[HPforGrownups] Hermione's Sigh

[Taryn Kimel]

No: HPFGUIDX 89350

Robert Jones:
In OOTP, ch. 26, p. 572 (US ed.), Hermione is explaining Harry's 
problem with Cho to him, and says that he should tell Cho that he 
thinks Hermione is ugly.  He says he doesn't think she's ugly and 
then Hermione says he's worse than Ron and sighs ". . . maybe not" 
as Ron walks in.

Can someone explain the significance of the sigh to me?  Not being a 
15 year old girl, I don't understand.

Taryn:
Well, I'll try from the perspective of a 16-year-old girl, albeit American. It'll also depend on what SHIP direction you're coming from.

However, it's important to note that what Harry is worse at then Ron is not expressing feelings, but understanding those of women (and subsequently dealing with them). The entire conversation was from Harry not getting Cho's signals at ALL. Expressing his feelings, although Lord knows he was muddled about it, was not the problem at the date. (I myself spent the entire date chapter going, "Harry, what are you DOING?!" and knowing exactly what Cho was doing.)

Then you come to her saying that Ron's terrible at understanding women's signals, which would sound, to ME, that she was annoyed at his obliviousness to HER feelings. But I know a H/Hr's gonna bite my head off for that one. ;) Or you could take the more neutral route and say that Hermione is just amazedly annoyed that her two best friends could be so thick about stuff she found perfectly obvious, and Ron was the worse of the two. It could've been a, "I can't BELIEVE how stupid you guys can be sometimes" sigh.

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