JKR and the boys

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 161447


> Betsy Hp:
> First of all, Hermione doesn't have any female friends.  Ginny comes 
> the closest (and I'll guess that Hermione would call Ginny her best 
> girlfriend) but Ginny is a very far second to Ron and Harry.  Ginny 
> might tell Hermione everything.  Hermione does not return the favor.

Amiable Dorsai:
Other than to trust her with the single juiciest bit of gossip in all
of Gryffindor Tower (The identity of Victor Krum's date to the Yule
ball).  This from a witch who is so good at keeping secrets that her
right hand has yet to be informed that she possesses a left hand, much
less what it's doing.

The idea that Ginny is not a close friend of Hermione is
insupportable, even if she doesn't tell Ginny other people's secrets;
she doesn't tell anybody else other people's secret's either.

Betsy Hp:
> As to her sorting out Harry's love life:  I think she picked up all 
> of her information on Cho either in the girls' restroom (*prime* 
> source of that sort of gossip) or may have quizzed Lavender and 
> Parvati.  But I'm quite sure Hermione did not figure out all of 
> Cho's issues on her own.

Amiable Dorsai:
Because *Hermione Granger* the smartest witch of her generation, isn't
going to have any contacts in *Ravenclaw*, nor any insight into the
rest of the "smart crowd".  Betsy, think that through.

Then (harkening back to her friendship with Ginny) note that she
*didn't* sort out Harry's love life.  She merely told Harry what he
did wrong after the fact; she never suggested any way he could fix it,
pretty unlike her, really, unless she had a reason not to.  Recently,
you described Ron as "the original H/G shipper".  I'm not so sure you
haven't nominated the wrong member of the trio for that role.

Amiable Dorsai