[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione And Bulgaria

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 59425

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 m.bockermann at t-online.de wrote:

> So
> there is ample opportunity for the Trio to meet some interesting folks on
> their travel. I say the Trio, because I can't see Ron letting Hermione go
> and not coming along. Wether there is something between Ron and Hermione or
> he is only warning her against Viktor because Viktor is from Durmstrang - in
> both scenarios I believe that Ron would want to accompany her. I wouldn't be
> surprized if Harry would somehow be able to come along and still be
> protected from Voldemort without the Dursley's presense... 

There's one problem with the whole trio going to Bulgaria to visit Victor
-- Ron and Harry haven't been invited.  They very well might *want* to go
with Hermione, for a variety of reasons, but you can't just invite
yourself to someone else's house for an extended stay, especially someone
you hardly know.  And I really don't think Victor is going to be inclined
to invite Harry to tag along since he was already worried in GoF that
Harry posed a threat to his romantic interest in Hermione.  So either
Hermione is going without Ron and Harry (though possibly with her parents,
if they have any sense) or she's not going at all.  I don't see any way
Ron and Harry are getting a trip to Bulgaria out of the deal.

As for Ron not "letting Hermione go and not coming along," well, he really
doesn't get any say in the matter.  He's not her boyfriend (though he
might want to be), he's not her parent and he's not her chaperone.  His
wishes really aren't relevant in planning Hermione's summer vacations.  
She gets to make her own decisions, and he just gets to sit and stew about
them after the fact.

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"