Clues for SHIPS and for the plot - Let's not forget Viktor ! (long)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 98874

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "serenadust" 
<jmmears at c...> wrote:
> I really think that Krum is now part of the Order, and that 
Hermione has been asked by Dumbledore to keep him up to 
date. After all, based on their interaction in GoF and Rita 
Skeeter's articles, no one would suspect that Hermione has 
been writing to him for any reason beyond the obvious personal 
one, and Krum is no longer a student at Durmstrang where, 
according to Draco, they actually "teach" the dark arts. He's old 
enough to be a fullmember,since he's of age. <

Erm, but Hermione isn't. I  think that Dumbledore would dislike 
using an underage witch as a conduit for order business. Also, if 
she were Krum's contact, she herself would have to have a 
controller, whom she could have consulted about Sirius's 
supposed captivity.

It's a cute theory, but Dumbledore doesn't need Hermione to 
write to Viktor. Vicky's an international Quidditch star--anybody 
could correspond with him. I have wondered though, if 
Hermione, who talks about Harry all the time, is as careful as 
she should be in those letters. Someone else might be reading 
them.

Jo S.
> However, I *do* know that she does have a way of getting 
around  Umbridge which she doesn't seem to be sharing with 
Harry.  If you recall, in "The Beetle at Bay" Chapter 25, OOP, just 
after HRH read  about the DEs breakout of Azkaban, Hermione 
does something rather  odd.  
> 
> "...then Hermione pulled the newspaper back toward her, 
closed it,  glared for a moment at the pictures of the ten escaped 
Death Eaters  on the front, then leapt to her feet.
> 
> "Where are you going?" said Ron, startled.
> "To send a letter," said Hermione, swinging her bag onto her 
> shoulder. "It... well, I don't know whether...but it's worth 
> trying...and I'm the only one who can ..."
> 

Pippin:
Hermione is the only one who can get Rita to write Harry's story 
because "I've told her she's to keep her quill to herself for a 
whole year." --GoF ch 37.  Without Hermione's permission, Rita 
would have had to refuse the assignment.

Pippin