SHIP/Hermi (from CHAPDISC)

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 149117

I (Ginger) wrote, in the chapter summary:

> << Hermione explains that it is Harry, not the sport, that is 
popular.
> (snip)  Ron notes that his scars from the brains are still visible. 
> Hermione ignores him and tells Harry that he has grown quite a bit
> over the summer.  Ron says that he is tall too, but to no avail. >>

To which Rita (Catlady) responded:
> This bit never made sense to me. On first read, it sounded like
> Hermione fancied Harry. So, Ron, who fancies Hermione, tried 
clumsily
> to call her favorable attention to him, but Hermione ignored these
> blatant efforts. But it turned out that Hermione never fancied Harry
> and fancied Ron all along. So why'nhell didn't she respond to him? 

Ginger now: 
I think she got it all too well and was playing hard to get.  The 
problem was that Ron, having the emotional range of a teaspoon, 
didn't see it, and took a detour down Lavender Lane.

Rita also wrote: 
> I felt there should have been a sentence somewhere explaining how
> Lavender went from despising Ron last term to being infatuated this
> term. Maybe someone overhearing someone say that Lavender was so
> totally boring this sumer, all she would talk about was Ron's heroic
> save that won the Quidditch Cup for Gryffindor. (snip)

Ginger:
Having been a girl, I am painfully aware of how easily one can go 
from being oblivious to his existance to planning one's wedding.  I 
think it is typical of high school.  How many times did we say "she's 
going out with him?  When did that happen?"

RE:  Hermione's casting the Confundus, Rita wrote:
> 
> More of her Slytherin tendencies, like the whole CoS Polyjuice 
Potion
> scenario: fraudulent access to the Restricted Section, stealing 
potion
> ingredients, drugging Crabbe and Goyle... from someone who's such a
> goody two-shoes or Miss Priss about other people following the 
rules.
> Hyprocrisy is the easy word, but sometimes I wonder if she suffers
> from a touch of Multiple Personality Disorder, the rulebreaker
> personality and the rule follower personality.

Ginger says:  
I see it as an extention of her rule-following, in an odd way.  She 
sees that rules are there for a reason, thus she enforces them as a 
Prefect and generally follows them, as she is the type that likes 
order; but she also realizes that there are times when they need to 
be broken for the greater good, although as an exception, not as a 
general way of life.  Due to her intelligence, she thinks she has the 
wisdom to know when and how they should be broken.  IOW, she is like 
a parent who says "Do as I say, not as I do".  I'm sure she sees her 
own rulebreaking in a different light than the rulebreaking of 
others'.  Don't we all ;0)

Ginger, thanking those who have participated in this discussion and 
those who have warmed my heart with nice comments.