Hermione Talks about Harry

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 54501

I haven't been following the SHIP thread that closely because I think
it is kind of pointless (fun maybe, but not fruitfull). I don't really
see any long lasting initmate relationship coming out of the story. I
think teen relationships will be used as a humorous backdrop against
which the larger story will play out, and it will mostly take the form
of conflict and everyone being infatuated with the wrong person; in
love with someone else and unable to see the person who is in love
with them. After all the stress and struggle, in the end, people will
decide it's best to just be friends.

Now on to the main subject.

Why did Viktor say Hermione talked about Harry a lot?

Well, first and most obvious because she probably did.

If she did, then why did she talk about Harry so much?

I think it is as simple as nervious tension. 

1.) Hermione is very worried about Harry. She reasonably suspects that
someone entered him into the tournement in an attempt to harm him. I'm
sure that's constantly on her mind.

2.) Re: Viktor: this is the first time a man/boy has paid any
attention to her as anything other than a friend and a classmate. It's
the first time someone was interested in her because she was a girl.
Certainly she is more mature than most of her classmates, but she is
also very inexperienced and I say, insecure in the area of boy/girl
relationships.

3.) Hermione and Viktor don't have much in common, and there aren't a
lot of subject to talk about. The only thing they do have in common is
the Tri-wizard's Tournement, and the biggest aspect of the tournement
that is on Hermione's mind is here concern for Harry.

So she is in a very awkward nervious uncomfortable situation where the
circumstances would make anyone feel a need to talk to Viktor just out
of social courtesy if nothing else. Yet they have nothing in common
and nothing to talk about, so under that stress, out comes the thing
that they do have in common and the thing that is at the forefront of
her mind which is Harry and the Tri-Wizard's Tournement.

I think, just out of nervous tension, she groped for a safe
non-threatening subject, that allowed her to not get into the details
of her own personal life and feelings, and at the same time vent some
of her fears about Harry. 

This seem like a very common stress reaction. When you are under a lot
of stress and at a loss for things to say, whatever is in your mind,
hidden just below the surface, comes bubbling to the top. 

I think this tension forced the subject of Harry to come to the top,
but at the sametime in an effort to protect Harry and herself, I think
she was careful to limit what she said to small talk.

Summary, she was tense and nervious and groping for a safe neutral
subject to talk about, and that subject was Harry.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn