pumpkinhead's Un-Tribute to JRK

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Harry and Hermione: the star-cross'd lovers of their time?

Hi everyone, for the last week or so I've been too busy to contribute to the blog but that doesn't mean my mind has wandered from the Tragedy of Harry and Hermione. In fact, far from wandering, my mind has been centering in on the beautiful Truths of this story. Of lately, I've been comparing this romance and its cruelly apparent termination with other such romantic engagings across the ages. Although many such sproutings of True Love have come into my mind, one stands out above all the rest, for its purity and its classicity: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This all time epic story of love and betrayal and tears is alike in so many ways to my own generation's once-classic Harry Potter series that I cannot get the similarity of the love out of my mind. Harry and Hermione, like their ancestors Romeo and Juliet, have been torn apart because of senseless greed and hate. In Shakespeare's novel, the two "star-cross'd" lovers are forced to seperate because there is a plague on both their houses. In JRK's now-desecrated version, there is a similar - except positive - curse on Harry's house, which allows him to stay safely with the Durseley's. And, of course, Hermione is plagued in that she lives in a Muggle house. Talk about a plague on both houses!

Of course, this important similarity is minor compared to the main thematic singularity between them of TRAGEDY. Harry and Hermione, True Lovers from the starting point they met one another, have only been able to blossom together for a very short period in time. Like Romeo and Juliet, everyone has been working against them being together, including Dumbledore and all others who have forced Harry to live away from Hermione, at the Durseley's, while she and Ron are put together every summer at the Burrow. Like a burrowing mole, this plot has made an insidious and deep hole into the health of this young, volatile but passionate relationship. Trapped within these two opposing houses, one within the magical world and one within the human one, the two lovers can hardly ever even speak to one another. Like Romeo and Juliet using the Priest as a go-between messenger, Harry and Hermione have to use Hedwig. And in continuity with this point, Harry and Hermione are of course put into different dorms at Hogwarts, and their fellow students, in their immature teenagehood, selfishly conspire to attract them to themselves - much like the suiters after Romeo and Juliet.

Harry and Hermione are disposed- like Romeo and Juliet, respectively - irrespectively of their love, by JRK. Judging by the disregarding callousness of JRK towards my fellow True Fans of Harry and Hermione, the author (whose skill I do NOT mean to compare with Shakespeare, who wrote dozens of better novels) had it in for them from the start. Even as she wrote the springing, hopeful future love in the first books, and set up this true storyline, she was secretly conspiring to kill the romance off. Even though this would go against her own true story, she wanted to make a tragedy. Of course, her tragedy, unlike Shakespeare's which is made known to you in the PROLOGUE of the book, is a total about-face and not properly warned to the reader. Did she say that these lovers were "star-cross'd" in the first book? The second? The third? See where I'm going with this? Things were totally switched on a heartbeat, and my heart broke. Unlike with Romeo and Juliet, where you can see things coming and appreciate the tragic beauty of it all, in HBP things are just randomly changed.

And, as the R/H shippers like to so childishly remind the entire globe, JRK had this planned from the start. I now see this. The crime is no less a crime because of this - in fact, it is worse. More over, Harry and Hermione's love is no less true for the fact that it was cruelly "star-cross'd" from the beginning. Was Romeo and Juliet's love less fantastic, less honest, less classic simply because it was cursed? Of course not. Thirdly, the love of H/H was cursed from OUTSIDE the story, by the author, and not by things INSIDE the story that were properly set up, by the author. When R/H shippers look at H/H's tragic seperation and say "this proves the love was not True", I look at it and say "this proves the books were all a fraud." In honor of the beautiful similarities between these two classic epic-defining loves, both of which were destroyed for petty gain, I have prepared the image below.



Click on the image for a bigger version. Yes, it is photoshopped! I had some fun making all the guns into wands. The gangsters on both sides represent the forces trying to keep Harry/Romeo and Hermione/Juliet apart. If Hogwarts did a school play, surely this would be the poster!

In other news, it seems like some people have been mentioning my work on other sites, which is good publicity for the cause. But these particular two make especially little sense. Hey guys, how about you read my mission statement so you know what my cause is, before you go and make statements that are so non-sensory.

http://ocpundit.blogspot.com/2005/08/you-sunk-my-ship_29.html

http://www.livejournal.com/community/deleterius/1645454.html

Sigh. Trolls really enjoy the extra space they get at their own websites. But hey, it's a free country and there's no law against being ignorant.

Sincerely,

pumpkinhead

31 Comments:

  • Oh. My. Gosh. You are totally crazy.

    If this is a joke, it's been going on for far too long. Quit it.

    If you are indeed serious in your little "quest", seek professional help immediately.

    "...the author (whose skill I do NOT mean to compare with Shakespeare, who wrote dozens of better novels)"

    Wow. Just, wow. I wasn't aware that Shakespeare wrote novels; I was under the impression he wrote sonnets and plays.

    *mind boggles at the stupidity of it all*

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:21 AM  

  • I must say, I love the fact that you've provided a link to a blog of an author who read an analogy I'd made in context (comments that you, pumpkinhead, took wildly out of context). Really, it's wonderful stuff.

    Care to give me the titles of some of those Shakespeare novels, mushy pumpkinhead?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:42 AM  

  • You think you know JKR?? You think you know what she's thinking?? Her books are:
    1) Not a romance series
    2) Completely hers
    3) Having no or very little similarity to Shakespeare and his work

    You think you can stop Ron/Hermione? Well, you can't. Give it up.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:11 AM  

  • How the HECK were they star-cross'd? Romeo and Juliet were seperated by a feud so huge and deep even the servants of the opposing families (the montagues and capulets - think you can tell which belonged to which?) fought over nothing. Whereas with Harry and Hermionie, NOTHING was holding them apart from each other at school. Being both in Gryffindor,(Know that wasn't spelt right, too lazy to look it up) they had the same classes, the same common room - EVEN ATE AT THE SAME TABLE. NOTHING held them apart - yet theyboth chose not to act on this opprotunity. Care to explain why?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:50 AM  

  • Okay. First off, you can be a H/Hr shipper if you want. Go right ahead. However, J.K. Rowling isn't, so in the books, their relationship isn't going to happen. Write fanfiction or read it. Live in a fandom world. Don't insult JKR for writing her books her own way. A way that was planned and hinted about all along.

    Second of all, Romeo and Juliet? Not exactly the best example. The parallels just aren't there. At least not in the Harry Potter books I'm reading. And take it from a English Lit Major, you wouldn't H/Hr to have the kind of shallow flippant love that Romeo and Juliet had.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:51 AM  

  • OMG THIS COMPLETELY CONVINCED ME H/HR IS THE RIGHT SHIP IM REALLY SORRY ABOUT THAT POST IN YOUR LAST TOPIC AND ALL THE WORK IVE DONE AGAINST YOU AND SNOWY NOW I KNOW WHO THE REAL DELUSIONALS ARE(scroll down)












































































































    A definition for the REAL delusionals

    sarcasm:
    1.A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.
    2.A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:47 PM  

  • You are totally crazy. How on earth can you compare Shakespeare to JKR? Romeo and Juliet is completely different. JKR did not make this a tragedy, you ignorant little twerp. Harry and Hermione were not torn apart. Nothing separated them from getting together if they had wanted to. Get a life.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:00 PM  

  • j.l.m., it was a joke. It was sarcasm (thats why I put in the definition). I really am a proud leader of the good fight for sanity.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:06 PM  

  • Uhhhhhhhnnnnnnn...

    My brain turned into a mushy pumpkin that had been sitting on somebody's porch for over a year after I read that.

    misstrish, I am quite sure that this is not a joke and that some person needs to ignore the voices in his/her head.

    Just in case you hadn't noticed, this is REALITY...

    Delusion-City: Population: YOU.

    As everybody else has written...
    Shakespeare wrote novels? Or did he just write them in your dimension?

    You really should have listened to your therapist.

    Harry Potter is a fictional character. Without JK Rowling, there wouldn't be a condemned ship!
    Sometimes I want to drill a hole into your skull(s) and peak in just to see if you really can boast of posessing brain matter.

    Plus, I don't really see the Romeo and Juliet thing considering R&J fell in love instantly (they did not have six years to let it stew and then have the contents (so-called evidence) spill out from underneath them. Those damnable cauldron bottoms! And...they died. If you have been under the impression that Harry Potter is a romance story, I think that you need to rethink your ambitions... Maybe you should take reading comprehension over.

