Why Ron Loves Hermione

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 81336

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Granny Goodwitch wrote:...What 
exactly do you mean by the phrase, "girls too smart for their own 
good"?  Granted, Dear that Hermione is indeed overt about her 
intelligence, but I fail to see where her intelligence is not to her 
own good.  Why on earth in this day and age must a woman still "cover 
up" her smarts?>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says (regretfully)

Because progress is not the same thing as evolution, and that's the 
way things still work. Men are psychologically delicate; a girl who 
shows her brain is going to have to waste a whole lot of time either 
mollifying men or rendering them unconscious if she is ever to get 
anything done. This is not just an uninformed opinion. I learned this 
though a whole lot of experience and I am a much happier old witch 
for the knowledge.

Also, Diana Fischer asked what the canon reference was for Ron's 
romantic interest in Hermione. The kicker is the last bit of ch 23, 
GoF:

**"Well, if you don't like it, you know what the solution is, don't 
you?" yelled Hermione;...her face was screwed up in anger.
"Oh yeah?" Ron yelled back. "What's that?"
"Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not 
as a last resort!"
...Ron turned to look at Harry. "Well," he sputtered, looking 
thunderstruck, "well -- that just proves --completely missed the 
point --"
Harry didn't say anything. He liked being back on speaking terms with 
Ron too much to speak his mmind right now -- but he somehow thought 
that Hermione had gotten the point much better than Ron had.**

--JDR