Ginny's best friend (Was: Pansy Parkinson (Was: House characteristics))

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No: HPFGUIDX 150862

> >>Pippin:
> These aren't the ordinary kind of teenage secrets...they're things 
> that Dumbledore  and other adults don't expect to be discussed    
> with anyone but Ron and Hermione.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
By the time we get to HBP, sure.  But that's not all Ron and Harry 
and Hermione talk about.  They're friends too.  And Ginny is not a 
part of the group because she's off doing her own thing.  Except in 
the summer when there's a more limited choice.

> >>Pippin:
> There's an awful lot of Hermione's time that she doesn't spend    
> with the two boys. They've never been in her dorm and Harry and   
> Ron don't hang out in the library unless they've got a research   
> project. So we can't really say that Ginny never hangs with       
> Hermione. 

Betsy Hp:
And we don't.  Or at least, I haven't.  (Though I seriously doubt 
Ginny hangs with Hermione at the library.  Hermione doesn't go there 
to chat, after all.)  But there's a reason the Trio is called the 
Trio.  There's a reason that during Ron and Harry's big fight Harry 
was with Hermione most of the time.  There's a reason after 
Hermione's big fight with Ron, she was around Hagrid a lot.  And 
there's a reason Ginny was around for none of it.  Ginny is not 
Hermione's bestest friend.  She just isn't.  Hermione prefers to be 
with her boys.

> >>Betsy HP
> > Ginny is there when Hermione needs her, but she can be quite 
> > safely booted when Hermione is playing with her same-age friends.

> >>Pippin:
> That's the thing. Hermione isn't playing with Ron and Harry -- 
>  -- Sirius, the Tri-wizard Tournament, the Voldemort war
> and the horcrux hunt are not games.

Betsy Hp:
And they aren't all consuming.  (Though the horcrux hunt may turn 
out to be.)  Harry never has to go looking for Hermione or drag her 
away from Ginny.  Whenever anything goes down, serious or not so, 
Hermione is right there.  Because she is Harry's friend.  She sits 
next to him at meals, arranges his study calender, and reads in 
front of the fireplace with him.

She doesn't sleep in the same dorm room as Harry and Ron (she 
doesn't sleep in the same dorm room with Ginny either), and she 
doesn't bathe with them.  But other than that, they're pretty much 
together full time.  Whether shopping at Diagon Alley, checking out 
sweets in Hogsmeade, or drinking butterbeer in the Three 
Broomsticks, Hermione is one of the two people flanking Harry.  
Ginny is not there.

Betsy Hp