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

[grace701]

No: HPFGUIDX 54201

>>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.

>Calliope:
>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.  


Funny, I was going to write that he would accidentally over hear 
Hermione and Ron say that to each other.  I wouldn't think that 
they'd be affectionate towards each other in public, especially Ron.  
They are still young and innocent so I'm not surpised that Harry did 
that at all.  I do think that Hermione will demonstate what she is 
feeling, friendly-wise.  She has grown and matured tremendously since 
SS/PS.  Although she is only affectionate when full of emotion, she 
did kiss Harry goodbye in GoF which is something she's never done 
before and I'm sure (though I hate to admit it) she did the same with 
Ron (we'll never know).  That proves to me that she can show her 
feelings in public.  

Now the whole "mushy" subject:  I agree, they wouldn't be mushy in 
front of each other, but I think they are capable of being mushy. ;) 
I'd figured Ron would be mushy only because his parents may have been 
with each other, teaching him how to be mushy.  Harry has probably 
been seen mushiness, but it comes from the people he can't stand 
most, the Dursleys.  Maybe he'll learn that mushiness isn't all that 
bad when it is with someone he loves.  Hermione, well....I don't know 
because we haven't met her parents! (I'm not happy about that).  But 
I'd like to think she can be mushy as well. :D

Greicy