[HPforGrownups] Re: Why does Ron have a crush on Hermione? [Ship]

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

No: HPFGUIDX 93862

On 25/03/2004 04:12, Kathryn Cawte wrote :
> 
> I would presume all the same qualities that lead him to be best friends with
> Hermione - including her brains, talent and courage - also lead him to be
> attracted to her. Now I realise that it is possible for a guy to be friends
> with a girl without being romantically attracted to her but unless he's
> looking for some kind of one night stand he's going to be looking for a lot
> of the same qualities in a girlfriend as he does in a friend. Not that I
> suspect any of this is being consciously considered, and not just because
> he's a teenager, but because there aren't many people who could accurately
> describe *why* they 'like' one particular person and not another.
>

Slightly off topic here (so if necessary respond to it on OT-list), but 
I just could not help but quoting 18th/19th century French philosopher 
Joseph Joubert: "Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not 
choose as your friend if she were a man." I am glad that at least one of 
our heroes chosen that way *cough*Cho*cough.



-- 
Przemyslaw 'Pshemekan' Plaskowicki
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their 
capacity for experience. (James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791)