Letter to Victor (was Re: "A Little Romance" -Let's Be Friends)

[elady25]

No: HPFGUIDX 128509

imamommy:  shipping disclaimer, evidence for H/H

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
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> Up until GoF and to some extent in the last book, Harry has pretty
> much hung out with just the guys; Hermione being one of the guys. 
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imamommy:

That's what Harry thinks, isn't it?  So far, he's seen her as one of 
the guys.  But she's already exclaimed that she is a girl (to Ron, in 
GoF), and her off-page relationship with Ginny would suggest to me 
that she is quite developed as a girl.

I was rereading OOP last night, and I had a thought.  A lot of R/H 
shippers use her looong letter to Victor as a sign that she is either 
indifferent to Ron's crush, or trying to make him jealous, or some 
such thing.  But what struck me last night was the timing of her 
writing the letter.  The whole term, she spends her nights either 
doing homework or knitting elf hats.  Just a couple of pages before 
the common room scene where she is writing to Victor, she laments that 
she didn't have time to make more hats, and so many elves will have to 
stay over Christmas.  But then, the night before the last day of the 
term, instead of knitting hats, she's writing out the rough draft of 
HBP to Victor.  Why not save the letter until she's on her ski trip?  
Well, my completely biased, shippy opinion is not that it had anything 
to do with Ron, but perhaps with Harry.

Hermione and Ron know that Harry and Cho hung back after the DA 
meeting, and Hermione pointedly asks him "Did you kiss?"  Much has 
been made by shippers on both sides of the dialog, but I find that it 
may be telling that when Hermione returned form DA that night, instead 
of homework or elf hats, she turned her attention to Victor.  

I would suggest a (possibly subconscious) reaction to the knowledge or 
suspicion of what Harry was doing with Cho.  I would further suggest 
that writing to Victor may have been something that Hermione had put 
off, but feeling vulnerable decided to communicate with the one boy 
who has treated her with the proper romantic courtesies.  

I really wish I was a fly on the wall during Hermione and Ginny's 
private conversations.

imamommy