Clues for SHIPS and for the plot

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 98972

Mandy wrote:
> To me, when I read Hermione acting briskly, hardly looking up and 
> going strait back to her book, speaks that she is jealous and 
> determined to hide it from both of the boys.  She wants avoid giving 
> herself away and showing she her feelings of jealous for Harry to her 
> too closest friends.  When you have a crush or are in love with 
> someone who doesn't realize it, or is not reciprocating the feelings, 
> you are reluctant to show how you feel for all sorts of reasons. 
> Embarrassment, the fear of rejection, the fear of changing the 
> relationship as it stands. 

Del replies :
I know that, because that's also how I would act. However, from what
we've seen of her in the previous books, Hermione doesn't seem to be
the kind who hides her feelings that well, even when she wants to. Any
time she's had a crush or any kind of romantic interest in a boy, she
couldn't hide it when faced with it. In CoS, she could hardly
pronounce the name "Lockhart" without blushing or getting breathless.
In GoF, she keeps blushing every time the name of Viktor Krum is said.
Not to mention that she's so viscerally jealous of Fleur that she can
hardly be in the same room with her without scowling. So I find it
quite strange that she could discuss Harry's love life without
displaying any of her usual signs of jealousy, if she were indeed
jealous. Instead, she sounds merely scientifically interested in the
events, which is usually the attitude she puts on when dealing with
things that don't get to her emotionnally.

Of course, it could be that Harry missed all the clues, and thus the
narrator didn't use the right adjectives to describe Hermione's
behaviour...

Del