he responds w/ jealousy.  (Just as Cho responds jealously 
to every reference Harry makes to Hermione.)

(Yes, Ron pitches a truly spectacular jealous fit in there, too, but 
Hermione's too pre-occupied to notice him winding up - and her surprise 
when he lets loose is portrayed as genuine.  If she were actually 
interested in Ron "that way", and doing all this as a way of winding 
him up, she could only pretend surprise - and it's been made pretty 
clear in the books that she doesn't pretend very well.)
--
Charlie, who's spent WAY too many decades working out the boy-and-girl 
thing....