Why does Ron have a crush on Hermione?

[jdr0918]

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<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Robert Jones" wrote: Why does 
Ron have a crush on Hermione?  She's "plain" looking, so it's not her 
looks... I'm not saying that no boy could be interested in her (Krum 
is), but why is Ron?  Given what we know about his personality and 
his family life, I just don't see why a boy like Ron would be 
attracted to a girl like her.  Could someone please explain it?>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

Ron does not have a "crush" on Hermione, and I believe that's the 
whole point. A "crush" is the kind of purely hormonal reaction an 
adolescent male has to a girl like Fleur or any conventionally pretty 
female. We're meant to see Ron's friendship with Hermione evolve into 
something more grown-up, and we, along with Harry, Hermione and 
everybody else in the world, see it long before Ron himself does.

Remember the non-hug at the end of the CoS movie? That was deliberate 
foreshadowing of the unresolved sexual tension between Ron/Hermione 
that JKR knew we'd be seeing in the future.

Really, neither Ron nor Hermione are "crushable". But each is the 
kind of person the other kind of person grows up to marry.

--JDR (who thinks that Luna is to Hermione as Viktor is to Ron: a 
wake-up call...)