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

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 54403

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 Meliss9900 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/26/2003 4:49:59 PM Central Standard Time, 
> siskiou at earthlink.net writes:
> 
> > Hm, but what would his reason be for asking Hermione to go
> > to the ball with him?
> > 
> > The way she talks about Krum, and the things she mentions
> > about him in conversation make me think there really isn't
> > much else that would have motivated, *except* romantic
> > feelings.
> > 
> 
> I'd have to go back and re-read it but I didn't get the impression that she 
> thought it was especially romantic until they were leaving and he took her 
> off to ask if she could to visit him in Bulgaria. 

That didn't happen at the end of GoF just as Krum was leaving.  Krum asked
Hermione to come visit him right after he rescues her from the lake in the
second task.  And when Hermione tells Harry and Ron about this later, she
adds, "And he *did* say he'd never felt the same way about anyone else."  
If being chosen as the thing Krum would miss most wasn't enough to clue
her in to his feelings, he then comes right out and tells her.  I don't
think she returns his ardor, but she is quite aware of how he feels.  So
knowing that, if she chooses to gush to him about another boy she likes
more, she's being very selfish and callous.  That's not the Hermione we've
gotten to know through four books.  It's so far out of character for
Hermione that I just can't buy it.

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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"