SHIP Hermione & Ron, Harry & Cho, the Yule Ball

[delwynmarch]

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> (GOF, US version, p 400) "I can't come with you," said Hermione, now
> blushing, "because I'm already going with someone." 

Del comments :
Isn't that scene uncannily reminiscent of one that took place just
minutes before ?

GOF, UK version, p 346 :
"D'you - d'you want to go to the ball with me ?" said Harry. Why did
he have to go red now ? Why ?
"Oh !" said Cho, and she went red, too. "Oh, Harry, I'm really sorry,"
and she looked it too. "I've already said I'll go with someone else."

So what do we have ? Two girls, being asked to the Ball, blushing, and
saying they are already going with someone else. Neither of them says
that she's not interested, they both insist on the fact that they
*have* to refuse because they are already taken... And we do know that
Cho probably meant it when she said she was sorry, that she might very
well have accepted Harry's offer if only he'd asked before Cedric did,
and that she was probably already interested in Harry.

Interesting comparison, isn't it :-) ? And just 3 pages apart too !

Del