    Wow, vent, much?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:02 PM  

  • I have no intention of being rude towards all the Hermione/Harry shippers. Well, I also forgot to tell you I'm a bloody liar. I am appalled by the constant bitching and moaning about Harry and Hermione not hooking up together. It's gross. Is that all you can honestly think about? What about-oh I don't know this little insignificant war that's going on in the background with the death eaters and Voldemort or the fact that DUMBLEDORE is dead. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, he's dead and gone. Does that mean nothing to you? But wait, it gets even better. You have managed to turn Harry Potter into the National Inquirer with this. It's disgusting. And you began to call JKR hideous things. Do you honestly think you have the right to call her JRK and get away with it? I think not. How can you call her that when she created this world that you have absorbed yourselves in?

    This brings me to the next item on my list. The infamous interview, the thing that fed the fire to this dumb war. She didn't call you lot "delusional". Emerson did. So take that up with him. She said "Well no, I'm not going to - Emerson, I am not going to say they're delusional! They are still valued members of my readership! I am not going to use the word delusional."

    As for Ron and Hermione, the evidence is clear in book four. When Hermione was with Krum who was constantly green with jealously? Who? It was Ron and as for a movie example, when Buckbeak supposedly "died", Hermione leaned on Ron's shoulder. It's not condemning but the giddy giggle at the end of Book 2 where they couldn't bring themselves to hug each other convinced me.

    Your picture is horribly edited by the way. A sixth grader could do a better job than you did.

    Lovingly yours,

    Alexis

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:53 PM  

  • I'm sorry, but a lot of stuff dosn't make sense in this post:

    "Harry and Hermione, like their ancestors Romeo and Juliet, have been torn apart because of senseless greed and hate."

    Harry and Hermione are still best friends. They are not torn apart. And I don't see how any of this is caused by sensless greed and hate.

    "In Shakespeare's novel, the two "star-cross'd" lovers are forced to seperate because there is a plague on both their houses. In JRK's now-desecrated version, there is a similar - except positive - curse on Harry's house, which allows him to stay safely with the Durseley's. And, of course, Hermione is plagued in that she lives in a Muggle house. Talk about a plague on both houses!"

    There is no such thing as a positive curse. A curse is, by definition, negative. Since Hermione really dosn't mind that her parents are muggles, that's not much of a curse either.

    "Of course, this important similarity is minor compared to the main thematic singularity between them of TRAGEDY."

    I could write a very very long analysis of exactly how Harry Potter is not a tragedy (at least not yet, he could die in book 7) but I will spare everyone the agony of reading something that obvious. You clearly see it as a tragedy that H/H didn't happen, however, because the charachters in the story don't feel this way, the story is not a tragedy.

    "Harry and Hermione, True Lovers from the starting point they met one another, have only been able to blossom together for a very short period in time. Like Romeo and Juliet, everyone has been working against them being together, including Dumbledore and all others who have forced Harry to live away from Hermione, at the Durseley's, while she and Ron are put together every summer at the Burrow."

    Are you suggesting that Hermione come and live at the Dursley's house? Incidentally, she dosn't go to the burrow every Summer. In fact, she dosn't go there until the fourth book, in which Harry also goes there. In the sixth book Harry comes to the burrow very soon after Hermione. So it's really only the fith book in which Hermione is with Ron and not Harry for a large part of the Summer.

    "Like a burrowing mole, this plot has made an insidious and deep hole into the health of this young, volatile but passionate relationship. Trapped within these two opposing houses, one within the magical world and one within the human one, the two lovers can hardly ever even speak to one another. Like Romeo and Juliet using the Priest as a go-between messenger, Harry and Hermione have to use Hedwig."

    Once again what could be done about this. And Hedwig is a mail service not a person passing information. Not a strong comparison.

    "And in continuity with this point, Harry and Hermione are of course put into different dorms at Hogwarts, and their fellow students, in their immature teenagehood, selfishly conspire to attract them to themselves - much like the suiters after Romeo and Juliet."

    What on earth are you suggesting here? Of course they are in different dorms. They are opposite genders! They are still in the same house. And these other students who are "selfishly trying to attract them" are also in different dorms, mostly in different houses or even different schools!

    If this is a joke, I'm sorry, but I'm really thinking it isn't.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:35 PM  

  • You are all so unduly harsh on poor Pumpkinhead. He/She has never so much as insulted any of you and you all return his/her civility with nothing but rudeness. So what if PH gets mixed up about what genre of literature Shakespeare wrote? So what if the grammar in his posts is far from perfect? I find his points and purpose perfectly understandable and proper. All of you trolls should seek medical help to deal with your hostility issues.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:54 PM  

  • Oh. My. Gosh.

    Pumkinhead. If this is a joke, stop it. You've made it funny enough, but somehow I don't think it is a joke. If you're serious, please seek medical attention immediately.

    I don't think this point has been brought up (sorry if it has, I skim-read) but I noticed this part. "they're even in different dorm rooms!" He-llo? Boy. Girl. Different Dorms. OF COURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does that mean that since Ron and Harry are in the same dorm, they're in love? Geez.

    What part of "platonic love" don't you understand? I'm just laughing my head off right now.

    And yeah, I thought Shakespeare didn't have novels. AND I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTEED SHAKESPEARE YET!!!!!

    Well anyway, if this is a joke, stop it. You're about done with the hilarity. Unless you can come up with something even more funny!

    Cheers!
    -Ali

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:55 PM  

  • Dear SS,
    Please stop interfereing in things you know nothing about. If you read the bboks you would understand that:
    1. She never intended for Harry and Hermine to be together
    2. She is actually quite a good author.

    No Pumpkinhead doesn't insult us MUCH but his close supporter Snowy insults us far more than we insult Pumpkinhead. Please, please PLEASE read the books before supporting Pumpkinhead. If you dont want to buy them borrow them from the library. There quite good.

    sincerely yours,
    Coonskin 13

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:34 PM  

  • please dont ever give up.....

    this is just too funny!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:28 AM  

  • Wait, wait, wait...

    Three days ago, a gigantic ass hurricane (The biggest in recorded history) wiped through the South, displaced hundreds os thousands of people and destroyed one of America's most famous cities.

    And you're on your blog whining about a fictional non-canon relationship being a "tragedy."

    You must live a pretty sheltered life.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:06 AM  

  • (sighs)

    Well I've sent you an email Pumpkinhead, one can only hope you'll respnd. But in the mean time, here are three posts on this site that you are incapable of answering.

    The first is my original post.

    Well, firstly Snowy, I would like to point you in the direction of a petition gaining much more support than yours is achieving:

    http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/loyalty_to_emerson

    Check out the number of signatures, and the actual signature goal. That's right, a realistic target has been passed. The vast majority of signatures are actually SUPPORTING my petition.

    Now I know what you're going to say before you even say it. You will undoubtedly say something along the lines of "The proof is in the numbers, bucko" or something similar. Wrong.

    petition: A formal written request, esp. signed by many people , appealing to authority in some cause.

    Unfortunately, your petition does not apply to this rule for the "cause" of your petition, in other words the statement of your petition, is in fact generating a hell of a lot more abuse and mockery. In reality, the actual amount of GENUINE signatures that SUPPORT your petition still ranks below 100. Besides which, even IF you managed to get a million signatures, that STILL would not be enough. The Harry Potter Series has a LOT more fans than that. HBP did get distributed in what I think was 47 countries after all.

    Here, I am now going to deconstruct the moronic statement of your petition:

    "We, the undersigned, hereby petition Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author of the Harry Potter book series, to immediately apologize for her remarks included in the interview conducted by Emerson of MuggleNet and Melissa of The Leaky Cauldron, in particular the following words:

    "Yes, we do now know that it's Ron and Hermione." "

    This is not the only time that JKR has hinted at the Heron ship being the one that would sail. She also mentioned that Harry and Hermione were very "platonic" friends. Platonic means non-sexual. Plus, there is that ANVIL-SIZED quote that appears in Goblet of Fire in which Harry denies "very firmly" that he fancies Hermione. Even if you don't believe in the Heron ship, that quote alone should have at least given you the sign that Harry/Hermione would never happen. Also, there is the tons of evidence provided by Mina, a lot of which you STILL have not deconstructed. Where are those further "deconstructions" hmm? Did you give up after it turned out that people were deconstructing your deconstructions of the Heron evidence, but no-one was able to deconstruct the deconstructions of your pathetic so-called Harmony evidence that you provided?

