SHHermione's Reaction to... Was: Re: Harry's first Kiss

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 106341

Carol, quoting Hermione as the example of her romantic attachment to
Ron: ""Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does, and
not as a last resort!" (GoF Am. ed. 432)."

Carol:"If that's not showing her romantic attachment to Ron (and her
frustration with him for not recognizing his own attraction to her),
I'm a mandrake. Well, okay, that's pushing it a bit far. But to me,
that one remark says all we need to know about Hermione's feelings for
Ron."

Okay. You're a girl, and for the last weeks one of your best friends
(male) has been bitching and moaning that he can't find a date who's
not a troll; totally ignores you; pushed to the wall, he allows how he
just might take you, having tried everything else; then, after you've
got a date from the celebrity half the girls in school are gaga for,
he gets on your case for consorting with the "enemy."  Might you not
have some pointed remarks about that?  Heck, a Yankees fan wouldn't
even do what Ron did to a Red Sox fan.

I think the feeling Hermione is expressing here is her outrage at the
way Ron treated her, and the notion that she somehow should stay
nunnishly loyal to the clod who can't figure out her chromosomes are XX.

Why isn't her anger directed at Harry as well? She knows he wanted to
ask Cho, and he's not the one who went stupid.

Hermione might have been attracted to Ron in GoF, but it's going too
far to quote that scene as perfect proof.

Jim Ferer