"A Little Romance" / Teamwork

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No: HPFGUIDX 127962


Luna said:
>>>Obviously, before knocking Harry's door, she had arranged with 
Ginny and Ron the plan to help Harry (again, they were waiting for 
them in Harry's room and had sandwiches and everything).<<<

Stefanie writes:
Mmm, except for the fact that when Harry immediately opens the door 
to Hermione's voice, "[t]here [is] snow in her hair and her face 
[is] pink with cold." Bits of conversation are alluded to later in 
the chapter, but unless she, Ron and Ginny planned really, really 
quickly, I don't see how your scenario can be plausible, especially 
as support for a 'shipping theory.

Also with the information that Hermione give us a bit later:
"Ron's mum has lit a fire in there and she's sent up sandwiches." 
it seems a bit more likely that Molly wrote to Hermione and planned 
out this bit in a letter. Figure this: If Hermione were to just 
burst through the door and march right up to Harry's room, only 
someone who was already in on the idea (or who had somewhat 
requested her arrival) would've been able to prepare a room that 
quickly.



Luna said:
>>>I am answering to the notion that some people have about Hermione 
being "the only one" to help Harry in this scene in order to support 
H/H.<<<

I think that's a silly notion, also. Obviously they all help him. 
However, it is worth noting that while Harry was taking "savage 
pleasure" in keeping himself in his room and is shown ignoring both 
Sirius's happy caroling and Molly's soft calling, he answers the 
door to Hermione without any hesitation. That is a noted difference 
in reaction -- he has pretty much spiteful behavior towards two 
characters who are arguably his mother and father figures. We see no 
effort on Ginny and Ron's part to come and get him, and see Harry 
feeling that Grimmauld Place is worse than Privet Drive. Quite 
dismal, really. While Hermione isn't the only one who is able to 
help him overall (Harry *does* have good friendS), why try to 
discount a simple fact: 'shippy or not 'shippy, Harry responds to 
Hermione without hesitation.



Luna said:
>>>3- Harry was still in the same dark, hostile mood when he got to
his room with Hermione (which indicates that Hermione didn't take
him out of his bad mood, only succeeded to convince him to get out
of the drawing room)<<<

If you read the discourse in the moment which Hermione is in Harry's 
room, her intent doesn't seem to be to "cheer him up" -- she doesn't 
attempt to do that, her mission is to get Harry out of the room and 
into a discussion. I don't think it's a slight on Hermione's 
character that she is pretty much determined to get him out of the 
room he's been associating with his isolation and into a room with 
two other people who he seems to trust. After Hermione enters 
Harry's room, she tells him why she's there and leads him into the 
other room -- involving Ron and Ginny isn't some show of how inept 
she is at relating to Harry. I think it's a reflection, as others 
have said, on the strength of the friendships that are later 
solidified as the six emerging from the DoM.




Luna said:
>>>>BTW, I find rather suspicious that Hermione keeps on spending 
vacations with Ron and Ron's family<<<

At this point, Hermione's nearly 16 and Ron's 15...even if they were 
romantically inclined (which I most certainly do not buy) it really 
doesn't make much sense for either the Grangers or the Weasleys to 
invite her to spend vacations because of that -- especially since 
Hermione's presence at the Weasleys has been alluded to in previous 
books. Honestly, especially with the less-than-sexually-forward (not 
that they'd be shagging, but having one's girlfriend stay over for 
an entire vacation does not really seem Arthur and Molly) culture of 
the Wizarding World, I don't find this a believable theory. It makes 
much more sense to go with the reasoning given in the books. 
Hermione's not been over the Weasley's all that often: the summer 
before 4th year for the QWC she arrived only a day earlier than 
Harry, she spent what we gather as most of the summer at OotP HQ 
(which to me speaks more of Voldemort's rising than romantic 
involvement), and spends Christmas in the episode we've discussed.

"keeps on spending"? Hmm...

Stefanie, who naught but two hours ago geeked out a purchased a JKR 
biography from good ol' B&N