    "In addition, we strongly DEMAND that Joanne Kathleen Rowling apologize for laughing at the term "delusional," as it was applied to the millions of Harry/Hermione shippers throughout the world."
    Millions? Hardly. I think you'll find, based on the evidence of the large Heron support in your petition, the Loyalty to Emerson petition, and the Crazy Shipper Ban petition, that Harmony shippers are horribly outnumbered ever since HBP. And she wasn't laughing at the term "delusional", she was laughing at Emerson. After all, Emerson's attitude is "If you don't like it, get off my site." What makes Mugglenet so successful is that while it is the biggest provider of Harry Potter related news, it also reflects the personal opinions of those who write for Mugglenet: that is to say the people who write the editorials, and Emerson himself.

    "We also petition Joanne Kathleen Rowling to rectify the situation in Book 7, clearing up any questions the few Ron/Hermione shippers (the truly "delusional" ones) floating around might have about the one true romantic relationship that matters in the Harry Potter books, that of Harry and Hermione. "

    Have you actually read the book? If you had then you would realise that Heron shippers are not delusional, for it was Ron/Hermione that happened, not Harry/Hermione. You've provided pitifully little Harry/Hermione, where as we truly SANE fans in The Good Fight For Sanity have come up with TONS of evidence. Also, Harry Potter is by no means a romantic novel. Au contraire, the main focus of the books is Harry's continuing battle with Lord Voldemort. The romance in the books is little more than a subplot, rather much like Quidditch, and the lessons which the students take.

    But then again, what would you know about the books? If I may recall, one of your posts on your petition stated that your beliefs are not based on the books, but the MOVIES, saying, and I quote: "Dan and Emma would look so much more cute together" If this was a petition to get Dan and Emma together in REAL LIFE, then you may have a point. After all, lots of examples exist of film couples who have worked together: Tim Burton and Helen Bonham Carter (Charlie and The Chocolate Factory), Johnny Depp used to go out with Winona Ryder (and they did "Edward Scissorhands"), Tom Cruise used to date Nicole Kidman (and they did "Eyes Wide Shut") and of course, there is the "Will they? Won't they?" of Hollywood, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (Mr and Mrs Smith). However, we're not talking about Dan and Emma, we're talking about Harry and Hermione, and you are still yet to provide solid evidence for the existence of Harry/Hermione.

    "Otherwise, we have no choice but to ban Book 7 when it comes out. As the millions of Harry/Hermione shippers are the only "true" fans of the Harry Potter book series, this action will seriously affect books sales, and will undoubtedly force Bloomsbury and Scholastic to reconsider any future Harry Potter publications."

    This bit is just hilarious. Please learn some grammar lessons: it's BOYCOTT not BAN. And those who are asking JKR to change her books are "true fans"? To quote Dr. Evil: "Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggghhhhhhhhhhttttttttttt" Also, what "future Harry Potter publications" do you speak of? In case you haven't noticed, Harry Potter 7 will the last book in the series, and unless JKR decides to release a HP Encyclopaedia (which is highly unlikely considering that detailed HP encyclopaedias already exist on the internet (see Lexicon, Mugglenet, or Wikipedia)), after HP7 there will simply be the movies that will need to happen and then that's it. JKR can put her feet up and have a well deserved rest. Of course, the books will still be open for debate even AFTER they have finished, such will be it's great legacy.

    If you are really wanting a romantic novel, then I suggest that you stop disgracing the internet with your laughable delusions and that you read books by the Brontes, stuff like Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights and Emma. Or if you want something more recent, try His Dark Materials. It fits in with your whole "The Hero and the Heroine find love with each other" logic.

    Now, compare your petition statement, with mine:

    "Shortly after the release of the sixth book in the Harry Potter series: Half Blood Prince, two people, representing two different websites: Mugglenet and The Leaky Cauldron, were lucky enough to interview the great Joanne Kathleen Rowling herself. During the interview, humourous banter was exchanged, particularly on the subject of shippers. Unfortunately, a misinterpretation of the word "delusional" used during the interview led to a petition and an angry web page being created by Otter Snow, or Snowy if you prefer. Otter Snow is a Harry/Hermione shipper who was furious that this ship did not sail in HBP. Her fury can be seen here:

    http://www.geocities.com/otter_snow/ULTIMATE_BETRAYAL

    and of course here:

    http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ultimate_betrayal

    But Otter Snow is not the only hostile Harry/Hermione shipper (or "Harmony" shippers if you prefer). There is of course Pumpkinhead, and his site:

    http://harryandhermione4ever.blogspot.com

    Pumpkinhead's resentment of Miss Rowling even stretches to calling her JRK. He, like Otter Snow, is incapable of using decent facts to support his evidence. Instead, he focuses on the so-called "travesty" that "one of the greatest love stories has not been told".

    What both Otter Snow and Pumpkinhead fail to realise is that the Harry Potter series is not, and never will be, centred on the romance. So much more important things happened in HBP, such as the death of an extremely important character, and the issue of whether Severus Snape is truly evil. So to vent anger and abuse at Miss Rowling simply because two characters did not end up together is utterly pathetic.

    Anyway, what with abuse raining in on Miss Rowling and Emerson, we now feel that the time is right to show undying support and loyalty for Mugglenet, a site fronted by Emerson, who actually manages to be extremely funny. And of course the time is right also to pledge support for Miss Rowling in her writing of the books, and of course, support for Book 7.

    Therefore, we the undersigned pledge full loyalty to Emerson and to Miss Rowling.

    Thank you."

    No grammatical errors, no unrealistic aims, hardly any abuse in response, and most importantly, the petition has passed its signature goal of 100 (a realistic target), and still it continues to grow.

    Finally, a haiku.

    Face it, you're losing,

    Sanity's going to triumph,

    Leave while you still can.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:23 AM  

  • - Also, at the end of Book 4, Hermione kisses Harry on the cheek but she once again refrains with Ron. This obviously means there is some sort of tension between the two.
    - When Harry sees Hermione at the Yule Ball and doesn't recognise her, it is because she looks pretty. He finds her attractive FOR ONCE. She is never described favourably again.
    - When Malfoy calls Hermione a mudblood for the first time in CoS, Ron does that spell on him that then backfires and makes him "eat slugs". He reacted the strongest of all to this insult, throwing himself at Malfoy in an attempt to hurt him.
    - Hermione and Ron bicker ALL THE TIME in the last few books. If this is not hate/LOVELOVELOVE relationship, then what is? Remember what movie!Snape says to Lupin and Sirius? "Well, well, well, bickering like an old married couple".
    - I believe JKR gave the film makers, particularly Alfonso Cuaron, some insider details for what was yet to come in the books, especially Ron/Hermione. For example, when Harry is approaching Buckbeak, that famous grabbing for Ron's hand that Hermione exhibits? She is embarassed, he is embarrassed, they look away from eachother and even step away. Grabbing for somebody's hand if they are just a friend to you means nothing! You can do it rather easily in fact. But she did it without thinking. And when the three of them see Buckbeak getting his head chopped off, Hermione does that weird sultry putting her arms round Ron, and it is Harry who is forced to try and join the embrace. She is turning to Ron for comfort involuntarily. How lovely.

    Some quotes...

    "You will find that Madam Pomfrey is still awake. She's just giving out Mandrake juice - I daresay the Basilisk's victims will be waking up any moment." [Dumbledore]
    "So Hermione's OK!" said Ron brightly. - CoS

    "Hermione!" Ron groaned (when he saw her petrified).
    -It isn't Harry who reacts, it's Ron, and we see how upset he is.

    "Bet you five Galleons the next one dies. Pity it wasn't Granger -"
    The bell rang at that moment, which was lucky; at Malfoy's last words, Ron had leapt off his stool, and in the scramble to collect bags and books, his attempts to reach Malfoy went unnoticed.
    "Let me at him," Ron growled as Harry and Dean hung onto his arms. "I don't care, I don't need my wand, I'm going to kill him with my bare hands -"
    - Ron is completely enraged, but Harry doesn't react other than to hold him back.

    Ron read the message, swallowed hard, and looked sideways at the empty seat usually filled by Hermione. The sight seemed to stiffen his resolve, and he nodded.
    -The fact Hermione is no longer there makes him want to go find the spiders, the things he hates above all others.

    ".. Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all."
    Hermione went very red, put down her hand and stared at the floor with her eyes full of tears. It was a mark of how much the class loathed Snape that they were all glaring at him, because very one of them has called Hermione a know-it-all at least once, and Ron, who told Hermione she was a know-it-all at least twice a week, said loudly, "You asked us a question, and she knows the answer! Why ask if you don't want to be told?" - PoA

    Harry was still thinking about what Malfoy said, while Ron was seething about Snape (for taking five points from Gryffindor because Hermione helped Neville.)
    - STILL seething, really. He is obsessed...

