SHIP: JKR: Recent Comment on the Shippin g Controversy

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 102318

Gina wrote:
> If Hermione was the helpful friend why did she tell Harry to just 
> tell Cho how ugly he thinks she (Hermione) is? He then says, "I 
> don't think you're ugly".

Del :
Maybe simply because Hermione doesn't have the emotional range of a
teaspoon (not meaning that you do, mind you) and she realizes that Cho
 might very well be jealous of Harry and Hermione's close friendship.
After all, her own boyfriend had exactly the same problem the year
before. And Hermione also knows that the best way to tell a teenage
girl that you like her is to tell her she's pretty, and inversely the
best way to say that you don't like a girl is to say she's ugly. Hence
the piece of advice.

Gina wrote :
> I say Hermione knows Ron likes her now, but she likes Harry and he 
> is ignoring the fact that she is a girl. She wonders if Ron has 
> noticed why hasn't he and was fishing for a response!

Del replies :
I'm not sure Hermione had realised that Ron didn't see her as a girl
until his famous "Hermione, Neville's right, you're a girl !" I guess
she just assumed that they both knew she was a girl, just like she
knows they are boys. And just because one of the boys had a problem
doesn't mean the other must have the same problem. In other words :
Hermione has no reason to doubt that Harry sees her as a girl.

Del