Hermione's feelings for Ron in OotP (Was: Re: Harry's first Kiss)

[ohneill_2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 106381

mayeaux45 wrote:

> This argument might have been more convincing (even to me) if it 
> weren't for OotP already being out...because there are relatively 
NO 
> concrete clues to say that Hermione has any feelings for Ron beyond 
> friendship.  

I'm a loyal H/Hr shipper, so I hate to argue too hard for R/Hr, but I 
think there is one string of quotes in OotP that, taken together, 
does indicate that Hermione might have feelings for Ron.  I've posted 
this before, but no one has ever responded, so I'll trot the theory 
out one more time here.  Read the following four paragraphs and 
consider their meaning *together*, and tell me what you think:

First, in the much-discussed scene in the common room following 
Harry's first kiss, Hermione was writing to Viktor.  She told Ron who 
she was writing to (after he asked), and Ron got jealous.  (U.S. pp. 
460-61).

Then, in Chapter 25, Harry and Cho go on their date.  Cho gets 
jealous over Hermione, and then she starts talking about Roger Davies 
and Cedric.  Harry gets jealous.

Finally, Ch. 26.  Hermione asks Harry how his date with Cho went, and 
he tells her it went badly.  Hermione responds with the following:  

"Harry, you're worse than Ron....Well no, you're not.  Look -- you 
upset Cho when you said you were going to meet me, so she tried to 
make you jealous.  It was her way of trying to find out how much you 
liked her."  (U.S. p. 572).

Ok, now...reading all of this together, ask yourself:  what did 
Hermione mean when she said "Harry, you're worse than Ron"??  Why 
bring Ron into the discussion at that point?  

What I got out of all of the above was that JKR is subtly telling the 
reader that when Hermione was writing to Viktor right in front of 
Ron, she was doing the same thing Cho was doing when she talked about 
other boys to Harry.  That is, she was trying to find out how much 
Ron liked her.

Don't get me wrong; I'm still in the H/Hr camp, but I do think the 
above is proof that Hermione might have feelings for Ron too.

--Cory