SHIP: Harry and Hermione Foreshadowing in PoA movie?

[ohneill_2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 104553

I'm an H/Hr shipper, and I've read the posts in this thread.  I'm not 
really responding to anyone in particular, but I do have a few 
comments.

For my own part, I will gladly concede that, in the movie, the R/Hr 
ship appears to be well on its way.  As for H/Hr, I really didn't see 
much evidence in the movie to support it (some of the items listed 
here were things that I missed; others I simply wouldn't attach much 
significance to).

So am I throwing in the towel and joining the R/H club?  No way!

I have only two things to say in response to all of this.  First, 
while I agree that the R/Hr ship is more obvious than the H/Hr ship 
in the books as well as in the movies, the overtness that exists in 
the movies simply is not justified by the books.  The most obvious 
R/Hr moments in the movies (the handshake at the end of COS, the 
awkward scene at Hogsmeade outside the Shrieking Shack, and the 
nauseating hug as Buckbeak was getting executed) are not even present 
in the books.

Secondly, regardless of the movies, there is plenty of evidence (much 
of it subtle, but definitely there), *in the books*, that Hermione 
might prefer Harry, and that is left largely out of the movies.  I'm 
not saying that she definitely does, or that H/Hr will definitely 
happen, but I think it's fair to say that there is enough evidence in 
the books that she has feelings for Harry that the issue will have to 
be addressed at some point, regardless of who she ends up with.  

I guess I can sum all of this up by saying that yes, I agree that the 
POA movie strongly implies R/Hr, but that doesn't change my view of 
the situation at all.