Hermione's Reaction to... Was: Re: Harry's first Kiss (is it a smoke screen?)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 105761

Jim Ferer wrote:
> The problem here is that all three are closely attached to one 
> another by their shared experience. That makes things confusing.

Del replies :
I agree. As I said in my previous post, I'm not a die-hard R/H
shipper. But I'm even less of a H/Hr shipper.

Jim Ferer wrote:
> I suspect that others see what Harry does not: how close he is to
> Hermione.  Again, that's not romance right now, but it wouldn't take
> much to tip the scales, and I think the scales will tip at some 
> point.

Del replies :
I don't see that Hermione is not as close to Ron as she is to Harry.
So *if* the scales tip, they could tip in Ron's direction. If they
ever tip.

Jim Ferer wrote:
> As far as Harry being offended when Cho dumped on Hermione, he is
> Hermione's close friend, after all.

Del replies :
I know. I'm not saying he shouldn't have been offended. I just think
he should have tried to see Cho's point too, if he really pretended to
be her boyfriend. He defended Hermione because he cares about her.
Obviously, he didn't care much about Cho, since he made no effort to
understand her.

Jim Ferer wrote: 
> Here's what I think would have happened with Cho, had she been
> "reassured:" she would have started pressuring Harry to loosen his
> ties with Hermione.

Del replies :
I agree.

I, Del, wrote (obviously :-) :
> Del, who's not a R/H shipper, but thinks it would be too unfair if
> Hermione ended up with Harry... unless Ron finds another love 
> interest first !"

Jim Ferer wrote:
> Huh? Was Hermione issued to Ron, or something? He didn't buy her on
> ebay.  Ron wouldn't be happy with her, anyway. He's an ordinary guy 
> (a good guy) who wants an ordinary life, and that's not Hermione.

Del replies :
Hermione wasn't issued to Ron, agreed, but neither was she issued to
Harry. What I meant was that Ron is always second-best to Harry :
Harry's got the money, the fame (even if he doesn't want it), the
talent, the better looks, and he was supposed to get the Prefect
badge.  But Ron doesn't care most of the time, because he's such a
loyal friend. However, I think he *would* care very much if Harry
started dating Hermione. He would hurt a lot and I feel it wouldn't be
fair on JKR's part to put Ron through *that*. But that's her
characters, she can do with them as she wants. And it's not like those
things never happen in RL either.

As for the "ordinary guy" bit, it makes me cringe badly. First because
I strongly believe that *nobody* is ordinary : everybody is the hero
of their own life, which by definition makes them extraordinary. And
also because there's no rule written anywhere that says that ordinary
people should pair up together and leave extraordinary people to other
extraordinary people, or that they should content themselves with
living ordinary lives, whatever that might be. And anyway Ron has
already shown that he does *not* want an "ordinary life" : he stayed
with Harry when things got rough, and he applied for the place of
Keeper on the Quidditch team.

Del