SHIP: Re: Who is the boy?

[grace701]

No: HPFGUIDX 54413

Angua wrote:
<Hermione talking about Harry "very much" is fully and sufficiently 
<explained by Harry:  "Yeah, because we're FRIENDS."

That's Harry's point of view.  Not Hermione's.  

Angua wrote:
<If he can accept it, I think we should be able to stretch our minds 
<and accept it too.

Accept it?  I just can't.  I'm too sneaky. ;)

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

Of course, it is her bestfriend afterall.  Why not talk about him?  
But what was said that made Krum confront Harry?  The supposed rumors 
on Daily Prophet that they're a couple, please!  As someone 
mentioned, Krum is probably used to all the rumors.  Why confront 
Harry?

Angua wrote:
<She seems to be jealous about Ron's crush on Fleur 
<and takes a strong dislike to the girl.

As you said, Hermione *seems* to be jealous.  

Angua wrote:
>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.

Why shouldn't she question Ron?  I would.  Hermione is at a state 
where she's realizing world issues, hence SPEW.  She's maturing.  
Where is Ron's state of mind?  He obviously prefers to go with an 
obnoxious person who is pretty than with Eloise who is nice but her 
nose is crooked.  I would definitely be hurt and offended, as well, 
seeing Ron come to the realization that I am indeed a girl.  

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

I agree with Penny and Melissa.  What's wrong with romanticising and 
eroticising?  We, H/Hers, are just seeing things in a different way, 
that's all. =)


Now I saved the best part last.  My favorite scene in the last page 
and chapter of GoF:
"Bye, Harry!" said Hermione, and she did something she had never done 
before, and kissed him on the cheek."

Angua wrote:
<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!

As Melissa said, "sounds like Harry's going to be thinking and 
wondering why she kissed him this time. Stir in Krum's suspicions and 
a few questions might start forming in Harry's mind."  Hey Melissa!  
He already is thinking about it!? ;)  Gulplum made it clear to me 
that this last chapter is Harry recalling the events after June 24th, 
the day of the Third Task, a month later (July 24).  Now, I know this 
whole conversation has been about Hermione and it *IS* definitely a 
possibility that she did give him a friendly kiss.  *BUT* just to 
switch to Harry for a minute.  Harry recalling something Hermione has 
never done before?  Something she did a month earlier?  Hmmm....makes 
me think about *why* he's recalling that small "insignificant" kiss?  


Greicy, who hopes she snipped properly