[HPforGrownups] SHIPS: Jumping on the Bandwagon

[heather the buzzard]

No: HPFGUIDX 132211

Mira wrote:

>"'_Somebody_ had to act', breathed Umbridge, as her
>wand came to rest pointing directly at Harry's
>forehead. [...] And taking a deep breath, she cried,
>'Cruc---'.
>
>'NO!' shouted Hermione in a cracked voice from behind
>Millicent Bulstrode. 'No - Harry - we'll have to tell
>her!'
>
>Ginny was staring at Hermione as if she had never seen
>her before."
>
>Of course, everybody is watching Hermione with
>consternation, so Ginny's reaction is not different,
>but, somehow, the way it was described made me think
>at first (and second, and even third) read that it was
>precisely at this point when Ginny realised that
>Hermione's feelings for Harry were not entirely
>friendly.
>  
>

heather:

Meh.  I first, second, and only saw that as Hermione getting an idea and 
shouting out at that moment.  I also think she's over-acting it for 
Umbridge's sake, so the 'cracked voice' and the whole exaggerated panic 
over Harry is just part of the act. 

And so Ginny is staring at her, like the others, because she knows her 
quite while and would NOT have expected this behavious from her.  But it 
is this precisely -- her behaving VERY out-of-character -- that is the 
'hint' to the others that she's up to something.

> Somehow it seems to
>me that Hermione treats Harry as the adult, and Ron as
>the child, a sure sign, I think, that she sees Ron as
>a brother and Harry as a man, and I am pretty sure
>that Ginny has noticed it, and might spill the beans
>to the boys soon.
>  
>

Well, I tend to think sort of the opposite.  I think she treats Harry 
like a brother -- but not a younger, teased-and-tormented brother.  More 
like the comfortable twin.  Or, perhaps, she treats him as a generic 
'sibling'.  Hermione's not given to overtly 'feminine' things, frills 
and giggling, etc.  She tries to act like an adult herself.  She's 
merely treating Harry as an equal.  It's very asexual.

Ron, on the other hand, she gets more frustrated with, more emotional 
about.  If Harry goofs off, she rolls her eyes.  If Ron goofs off, she 
throws a fit.  She overreacts to his foibles.  It's not so much that she 
treats him as a child, but perhaps that she expects him to be more 
'perfect' than he is (as every girl wants her prince charming to be), 
while she has no false expectations of Harry because he's, well, just 
Harry. 

Basically, her reactions to Ron are more emotional. 

Whether that means they're eventually going to ship or not, I dunno.  
But I do think the whole rigamarole over the Yule ball, with folks 
telling Ron to basically 'wake up' and 'don't you realize?'... that they 
do like each other.

heather the buzzard