    "You don't think Malfoy did something to her (Hermione)?" Ron said anxiously as they hurried upstairs toward Gryffindor Tower.
    - Worried, how touching.

    Hermione flung her arms around Ron's neck and broke down completely. Ron, looking quite terrified, patted her very awkwardly on the top of the head. Finally, Hermione drew away.
    "Ron, I'm really, really sorry about Scabbers ..." she sobbed.
    "Oh-well-he was old," said Ron, looking thoroughly relieved that she had let go of him. "And he was a bit useless. You never know, Mum and Dad might get me an owl now."
    - This is sexual tension- if you fancy someone and they throw themselves on you it's a bit awkward, and he tries to deal with her in the best way he can, which is not very effectively.

    "If you think they can't spot a Mudblood, stay where you are." [Malfoy]
    "You watch your mouth!" shouted Ron. Everybody present knew that 'Mudblood' was a very offensive term for a witch or wizard of Muggle parentage.
    "Never mind, Ron," said Hermione quickly, seizing Ron's arm to restrain him as he took a step towards Malfoy. - GoF.
    - Again, trying to protect Hermione (see previous 'mudblood' evidence).

    "I hope the others are okay," said Hermione after a while.
    "They'll be fine," said Ron.
    (and then...)
    "Those poor Muggles, though," said Hermione nervously. "What if they can't get them down?"
    "They will," said Ron reassuringly. "They'll find a way."
    - He's making her feel better, constantly (well, twice) reassuring her.

    "Look," said Hermione patiently (to Harry), "it's always you who gets all the attention, you know it is. I know it's not your fault," she added quickly, seeing Harry open his mouth furiously. "I know you don't ask for it...but--well--you know, Ron's got all those brothers to compete against at home, and you're his best friend, and you're really famous--he's always shunted to one side whenever people see you, and he puts up with it, and he never mentions it, but I suppose this is just one time too many...."
    - This just goes to show how much Hermione knows and understands Ron.

    ...Hermione, whimpering in panic was clutching her mouth.
    "Hermione!"
    Ron had hurried forward to see what was wrong with her; Harry turned and saw Ron dragging Hermione's hand away from her face.
    - Where is Harry in all this? It's his fault she got hurt, for pity's sake.

    "Can't you think of anyone who'd go with Ron?" he said, lowering his voice so that Ron wouldn't hear.
    "What about Hermione Granger?" said Parvati.
    - I've always liked Parvati...

    All the good-looking ones taken, Ron?" said Hermione loftily. "Eloise Midgen starting to look quite pretty now, is she? Well, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who'll have you."
    But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
    "Hermione, Neville's right -- you are a girl . . ."
    "Oh well spotted," she said acidly.
    Well -- you can come with one of us!"
    "No, I can't," snapped Hermione.
    "Oh come on," he said impatiently, "we need partners, we're going to look really stupid if we haven't got any, everyone else has . . ."
    "I can't come with you," said Hermione, now blushing, "because I'm already going with someone."
    "No, you're not!" said Ron. "You just said that to get rid of Neville!"
    "Oh did I?" said Hermione, and her eyes flashed dangerously. "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!"
    Ron stared at her. Then he grinned again.
    - She seems quite hurt that it took him so long to finally think of her as a date.

    "Hermione -- who are you going to the ball with?" said Ron.
    He kept springing this question on her, hoping to startle her into a response by asking it when she least expected it.
    - Why is he so bothered?

    Hermione came over and sat down in Parvati's empty chair. She was a bit pink in the face from dancing.
    "Hi," said Harry. Ron didn't say anything.
    "It's hot, isn't it?" said Hermione, fanning herself with her hand. "Viktor's just gone to get some drinks."
    Ron gave her a withering look. "Viktor?" he said. "Hasn't he asked you to call him Vicky yet?"
    Hermione looked at him in surprise. "What's up with you?" she said.
    "If you don't know," said Ron scathingly, "I'm not going to tell you."
    Hermione stared at him, then at Harry, who shrugged.
    "Ron, what --?"
    "He's from Durmstrang!" spat Ron. "He's competing against Harry! Against Hogwarts! You -- you're --" Ron was obviously casting around for words strong enough to describe Hermione's crime, "fraternising with the enemy, that's what you're doing!"
    Hermione's mouth fell open.
    "Don't be so stupid!" she said after a moment. "The enemy! Honestly -- who was the one who was all excited when they saw him arrive? Who was the one who wanted his autograph? Who's got a model of him up in their dormitory?"
    Ron chose to ignore this. "I s'pose he asked you to come with him while you were both in the library?"
    "Yes, he did," said Hermione, the pink patches on her cheeks glowing more brightly. "So what?"
    "What happened -- trying to get him to join spew, were you?"
    "No, I wasn't! If you really want to know, he -- he said he'd been coming up to the library every day to try and talk to me, but he hadn't been able to pluck up the courage!"
    Hermione said this very quickly, and blushed so deeply that she was the same color as Parvati's robes.
    "Yeah, well -- that's his story," said Ron nastily.
    "And what's that supposed to mean?"
    "Obvious, isn't it? He's Karkaroff's student, isn't he? He knows who you hang around with . . . He's just trying to get closer to Harry -- get inside information on him -- or get near enough to jinx him --"
    Hermione looked as though Ron had slapped her. When she spoke, her voice quivered.
    "For your information, he hasn't asked me one single thing about Harry, not one --"
    ". . .Why don't you go and find Vicky, he'll be wondering where you are," said Ron.
    "Don't call him Vicky!"
    Hermione jumped to her feet and stormed off across the dance floor, disappearing into the crowd. Ron watched her go with a mixture of anger and satisfaction on his face.
    "Are you going to ask me to dance at all?" Padma asked him.
    "No," said Ron, still glaring after Hermione.
    -A long quote, but it makes my point doesn't it? Ron is on a date with a very pretty girl, one of the prettiest in the year by all accounts, but he is hankering after Hermione. Ron used to be a BIG fan of Krum's, but not anymore. He accuses Krum of following Hermione around just to get to Harry, and this must hurt Hermione's feelings somewhat. In fact, she looks as though she has been 'slapped' by Ron's harsh words.

    [After Krum jumps into the lake]
    "It's a lot colder where he comes from," said Hermione. "I suppose it feels quite warm to him."
    "Yeah, but there's still the giant squid," said Ron. He didn't sound anxious - if anything, he sounded hopeful. Hermione noticed his tone of voice, and frowned.
    "He's really nice, you know," she said. "He's not at all like you'd think, coming from Durmstrang. He likes it much better here, he told me."
    Ron said nothing. He hadn't mentioned Viktor Krum since the ball, but Harry had found a miniature arm under his bed on Boxing Day, which looked very much as though it had been snapped of a small model figure wearing Bulgaria Quidditch robes.
    - Woah! Suddenly he hates the guy?

    'There's something funny, though,' said Hermione ten minutes later, holding her pestle suspended over a bowl of scarab beetles. 'How could Rita Skeeter have known ...?'
    'Known what?' said Ron quickly. 'You haven't been mixing up Love potions, have you?'
    'Don't be stupid,' Hermione snapped, starting to pound up her beetles again. 'No, it's just ... how did she know Viktor asked me to visit him over the summer?'
    Hermione blushed scarlet as she said this, and determinedly avoided Ron's eyes.
    (Notice it's RON'S eyes she's avoiding?!)
    'What?' said Ron, dropping his pestle with a loud clunk.
    'He asked me right after he's pulled me out of the lake,' Hermione muttered. 'After he'd got rid of his shark's head. Madam Pomfrey gave us both blankets and then he sort of pulled me away from the judges so they wouldn't hear, and he said, if I wasn't doing anything over the summer, would I like to -'
    'And what did you say?' said Ron, who had picked up his pestle and was grinding it on the desk, a good six inches from his bowl, because he was looking at Hermione.
    'And he did say he'd never felt the same way about anyone else,' Hermione went on, going so red now that Harry could almost feel the heat coming from her, 'but how could Rita Skeeter have heard him? She wasn't there ... or was she? Maybe she has got an Invisibility Cloak, maybe she sneaked into the grounds to watch the second task ...'
    'And what did you say?' Ron repeated, pounding his pestle down so hard that it dented the desk.
    'Well, I was too busy seeing whether you and Harry were OK to -'
    - Seems to be quite bothered whether she's seeing Krum again or not, doesn't he? And bothered about what she said.

