SHIP: Re: Who is the boy?

[anguaorc]

No: HPFGUIDX 54360

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Meliss9900 at a... wrote:
> <who thinks that Troels Danish proverb explains the situation 
beautifully. . 
> .What the heart is full of, the mouth spills over with>

Here's a situation that proverb explains even more beautifully:

"Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not 
as a last resort!"


Hermione talking about Harry "very much" is fully and sufficiently 
explained by Harry:

"Yeah, because we're FRIENDS."


*Viktor* accepts Harry's explanation:  Viktor, the one who knows 
exactly how much Hermione actually talked about Harry and how much, 
if any, she talked about Ron;  Viktor, the jealous, suspicious, 
grumpy one.  If he can accept it, I think we should be able to 
stretch our minds and accept it too.

A friend talking about a friend for some reason other than being 
secretly in love with him?   Amazing, but it could happen!

A friend giving a friend a farewell kiss on the cheek simply to show 
support because he's been through hell and is about to go through 
hell again?   It's not out of the realm of possibility!

A girl getting to know Harry well as a close friend, and not falling 
head over heels in love with him?   Yes, even that can occur!


JKR has given Hermione several of the little tell-tale signs that 
writers give their audiences when a person likes a person as more 
than a friend:  She seems to be jealous about Ron's crush on Fleur 
and takes a strong dislike to the girl.  She questions Ron 
indignantly on his preference for inviting pretty girls to the Yule 
Ball.  She seems to feel hurt and offended when Ron doesn't ask her 
except as a last resort.  In an extremity of temper, she demands that 
Ron ask her to the next Ball.  She blushes a lot when talking to Ron 
about her love life.

Those are CLUES -- clues that we have seen before in thousands of 
novels, movies, and plays.


JKR has failed to give Hermione any of those little tell-tale signs 
when it comes to Harry, despite clear and obvious opportunities:  She 
seems not to be jealous about Harry's crush on Cho or take any 
dislike to Cho.  She betrays no curiousity or interest about Harry's 
preference or intentions for the Yule Ball, even though the subject 
is introduced three times in her presence.  She shows not the 
slightest hint of hurt or offense that Harry never invites her.  She 
never hints in any way that Harry should ask her out in the future.  
She does not blush when talking to Harry about her love life, and she 
does not blush or show signs of embarrassment when her name is 
publicly linked to Harry's or when she publicly kisses Harry.  She 
shows no trace whatsoever of any hurt or disappointment when Harry 
firmly and repeatedly denies that she is his girlfriend.

These are clues as well -- negative clues.  Clues to tell us that 
Hermione *doesn't* like Harry that way.  Clues that they are indeed, 
as JKR plainly said, "very platonic friends."

It seems to me that to maintain otherwise is the result of a stubborn 
romanticising and eroticising impulse.


Angua