[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: Re: Who is the boy?

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 54377

I have an alternate view of why Hermione talked to Krum at length about 
Harry but apparently not about Ron.

I have always had a large number of male friends, and when I was much
younger I once found myself in a situation where I was dating one boy but
had strong romantic feelings for another, one of my friends.  I found that
while I could talk to my boyfriend about most of my male friends, I
avoided discussing the one I had feelings for at all costs because I
didn't want the depth of my attraction to him to become apparent.

Hermione is generally a considerate and sensitive person, so I think she
would take care not to gush on about someone else she was attracted to to
the boy who clearly has a huge crush on her.  If I'm right, that would
tend to lean against her being interested in Harry, since she did 
apparently talk about him a good bit.  

Also, there are good reasons why Krum would be more threatened by Harry
than Ron, even if Hermione had been talking about both boys equally.  For
starters, the major newspapers were reporting that Harry and Hermione were
a couple.  That right there is enough to make Krum jealous, no matter what
Hermione talks about.  Also, Harry is a celebrity, and a bigger celebrity
than Krum.  Krum may be a bit under the spell of the Boy-Who-Lived image
himself (almost every other wizard is, so why not him?), and even if he
isn't he knows from personal experience that girls seem to be inordinately
attracted to famous people.  Think about it: if the girl you were wild
about spent most of her day hanging out with a major superstar and the
papers were alleging they were a couple, wouldn't you be a bit concerned?  
Would you be more concerned about the superstar or the ordinary joe who
dresses badly that they also hang out with?  

----
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"