SHIP: Hermione's Reaction to... Was: Re:

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 106539



About the Hug and the Hand-hold (Elves, don't shoot me please !) :
I personally have no problem with 2 potentially romantically-attracted
teenagers being shy of holding each other's hand when only one of them
is looking for support (Ron never needs to hold anyone's hand when
he's afraid, unlike Hermione who does it all the time in OoP) but
being comfortable with a full-body hug when both of them need support.
And when I saw the hug, my thought was :"Well, if people still doubt
R/H after *that !", and my husband (who's not a shipper but knows
about the ship wars) even turned to me with a half-smile on his face,
and said they couldn't have made it more obvious. But I should have
known better :-)

Sienna wrote :
> A confused H/Hr shipper who'd like to point out that in canon 
> the 'only' person Hermione turns to in moments of fear and upset for 
> comfort and security is Harry.

Del replies :
But if she turned to anyone else, Harry wouldn't know, would he ? And
as a consequence, we wouldn't either.
Why do you think she keeps talking about Harry to Viktor ? If all she
said was "Harry is the best, Harry is so great", I don't think Viktor
would need to talk to Harry : he would *know* that Hermione is in love
with Harry.
We know that Hermione talks to other people : she talked to Hagrid in
PoA during her estrangement with the boys. We know because Hagrid felt
he had to tell Harry. But Hagrid only mentioned how bad Hermione was
feeling and that she needed her friends. If she told him more than
that, Hagrid kept it to himself.

Del