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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 106392

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ohneill_2001" 
<ohneill_2001 at y...> wrote:

> 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.<

I agree. There's also Hermione's reaction to Ron's gift of 
perfume. She said it was "interesting." That's the reaction of 
someone who's desperately reminding herself that it's the 
thought that counts--and who likes the thought, even if the 
perfume made her gag.

Otherwise she could have said, "It was very nice" in a distant 
way, or "You really shouldn't have," in an earnest, "Let's just be 
friends" kind of way .

Pippin