SHIP: ?Hermione and Neville? :)

[Kelly Penn]

No: HPFGUIDX 88411

Tracy writes:
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>   1. Hermione is always helping Neville with schoolwork, especially 
>in Potions.  I know that she is trying to help a friend and problaby 
>feels sorry for Neville.
>
>   2. Neville did ask Hermione to the Yule Ball, even though she 
>turned him down.  She may have started to realize that Neville sees 
>her as more of a friend and that may have got her thinking about 
>Neville.
>
>   3. When she met Neville at St. Mungos she realized that there is
>more to Neville and what kind of life he has had than she ever
>realized. Many times when you learn to sympathise with someone you
>get a new appreciation for them.
>
>   4.  Remember that it was Neville who carried Hermione around the 
>Dept. of Mysteries when she was hurt and she will problaby not soon 
>forget that he was the one looking out for her.  
>
>I know that there are other instances that I am forgetting and that 
>there will be a LOT of people who disagree with me :) <snip>


It could be nothing more than a friendship. I wouldn't read too much into it because she also accepted to be with VIKTOR KRUM who in book 5 she was still keeping contact with and writing and visiting.  It was RON in book 4 that she told off about asking sooner and the ball. (It was about midway through the book when Harry got turned down by Cho, somewhere in there, don't have the book in front of me).
After all, boys and girls can like each other as just friends. My best friend in fifth grade was a boy, it didn't mean we had a crush on each other.


Hermione978