[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: JKR: Recent Comment on the Shippin g Controversy

[Miller, Gina (JIS)]

No: HPFGUIDX 102435

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.



      Gina responding:
      Being a girl that had all guy best friends I still have to disagree. I
have been in the situation where I had two     friends - one wanted to go
out with me and the other seemed completely indifferent. Having been "one of
the guys"       up to that point it was intriguing that one of them had
started liking me at first, but then became annoying       because he became
jealous of everything I did which put a damper on what WAS a great
friendship. 
 
      Eventually I realized I was fond of my other friend, but I could not
say anything because I was afraid what the       other one would say or how
he would feel. This was aggravating because I did not know if a)the other
guy still       thought of me as a tomboy and thus not interested in dating
me  OR b)he did like me but would not say anything       because he knew as
I did it would upset the other guy! 
 
      Having said all that - I think it infuriated Hermione because of Ron's
tactless statement about HEY YOU"RE A GIRL   not because she actually wanted
to go out with Ron. I think she was later intrigued that a boy actually
liked her       after Draco and Pansy always saying how ugly she is, but she
did not like Ron that way.  I think in OOTP she is       JUST starting to
realize that she may really like Harry, but we will have to see.





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