    "And he sneaked up here to search Snape's office!" said Ron triumphantly, looking at Hermione.
    - Triumphantly? He's trying to impress her?

    "You only liked him [Lockhart] because he's handsome," said Ron scathingly.
    "Excuse me, I don't like people just because they're handsome!" said Hermione indignantly.
    - Ron is acting jealous here, perhaps because he is not handsome and therefore thinks Hermione will not like him. Is Hermione reassuring him?

    Hermione told Harry that it would do him good to get away from the castle for a bit, and Harry didn't need each persuasion.
    "What about Ron, though?" he said. "Don't you want to go with him?"
    "Oh ... well..." Hermione went slightly pink. "I thought we might meet up with him in the Three Broomsticks..."
    "No," said Harry flatly.
    - This doesn't say TOO much, but the way Harry said it - "Don't you want to go with him?" - sounds almost like "I thought you preferred to be with him." Hermione just might've got the wrong idea when he said it and blushed.

    Thanks," she (Parvati) said. "Padma's going to meet you in the entrance hall," she added to Ron.
    "Right," said Ron, looking around. "Where's Hermione?"
    "Where is Hermione?" he said again.
    - This happens throughout the period just before the Yule Ball, during the Yule Ball and after. Ron is constantly pressing Hermione's personal life, particularly whom she is going to the Yule Ball with. Hallo, he's about to go on his first date with a girl, and all he can think of is her!

    Ron, however, walked right past Hermione without looking at her. [when she comes out with Krum]
    - Ron shows that he is VERY jealous, and does a terrible job at concealing it.

    "Well, if you don't like it, you know what the solution is, don't you?" yelled Hermione; her hair was coming down out of its elegant bun now, and her face was screwed up in anger.
    "Oh yeah?" Ron yelled back. "What's that?"
    "Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does and not as a last resort!"
    Ron mouthed soundlessly like a goldfish out of water as Hermione turned on her heel and stormed up the girls' staircase to bed. Ron turned to look at Harry. "Well," he spluttered, looking thunderstruck, "well - that just proves - completely missed the point-"
    Harry didn't say anything. He liked being back on speaking terms with Ron too much to speak his mind right now - but he somehow thought that Hermione had got the point much better than Ron had.
    - This is as good as any line that tell us Hermione likes Ron. "Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does and not as a last resort!" tells the reader that she's hurt that he hadn't approached her first, and that she has feelings for him.

    Krum had come to say Goodbye to Hermione.
    "Could i have a vord?" he asked her.
    "Oh...yes...all right," said Hermione, looking slightly flustered, followed Krum
    through the crowd and out of sight. "You'd better hurry up!" Ron called loudly after her. "The carriages'll be here in a minute!"
    He let Harry keep a watch for the carriages, however, and spent the next few minutes craning his neck over the crown to try and see what Krum and Hermione might be up to. They returned quite soon. Ron stared at Hermione, but her face was impassive.
    - Ron wants to know what is going on. Harry doesn't care.

    "And you, too - you 'elped-" [Fleur]
    "Yeah," said Ron, looking extremely hopeful, "yeah, a bit-"
    Fleur swooped down on him, too, and kissed him. Hermione looked simply furious.
    - Hermione isn't furious that Fleur kissed Harry, is she? Only when it's Ron.

    "We will see each uzzer again, I 'ope," said Fleur, as she reached him, holding out her hand. "I am 'oping to get a job 'ere, to improve my Eenglish."
    "It's very good already," said Ron, in a strangled sort of voice. Fleur smiled at him; Hermione scowled.
    - And again with the not liking Ron fancying Fleur.

    "Who're you writing the novel to, anyway?"
    "Viktor."
    "Krum?"
    "How many other Viktors do we know?
    Ron said nothing, but looked disgruntled. - OotP
    Um, it's just because it's 'Vicky' that he's angry.

    "What does she see in Krum?" Ron demanded, as he and Harry climbed the boys' stairs.
    ------»
    "Yeah, but apart from that," said Ron, sounding aggravated. "I mean, he's a grouchy git, isn't he?"
    - Ron is angry and frustrated at Hermione liking Krum.

    (About Christmas presents) "... and that perfume's really unusual, Ron."
    - Harry gets Hermione a book, something rather impersonal but fitting for someone who likes to read. A perfect present from a friend. Poor, sweet Ron gets her some perfume- something girly, but not really suited for a girl he is trying to impress. It's also the sort of thing a boyfriend would give to his girlfriend.

    "No problem," said Ron. "Who's that for anyway?" he added ...
    - Right after Hermione thanks Ron for giving her the perfume, he, embarrassed, turns the attention onto something else, feeling awkward that Harry is witnessing this and seeing his gift.

    "Good luck, Ron," said Hermione, standing on tiptoe and kissing him on the cheek. "And you, Harry-"
    Ron seemed to come to himself slightly as they walked back across the Great Hall. He touched the spot on his face where Hermione had kissed him, looking puzzled as though he was not sure what had just happened.
    - There is a moment in the books where Hermione kisses Harry goodbye for the holidays, and he thinks nothing of it. In fact, it is not mentioned again in the next paragraph. Because it means nothing. When Hermione kisses Ron on the cheek, he touches the spot, and JK devotes a paragraph to this. Dropping ANVIL SIZED HINTS once again. He's thinking, "Am I just dreaming or did Hermione really kiss me on the cheek?"

    Ron was looking at Hermione suspiciously.
    "You're not still in contact with him [Krum] are you?"
    "So what if I am?" said Hermione coolly, though her face was a little pink. "I can have a pen pal if I --"
    "He didn't only want to be your pen pal," said Ron accusingly.
    Hermione shook her head exasperatedly and ignored Ron, who was continuing to watch her.
    - Ron is 'accusing' towards Hermione concerning Krum. Harry just doesn't care at all.

    "Are you that bad at kissing?" [Ron]
    "Dunno," said Harry, who hadn't considered this, and immediately felt rather worried. "Maybe I am."
    "Of course you're not," said Hermione absently, still scribbling away at her letter.
    "How do you know?" said Ron very sharply. - page 405
    This goes back to Ron's jealousy again. At Hermione's remark that Harry is not bad at kissing, Ron tenses up assuming that perhaps Hermione has been kissing Harry, and that certainly will not do.

    "How would it be ... if I refused to lend you my notes this year?" - Hermione
    "We'd fail our OWL," said Ron. "If you want that on your conscience, Hermione ..."
    "Well, you'd deserve it," she snapped. "You don't even try to listen to him, do you?"
    "We do try," said Ron. "We just haven't got your brains or your memory or your concentration - you're just cleverer than we are - is it nice to rub it in?"
    "Oh don't give me that rubbish," said Hermione, but she looked slightly mollified.
    - She likes his compliments, and let's be honest, what girl wouldn't like her crush complimenting her?

    [Still in Potions class, after Slughorn realises that Harry's "best friend [who] is Muggle-born and the best in the year" is Hermione.] Hermione turned to Harry with a radiant expression and whispered, "Did you really tell him I'm the best in the year? Oh, Harry!"
    "Well, what's so impressive about that?" whispered Ron, who for some reason looked annoyed. "You are the best in the year - I'd've told him so if he'd asked me!" (HBP)
    -Ron is jealous and annoyed at Hermione's response.

    "You can still see where those brains got hold of me in the Ministry, look," said Ron, shaking back his sleeves.
    "And it doesn't hurt that you've grown about a foot over the summer, either," Hermione finished, ignoring Ron."
    "I'm tall," said Ron inconsequentially.
    - Ron's obviously trying to impress Hermione, showing his scars and his height. It's cute.

    What did surprise [Harry] was that when Ron drew level with them, Parvati suddenly nudged Lavender, who looked round and gave Ron a wide smile. Ron blinked at her, then returned the smile uncertainly. His walk instantly became something more like a strut. (...) Hermione, however, looked cold and distant all the way down to the stadium through the cool, misty drizzle, and departed to find a place in the stands without wishing Ron good luck.
    -Hermione's jealous!

    "You did brilliantly, Ron!"
    This time it really was Hermione running towards them from the stands; Harry saw Lavender walking off the pitch, arm in arm with Parvati, a rather grump expression on her face. Ron looked extremely pleased with himself and even taller than usual as he grinned around at the team and at Hermione.
    - Ron loves Hermione's attention, and Hermione is quick to establish the fact that Ron is "hers" to Lavender, who doesn't react well.

