[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry and "I Love You" (was: Who is the boy?/ Harry's Funeral)

[Calliope]

No: HPFGUIDX 54191

> Greicy wrote:

> <snip bit about Hermione>

> I wonder if we'll ever know how Harry feels about not being told that 
> he is loved.  In GoF, he is seeing romantic relationships between men 
> and women.  Maybe in OoP he'll start to see love between all kinds of 
> relationships; start thinking about love in his own life and how he 
> hasn't been told "I Love You".  Poor kid.  I'd hate to see (*IF* they 
> become a couple) Ron and Hermione tell each other that they love each 
> other as Harry just watches on.  Depressing.

me:

I've seen a lot of fanfics do this - Ron and Hermione get all mushy in front of
Harry - and I don't think either of them would really do that.  For one, Ron
doesn't seem the mushy type; he would probably be too *squicked out* to do
something like that in front of Harry, and for another, Hermione seems too aware
of other people's feelings, and wouldn't want to offend Harry in that way (and
she also doesn't seem like the mushy type.)  Fanfics - whether R/Hr or H/Hr -
that have two of them being mushy in front of the other make me hit the back
button very fast.  I don't see any of the trio as being overly demonstrative in
that way.

I did pick up on how Harry notices people having *relationships* in GoF - I keep
thinking back to him eavesdropping on Hagrid/Madame Maxime at the Yule Ball and
how he said he wanted to "stuff his fingers in his ears and hum very loudly" and
how he tried not to look at Fleur Delacour and Roger Davies in the rose bushes
(although making out in a rosebush in the middle of a Scottish December is *not*
an experience I am sad to have missed as a teen).  That makes me think he
wouldn't be very publicly demonstrative, nor would he want to be around anyone
who was.  

--Calliope

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