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

[Jenni A.M. Merrifield]

No: HPFGUIDX 107433

Jo S. wrote:
> I'd be willing to bet that the perfume didn't smell wonderful
> (hence the "unusual" comment) because Ron wouldn't know much at 
> all about selecting scents and also because he doesn't have much 
> money.
> 

  You know, it's funny.  Everyone else seems to assume that, by 
saying that the perfume is "unusual", Hermione is trying to 
be "nice" about a gift that wasn't quite right.  But when I read 
that, since JKR didn't add any particular emphasis to the word, I 
simply took it to mean exactly what it says - that the perfume is 
unusual and not a typical "smells like a rose or some other flower" 
perfume.  In fact, I thought Hermione might have really /liked/ it, 
because it was *different*.

  Now, I'm not a "Shipper" - I don't particularly care, one way or 
the other, whether anyone gets together with anyone else - so I 
don't go out of my way looking for clues.  But I also inferred from 
this that Ron (who undeniably has a "thing" for Hermione, even if he 
hasn't fully admitted it to himself yet) had actually put some 
thought into what he was looking for, and had found something that 
he thought Hermione *would* like, rather than just grabbing the 
first bottle of perfume he stumbled across, and that he'd succeeded 
in finding something a little bit different that also suited 
Hermione.

Jenni
Who really doesn't understand the constant fascination of the 
SHIPers, but figures "to each his (or her) own"