    [Hermione says] "Ron, what are you staring at?"
    "Nothing," said Ron, hastily looking away from the bar, but Harry knew he was trying to catch the eye of the curvy and attractive barmaid, Madam Rosmerta, for who he had long nursed a soft spot.
    "I expect 'nothing''s in the back getting more Firewhiskey," said Hermione waspishly.
    - Hermione's reply shows she is peeved with Ron eyeballing some other woman when she's around.

    Harry groaned. Ron, meanwhile, who was attempting to burst the pod in the bowl by putting both hands on it, standing up and squashing it as hard as he could, said angrily, "And this is another party just for Slughorn's favourites, is it?"
    "Just for the Slug Club, yes," said Hermione.
    The pod flew out from under Ron's fingers and hit the greenhouse glass, rebounding on to the back of Professor Sprout's head and knocking off her old patched hat. Harry went to retrieve the pod; when he got back, Hermione was saying, "Look, I didn't make up the name 'Slug Club'-"
    "'Slug Club'," repeated Ron with a sneer worthy of Malfoy. It's pathetic. Well, I hope you enjoy your party. Why don't you try getting off with McLaggen, then Slughorn can make you King and Queen Slug-"
    "We're allowed to bring guests," said Hermione, who for some reason had turned a bright, boiling scarlet, "an I was going to ask you to come, but if you think it's that stupid then I won't bother!"
    Harry suddenly wished the pod had flown a little further so that he need not have been sitting there with the pair of them. Unnoticed by either, he seized the bowl that contained the pod and began to try and open it by the noisiest and most energetic means he could think of; unfortunately, he coul still hear every word of their conversation.
    "You were going to ask me?" asked Ron, in a completely different voice.
    "Yes," said Hermione angrily, "But obviously if you'd rather I get off with McLaggen ..."
    There was a pause while Harry continued to pound the resilient pod with a trowel.
    "No, I wouldn't," said Ron, in a very quiet voice.
    Harry missed the pod, hit the bowl, and it shattered.
    "Reparo," he said hastily, poking the pieces with his wand, and the bowl sprang back together again. The crash, however, appeared to have woken Ron and Hermione to Harry's presence. Hermione looked flustered and immediately started fussing about for her copy of Flesh-Eating Trees of the World to find out the correct way to juice Snargaluff pods; Ron, on the other hand, looked sheepish but also rather pleased with himself.
    "Hand that over, Harry," said Hermione hurriedly, "it says we're supposed to puncture them with something sharp."
    Harry possed her the pod in the bowl, he and Ron both snapped their goggles back over their eyews and dived, once more, for the stump.
    It was not as though he was really surprise, thought Harry, as he wrestles with a thorny vine intent upon throttling him; he had had an inkling that this might happen sooner or later. But he was not sure how he felt about it ... he and Cho were now too embarassed to look at each other, let alone talk to each other; what if Ron and Hermione started going out together, then split up? Could their friendship survive it? Harry remembered the few weeks they had not been talking to each other in the third year; he had not enjoyed trying to bridge the distance between them. And the, what if they didn't split up? What if they became like Bill and Fleur, and it became excruciatingly embarassing to be in their presence, so that he was shut out for good?
    "Gotcha!" yelled Ron, pulling a second pod from the stump just as Hermione managed to burst the first one opem, so that the bowl was full of tubers wriggling like pale green worms.
    The rest of the lesson passed without further mention of Slughorn's party. Although Harry watched his two friends more closely over the next few days, Ron and Hermione did not seem any different except that they were a little politer to each other than usual. Harry supposed he would just have to wait to see what happened under the influence of Butterbeer in Slughorn's dimly lit room on the night of the party.
    - Doesn't this make you want to CRY? I'm so glad it happened. This just killed me. Harry can bloody see it, he always knew it would happen. That bit where he says he isn't sure how he feels about it, it isn't because he is jealous, it's because they could possibly break up.

    "D'you think Hermione did snog Krum? Ron asked abruptly, as they approached the fat lady. Harry gave a guilty start and wrenched his imagination away from a corridor in which no Ron intruded, in which he and Ginny were quite alone-
    "What?" he said confusedly. "Oh ... er ..."
    The honest answer was 'yes,' but he did not want to give it. However, Ron seemed to gather the worst from the look on Harry's face.
    "Dilligrout," he said darkly to the Fat Lady, and they climbed through the portrait hole into the common room.
    - This matters a lot to Ron, duh.

    "You added Felix Felicis to Ron's juice this morning, that's why he saved everything! See! I can save goals without help, Hermione!"
    "I never said you couldn't-Ron, you thought you'd been given it, too!"
    But Ron had already strode past her out of the door with his broomstick over his shoulder.
    "Er," said Harry into the sudden silence; he had not expected his plan to backfire like this, "shall ... shall we go up to the party, then?"
    "You go!" said Hermione, blinking back tears. "I'm sick of Ron at the moment, I don't know what I'm supposed to have done ... "
    And she storem out of the changing room, too.
    Harry walked slowly back up to the grounds toward the castle through the crowd, many of whom shouted congratulations at him, but he felt a great sense of let-down; he had been sure that if Ron won the match, he and Hermione would be friends again immediately. He did not see how he could explain to Hermione that what she had done to offend Ron was kiss Viktor Krum, not when the offence had occured so long ago.

    Harry looked into the corner she was indicating. There, in full view of the whole room, stood Ron wrapped so closely around Lavender Brown it was hard to tell whose hands were whose.
    "It looks like he's eating her face, doesn't it?" said Ginny dispassionately. "But I suppose he's got to refine his technique somehow. Good game, Harry."
    She patted him on the arm; Harry felt a swooping sensation in his stomach, but then she walked off to help herself to more Butterbeer. Crookshanks trotted after her, his yellow eyes fixed upon Arnold.
    Harry turned away from Ron, who did not look like surfacing soon, just in time to see the portrait hole closing. With a sinking feeling he thought he saw a mane of bushy brown hair whipping out of sight.
    He darted forwards, sidestepping Romilda Vane again, and pushed open the prtrait of the Fat lady. The corridor outside seemed to be deserted.
    "Hermione?"
    He found her in the first unlocked classroom he tried. She was sitting on the teacher's desk, alone except for a small ring of twittering yellow birds circling her head, which she had clearly just conjured out of midair. Harry could not help admiring her spellwork at a time like this.
    "Oh, hello, Harry," she said in a brittle voice. "I was just practising."
    "Yeah ... they're - er - really good ..." said Harry.
    He had no idea what to say to her. He was just wondering whether there was any chance that she had not seen Ron, that she had merely left the room because the partu was a little too rowdy, when she said, in an unnaturally high-pitched voice, "Ron seems to be enjoying the celebrations."
    "Er ... does he?" said Harry.
    "Don't pretend you didn't see him," said Hermione. "He wasn't exactly hiding it, was -"
    The door behind them burst open. To Harry's horror, Ron came in, laughing, pulling Lavender by the hand.
    "Oh," he said, drawing up short at the sight of Harry and Hermione.
    "Oops!" said Lavender, and she backed out of the room giggliing. The door swung shut behind her.
    There was a horrible swelling, billowing silence. Hermione was staring at Ron, who refused to look at her, but said with an odd mixture of bravado and awkwardness, "Hi, Harry! Wondered where you'd got to!"
    Hermione slid off the desk. The little flock of golden birds continued to twitter in circles around her head so that she looked like a strange, feathery model of the solar system.
    "You shouldn't leave Lavender waiting outside," she said quietly. "She'll wonder where you've gone."
    She walked very slowly and erectly towards the door. Harry glanced at Ron, who was looking relieved that nothing worse had happened.
    "Oppugno!" came a shriek from the doorway.
    Harry spun round to see Hermione pointing her want at Ron, her expression wold; the little flock of birds was speeding like a hail of fat golden bullets towards Ron, who yelped and covered his face with his hands, but the birds attacked, pecking and clawing at every bit of flesh they could reach.
    "Gerremoffme! he yelled, but with one last look of vindictive fury, Hermione wrenched open the door and disappeared through it. Harry though he heard a sob before it slammed.
    - Oh, poor, wronged Hermione.

