SHIP: Re: Who is the boy? and Why I hate the H/G Ship

[grace701]

No: HPFGUIDX 54354

Martin wrote:
> [long and interesting discussion snipped]
> All I see at the moment is: Ron (has crush on) Hermione (has crush 
> on) Harry (has crush on) Cho. Ron's interest in Hermione is mainly 
> hormonal I think and Ron's not sussed it out yet, is even fighting 
> it. Hermione is slowly realising her feelings for Harry go deeper 
> than respect/friendship. Harry appears to have a basic
> teenager hormonal thing for Cho and is possibly thinking about it. 


Do you really see it like that?  What are your proofs that Hermione 
is slowly realizing she has deeper feelings for Harry? All I have 
are the fact that all throughout PoA she was constantly grabbing 
Harry's arm and she gives Harry a kiss on the cheek at the end of 
GoF.  These are what make me see Hermione slowly realizing her 
feelings for Harry.  Yet, I see she likes Ron because she tells him, 
after their Yule Ball argument, to not leave her as last resort when 
there's another ball (or something to that effect).  I quickly went 
into denial after reading that because I didn't want to believe she 
liked him back.  I used the excuse that she meant for Ron to ask her 
to the ball next time so they wouldn't be having such a heated 
argument.  (I bet she hates arguing with him all the time).  But 
Harry, unlike Ron, got the point.  What's the point?  That Ron likes 
Hermione and shouldn't waste time?  That she likes Ron as well?  If 
this is what Harry thought, what if Harry is wrong?  He has been 
wrong about other things.  (We can't always take character's words 
to heart, but we have no choice because theirs is the only words we 
have.)  Harry didn't listen to the argument so who knows what 
Hermione really meant when she said what she said.

Oh I'd like to point out that, iirc, Hermione in the TwiWizard 
Tournament was shocked at the way *both* Harry and Ron were acting 
towards the veelas and pulled down Harry (can't remember if she 
pulled down Ron afterwards).  Harry for some reason doesn't react to 
them after that, but Ron does making Hermione scowl at Ron all the 
time.  I believe if Harry were acting the same way Ron did, she'd 
scowl at him, too, but he's "immuned" to the veelas now for some 
reason.  It seems she gets upset at Ron because Ron is looking at 
outer beauty and not inner beauty.  Which brings about that whole 
argument about Eloise. Ron doesn't see that she's a nice person just 
that her nose is all screwed up so he doesn't want to go to the ball 
with her.  Ron knows Hermione's a nice person, but doesn't realize 
he likes her until he realizes she's a girl.  Notice how he's 
jealous after realizing she is a pretty girl and she has a date for 
the ball.  Ron and Harry are your typical teenage boys so, of 
course, they'll both be hormonal, but I believe Harry knows that 
looks are deceiving unlike Ron.

Greicy