The unusual Gift? SHIP:Hermione's feelings for Ron in OotP

[delwynmarch]

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Paul Terzis wrote:
>     I have to add something else to the conversation. I am not quite 
> familiar with the superstitions of your countries. But here in 
> Greece we avoid to give perfume as a present to people we care and 
> love. It symbolizes seperation and clash between the person who 
> gives the perfume and the one who receives the perfume. The only way 
> to counter the bad effect is the person who accepts the perfume, to 
> give back  to the person who gives the perfume a couple of coins. 
> Just for info!!!

Del replies :
Yo, Paul, you're getting me horribly worried ! My husband offered me
perfume after the birth of our son ! He's not from my culture, so
maybe I should check ?

Lol ! No, honestly, I'd never heard of anything like that before. I'm
not British, I'm French, but the two cultures are similar enough. I
really think that Ron was simply trying to offer Hermione a "girly"
gift, but couldn't get it right (my husband had it simpler : I have
only one favourite perfume :-)

I'm wondering where he bought it though. I don't see him asking his
mom or his sister for help, or pretty much anyone in his family. And I
don't remember him leaving the house to go to Diagon Alley, or
anywhere else for that matter. So where did he get it ? Did he order
it maybe ? In that case, he couldn't know what it smelled like, so
that would explain the funny smell, especially as he probably didn't
have much money to invest in it.

Another horrible possibility just crossed my mind :-) Did he maybe go
around his mom and sister's stuff, and steal a bit of that perfume,
and a bit of this one ? Now, *that* would explain the funny smell, lol
! But I don't think even Ron could be as silly as to do something so
stupid !

Or maybe he asked Tonks. Knowing Tonks, I wouldn't be surprised if she
had *very* special taste in matter of perfumes...

Oh, another crazy idea : he asked Bill, but made him swear to keep it
secret. But Bill didn't know any better than Ron did, so he figured he
would ask help from Fleur. But he wouldn't tell her who the perfume
was for, so either Fleur chose the worst one she could find, or she
cursed the perfume when Bill wasn't watching, or even worse she
replaced it with a potion of her own. It's a safe bet to assume
Hermione has never put that perfume on yet, but maybe something will
push her to do it someday. I wonder what will happen then ?

OK, OK, enough silliness, all right :-)

Del