    Ron, whose hands still bore scratches and cuts from Hermione's bird attack, was taking a defensive and resentful tone.
    "She can't complain," he told Harry. "She snogged Krum. So she found out someone who wants to snog me, too. Well, it's a free country. I haven't done anything wrong."
    "Harry did not answer, but pretended to be absorbed in the book the were supposed to have read before Charms the following morning (Quintessence: A Quest). Determined as he was to remain friends with both Ron and Hermione, he was spending a lot of time with his mouth shut tight.
    "I never promised Hermione anything," Ron mumbled. "I mean, all right, I was going to go to Slughorn's party with her, but she never said ... just as friends ... I'm a free agent ..."
    Harry turned a page of Quintessence, aware that Ron was watching him. Ron's voice tailed away in mutters, barely audible over the loud crackling of the fire, though Harry thought he caught the words 'Krum' and 'can't complain' again.
    Hermione's timetable was so full that Harry could only talk to her properly in the evenings, when Ron was in any case so tighly wrapped around Lavender that he did not notice what Harry was doing. Hermione refused to sit in the common room while Ron was there, which meant that their conversations were held in whispers.
    "He's at perfect liberty to kiss whomever he likes," said Hermione, while the librarian, Madame Pince, proled the shelves behind them. "I really couldn't care less."
    She raised her quill and dotted and 'i' so ferociously that she punctured a hole in her parchment.

    "Told you," said Hermione succintly. "Sooner you ask someone, sooner you they'll all leave you alone and you cam-"
    But her face suddenly turned blank; she had just spotted Ron and Lavender who were entwined in the same armchair.
    "Well, goodnight, Harry," said Hermione, though it was only seven o'clock in the evening, and she left for the girls' dormitory without another word.

    "... oh, hi, Hermione!"
    Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes.
    "Hi, Parvati!" said Hermione, ingnoring Ron and Lavender completely. "Are you going to Slughorn's party tonight?"
    "No invite," said Parvati gloomily. "I'd love to go, though, it sounds like it's going to be really good .. you're going, aren't you?"
    "Yes, I'm meeting Cormac at eight and we're-"
    There was a noise like a plunger being withdrawn from a blocked sink and Ron surfaces. Hermione actes as though she had not seen or heard anything.
    "-we're going up to the party together."
    "Cormac?" said Parvati. "Cormac McLaggen, you mean?"
    "That's right," said Hermione sweetly. "The one who almost" she put a great deal of emphasis on the word, "became Gryffindor keeper."
    "Are you going out with him, then?" asked Parvati, wide-eyed.
    "Oh - yes - didn't you know?" said Hermione, with a most un-Hermione-ish giggle.
    "No!" said Parvati, looking positively agog at this piece of gossip. "Wow, you like your Quidditch players, don't you? First Krum, then McLaggen ..."
    "I like really good Quidditch players," Hermione corrected her, still smiling. "Well, see you ... got to go and get ready for the party ..."
    She left. At once Lavender and Parvati put their heads together to discuss this new developement, with everything they had ever heard about McLaggen and all they had ever guessed about Hermione. Ron looked strangely blank and said nothing. Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.
    - Jealous much?

    "Serves you right for coming with him [McLaggen]." he [Harry] told her severely.
    "I thought he'd annoy Ron the most," said Hermione dispassionately.

    "Well, yeah," said Ron. He hesitated a moment, then said, "Is Hermione really going out with McLaggen?"
    "I dunno," said Harry. "They were at Slughorn's party together, but I don't think it went very well."
    Ron looked slightly more cheerful as he delved deeper into his stocking.
    - This cheers Ron up, even though he has a girlfriend.

    Hermione gave an almost inaudible sniff. She had been exceptionally quiet all day. Having hurtled, white-faced, up to Harry outside the hospital wing and demanded to know what had happened, she had taken almost no part in Harry and Ginny's obsessive discussion about how Ron had been poisoned, but merelystood beside them, clench-jawed and frightened looking, until at last they had been allowed in to see him.
    - Hermione is terrified at the thought of losing Ron.

    "Then the poisoner didn't know Slughorn very well," said Hermione, speaking for the first time in hours and sounding as though she had a bad head-cold. "Anyone who knew Slughorn would have known there was a good chance he'd keep something that tasty for himself."
    "Er-my-nee," croaked Ron unexpectedly from between them.
    - HE'S SPEAKING HER NAME IN HIS SLEEP! OH GOD! You don't hear him croaking "'Arry", do you?

    "If you don't want to go out with her any more, just tell her," said Harry.
    "Yeah ... well ... it's not that easy, is it?" said Ron. He paused. "Hermione going to look in before the match?" he added casually.
    "No, she's already gone down to the pitch with Ginny,"
    "Oh, said Ron, looking rather glum. "Right. Well, good luck. Hope you hammer McLag- I mean, Smith."
    - Ron is thinking of Hermione whilst talking of his girlfriend.

    "Ah, no!" said Ron, staring horror-struck at the parchement. "Dont say I'll have to write the whole thing out again!"
    "It's OK, we can fix it," said Hermione, pulling the essay towards her and taking out her wand.
    "I love you, Hermione," said Ron, sinking back in his chair, rubbing his eyes weaily.
    Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, "Don't let Lavender hear you saying that."
    "I won't, said Ron into his hands. "Or maybe I will ... then she'll ditch me ..."
    - Hermione wishes he did love her.. oh, but he does.

    "Ron, you're making it snow," said Hermione patiently, grabbing his wrist and redirecting his wand away from the ceiling from which, sure enough, large white flakes had started to fall. Lavender Brown, Harry noticed, glared at Hermione from a neighboring table through very red eyes and Hermione immediately let go of Ron's arm.
    "Oh yeah," said Ron, looking down at his shoulders in vague surprise. "Sorry ... looks like we've all got horrible dandruff now ..."
    He brushed some of the fake snow off Hermione's shoulder. Lavender burst into tears. Ron looked immensly guilty and turned his back on her.
    "We split up," he told Harry out of the corner of his mouth. Last night. When she saw me coming out of the dormitory with Hermione. Obviously she couldn't see you, so she thought it had just been the two of us."
    "Ah," said Harry. "Well - you don't mind it's over, do you?"
    "No," Ron admitted. "It was pretty bad while she was yelling, but at least I didn't have to finish it."
    "Coward," said Hermione, though she looked amused.

    They had one of their rare joint free periods after Charms and walked back to the common room together. Ron seemes to be positively light-hearted about the end of his relationshio with Lavender and Hermione seemed cheery, too, though when asked what she was grinning about she simply said, "It's a nice day."

    Ron, he saw, was now holding Hermione and stroking her hair while she sobbed into his shoulder, tears dripping from his own long nose.
    - I know you don't think this is valid, snowy, but it IS, and so I left it in.

    JK evidence...

    Couric: "Any snogging with Hermione?"
    Rowling: [surprised] "Harry and Hermione! Do you think so?"
    Katie Couric: "No, I'm just kidding."
    J.K. Rowling: "Ron and Hermione, I should say. There's more tension there."
    -- From Katie Couric's June 2003 interview with JK Rowling

    "Harry and Hermione are very platonic [platonic means nonsexual] friends. But I won't answer for anyone else. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink."
    -- From a National Press Club Luncheon chat with JK Rowling, October 1999)

    Q: Is it just me, or was something going on between Ron and Hermione during the last half of Goblet of Fire?
    A: "Yes, something's "going on," but Ron doesn't realize it yet. Typical boy."
    -- From a BarnesandNoble.com chat with JK Rowling


    Q: Does Hermione like Ron as more than a friend?
    A: The answer to that is in Goblet of Fire!
    (and haven't I already showed you that there is plenty of that?)
    -- From a BBC chat with JK Rowling, March 12, 2001)

    Movie evidence...

    #1- PS. When Hermione learns that Ron is to sacrifice himself in the chess game, Hermione gets upset and tells him that there must be another way. Did Hermione protest when Harry told her that he needed to go alone and face Voldemort? NO. And also, Hermione couldn't keep still when Ron had fallen from the transfigured chess piece.

    #2- CoS. When Harry moves closer to see the petrified Mrs. Norris, you can see Hermione moving closer to Ron, and they glance at each other. Soon after, Ron and Hermione look at each other again when the students are leaving to go back to their dormitories.

    #3- Hermione: "Do you think he's (Lockhart) alright?"
    Ron: "Who cares?" (Leans into her.)

    #4- The "Hug" scene
    At the very end of the movie, Hermione comes running into the hall to congratulate Harry and Ron. She runs straight up to Harry and hugs him, but then stops herself before hugging ron (who becomes flustered at the idea of hugging her), and instead shakes his hand.
    Hermione feels nothing when she hugs Harry, but is too embarrassed to hug Ron.

    #5 - PoA. The "Move Closer" scene
    While Harry is sneaking through Honeydukes under the invisibility cloak, Ron and Hermione are alone in Hogsmeade looking at the Shrieking Shack. Hermione mentions that it's "the most haunted building in Britian" and then asks "Do you want to move a bit closer?"
    Ron thinks she is talking about them moving closer together and starts getting all flustered, then Hermione realises and adds "to the shrieking shack!"

