SHIP! H/G indicators of Harry's feelings for Ginny

[susanmcgee48176]

No: HPFGUIDX 136521

Has anyone mentioned/noticed #2 yet? I hadn't noticed it and I 
thought it was really cool....

Clues that Harry and Ginny will become involved --- from 
The Half-Blood Prince. U.S. Scholastic Edition, July 2005.

1.  Harry asks Ginny if she wants to find a compartment on the 
Hogwarts Express. Ginny says she can't; she needs to meet boyfriend 
Dean Thomas. 

"'Right,' said Harry. He felt a strange twinge of annoyance as she 
walked away, her long red hair dancing behind her; he had become so 
used to her presence over the summer that he had almost forgotten 
that Ginny did not hang around with him, Ron and Hermione while at 
school."


2.	Harry is in his first Potions class of the term. He sits down 
by a "gold-colored cauldron that was emitting one of the most 
seductive scents Harry had ever inhaled: Somehow it reminded him 
simultaneously of treacle tart, the woody smell of a broomstick 
handle, and something flowery he thought he might have smelled at the 
Burrow." p. 183.

We find out that the potion is Amortentia, the "most powerful love 
potion in the world"

Hermione said '"it's supposed to smell differently to each of us, 
according to what attracts us, and I can smell freshly mown grass and 
new parchment and ----' But she turned slightly pink and did not 
complete the sentence." (p. 185)

Then, Hermione, Ron and Harry are in the Great Hall at the Gryffindor 
table for dinner and



"'Hang on,' said a voice close by Harry's left ear and he caught a 
sudden waft of that flowery smell he had picked up in Slughorn's 
dungeon. He looked around and saw that Ginny had joined them." (p. 
192)

Smell is one of the great indicators of erotic attraction
.question, 
what was Hermione's third smell? Something that reminded her of Ron? 
Love to hear other's thoughts here..

p. 242. Harry asks Ginny to join him, R and H in Hogsmeade. Ginny 
refuses; she's going with Dean.

p. 248. Harry's thoughts strayed to Ginny while walking back from 
Hogsmeade. He imagines her and Dean cosily closeted in Madam 
Puddifoots's, that haunt of happy couples
.He scowls
.

p. 286. Harry and Ron surprise Dean and Ginny kissing
..something 
large and scaly erupts in Harry's stomach
he wants to jinx Dean into 
jelly
and wants to instantly dismiss Dean from the Quidditch team.

p. 289. Harry feels dizzy, disoriented


	`"Harry, you've got a maggot in your hair,' said Ginny 
cheerfully, leaning across the table to pick it out; Harry felt goose 
bumps erupt up his neck that had nothing to do with the maggots." (p. 
339)

And so it goes...

Susan McGee, who found #2 while reading the HBP to my 7 year old 
son...