[HPforGrownups] Re: Ginny's best friend (girlfriends in HP)

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 150915

> Nikkalmati:
> Some girls, (i.e. Hermione), are just like that - they don't relate well 
> to
> most other girls and as teens they hang out with boys.  These are more 
> likely
> to be intelligent, serious and not flirty kinds of girls. Hermione would
> never have a "best girlfriend"  like Lavender and Parvati because she 
> doesn't
> have enough in common with other girls.
> Nikkalmati (who never had a close female friend until  she was over  25) 
> .

Magpie:
Actually, I don't know if that disproves the point being made.  Being an 
intelligent, serious and not flirty girl does not mean you wouldn't have a 
best girlfriend.  I'm not sure what to make of putting the two things 
together, because it seems to suggest that boys are serious and intelligent 
where girls are not.  I was never the kind of girl Parvati and Lavender seem 
to be, and I always had female friends.  I generally had guy friends too, 
because from my non-flirty pov, why wouldn't I be friends with both? 
Ironically, a lot of the glimpses we see of Hermione and Ginny's friendship 
center on romance.

In fact if it comes down to having things in common with potential friends, 
Hermione's got nothing in common with either Ron or Harry, save for the 
common Voldemort goal.  The three of them don't connect for personality 
reasons.  The author pops out and announces the commencement of the 
friendship with a line about the bonding-effects of Troll fights.  If this 
were reality I don't know that Harry and Ron would be friends with Hermione. 
We see in PS/SS that Hermione has trouble making friends.

-m