    #6 - "They Might Have To Chop It"
    This scene is quite funny. After everyone comes out of the Shrieking Shack, Harry and Sirius stand looking at Hogwarts, while Hermione stays back with Ron, whose leg is broken. Hermione asks "is it painful?" and Ron reples, in a very would-be-brave voice, "so painful...it might have to be chopped".
    This can be regarded as just a bit of humour, but you can read that Ron is trying somewhat to be brave in front of, or to impress, Hermione.

    Even Dan Radcliffe sees it...

    "I think these two [Rupert (Ron) and Emma (Hermione)] are going to get together." - Daniel Radcliffe

    "...the sideline story between Ron and Hermione is one of my favorites, as it's just a cover-up so they can get attention of each other. There's a huge amount of sexual tension between them, which is great and provides much-needed comic relief because the film is very depressing and angry." - Daniel Radcliffe
    Lizo: "Do you think Ron and Hermione are suited?"
    Daniel Radcliffe: Yeah absolutely, very much so--they are complete polar opposites but suit each other perfectly."

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:49 AM  

  • That last bit was the Heron evidence. Here is the most recent letter that I posted:

    Gotta laugh at this. Got onto Snowy's website only to find a Yahoo Error Message proclaiming that the site was unaccessable for at least another hour because it had exceeded it's bandwith.

    (rolls eyes)

    Let me guess then, Version 3 is in the works, right? God, I can't believe that our darling Snowy still believes her petition is doing well. Far from it. My petition over at:

    http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/loyalty_to_Emerson

    is scoring much higher in terms of actual support than Snowy's joke of a petition.

    Also looked at her celebrations of having reached 2700 signatures. All I have to say is, WTF? The pictures come from fricking Lord of the Rings! Hello Snowy? Irrelevance Police?

    Also, some more irony comes in the form of Snowy providing a definition of "homophobia", part of which mentions the "discrimination of homosexuals". And yet Snowy therefore describes Trish as a homophobe.

    So hang on, let me get this straight. If you get seriously pissed off at a stupid little girl who is launching degratory remarks against homosexuals, and then launce a huge defence of them, THAT makes you a homophobe? Oookkkkaaaaaayyyyyy.

    CAPTAIN FLAWED LOGIC RETURNS!

    Well, here's a defenition which also suits you down to the ground.

    Cowardice: lack of courage or resolution

    Why do I give you that defenition. Because you are unable to directly answer any essays, such as the email I sent which you STILL have not published. Instead, you hide behind cheap insults, not to mention disgraceful homophobia. Not only that, but you are too much of a coward to deconstruct the deconstructions of your Harmony and "Hermione hates Ron" evidence. And you are too much of a coward to deconstruct any more Heron evidence, nor to deconstruct the deconstructions of your deconstructions of the Heron evidence. You are also too much of a coward to provide any more evidence for your beliefs, even though your "evidence" as you put it is heavily out-weighed by the tons of evidence as graciously provided by Mina. And why is all this? Because you know DAMN WELL for a fact that we are right and you are wrong, and you are just too much of a COWARD to admit it. Show a little backbone won't you? You spineless, homophobic, nasty hypocrite.

    The following now comes from a post made on the HermionePotter.net forums just today:

    Ok, Caina, you still haven't replied to my last post nor have you posted a real reply to my original post, so I shall start afresh.

    I'm going to put this straight. Caina, my main argument against you is that you represent one of the people that posts on the H.M.S. Harmony forums. My own personal experience of the H.M.S. forums is with the use of two user-names. In the form of DieterKahn, I posted stuff that I had posted on Otter Snow's and Pumpkinhead's websites, unaware that forum rules prohibited the use of quotes from other sites. So, posting as my real name, Jonathan, I sent an Open Letter To The H.M.S. Harmony forums. You may or may not have seen it, I don't know. I had really hoped, at the time, that I would get a response. This time, I hoped (and I had not quoted from other sites) that I could get a response thus sparking an INTELLIGENT DEBATE (You see where I'm going with this?) and all could be civil. Not so. My post was deleted, and shortly before being banned, I was to receive a personal message that, to my surprise, the H.M.S. Harmony was apparently supposed to be a "safe haven" for H/Hr shippers and that "debates" were therefore outlawed. You might wonder where the surprise came from. It's quite simple. The actual title of that forum is simply "Harry Potter". While it does say that this is a place for H/Hr shippers to weep and anguish, it also says that the forum is for the purposes of discussing Harry Potter. So therefore, like it or not, other ships of the Harry Potter series were therefore logically up for discussion. Another example of moderators banning someone simply because they offered a differing view comes from this quote that comes up next. Remember the Heron evidence I posted on the "Opposition" board? This same evidence was brought to the H.M.S. Harmony by one of my associates and this was the result:

    Mod Note: This post has been edited because, as it was, it would have instigated a debate, which happens to be against our current policy.

    Comments such as:


    QUOTE
    She is never described favourably again.





    QUOTE
    If this is not hate/LOVELOVELOVE relationship, then what is?





    QUOTE
    It's his fault she got hurt, for pity's sake.




    Are therefore considered trolling, due to the general dismissive, categorical, condescending and, bluntly put, annoying content.

    We thank you for spewing all that VOMIT on us, but seeing as how this is primarily a H/Hr forum, your post is against our rules.

    -Ana Christina

    Now, would it have hurt to tackle the quotes directly? Absolutely not, no reason is given at all as to why the post is "VOMIT" as Ana Christina says. A better action would have been to tackle the issues head on, and not simply hiding behind lame excuses such as "a debate is against our current policy." I've tackled your issues, and this is why I ask that you tackle mine.

    My other reason is the content of your webiste. As before mentioned, a lot of the essays come from the H.M.S. Harmony, and considering the environment in which the essays come from (where hugely despicable abuse often rains in on JKR), I do feel it highly devalues them. Not only that, but the essays totally fail to bring forward any real evidence, no QUOTES (I'm sorry, it had to be said) that actively support Harmony.

    Don't get me wrong, I have nothing at all against you shipping Hermione and Harry to get together, I don't have a problem with that. In fact, I am perfectly fine with shippers of other faiths as well. The only problem is, unlike shippers such as Harry/Draco, Snape/Hermione and Remus/Sirius (whose fantasies are purely fanon), the Harmony ship actually is supposed to boast of having Canon evidence. And like someone else said, if you're shipping a ship that big, then Canon is a NECESSITY. This is why Heron shippers have been quick to draw out the gargantuan Heron evidence.

    Next, your quotes section. You have no idea how excited I was when I initially saw that. I thought "At last! A Harmony shippers website which will provide Canon evidence. I was extremely dissapointed to find quotes not from the books, movies or interviews, but simply from Harmony shippers saying what the Harmony ship was. Bad form, Caina, really bad form. This was a perfect opportunity to launch the best defence of your ship possible, in providing canon quotes to support your ship, and you blew it. Totally.

    Finally, your Year 6 fic. I'm sorry, but you have to consider what it looks like when you're doing that. No matter what you insist you're doing, to everyone it just looks like attempting to rewrite the novel. I'm sorry, but HBP has been finished. Released. Done with.

    What WOULD intrigue me, however, is, rather than writing a Year 6 fic, how about writing how you think Book 7 will turn out. That would be FANTASTIC. You undoubtedly have promise as a writer, and writing a Year 7 fic would look well good.

    In summary, when I came here, what I wanted was something that Snowy and Pumpkinhead had not provided, that is, an in-depth, detailed analytical answer to my essay. If you do not agree with my essay, give a detailed, constructive response why.

    Thank you.

    #######################

    By the way Snowy, let me tell you something. The potential to ban you and your moronic, homophobic website still exists, for as it says in the Yahoo Community Guidelines:

    "Do not post content that is obscene or otherwise objectionable."

    Also, the Petitionspot guidelines are:

    "The contents of your petition must not be defamatory, libelous, or slanderous. It must not be intended and likely to produce lawless action in any country. It must not contain vulgarity, profanity, or obscenity."

    To complain to Geocities, contact:

    http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/geo/cgi_abuse

    And to complain to Petitionspot, contact

    webmaster@petitionspot.com

    Hate to break it to you Snowy. Therefore, any more obscene remarks like the ones you've been making and you are banned at the click of a button.

    Muhahahahahahahaha!

    ########################

    Now Pumpkinhead, answers are wanted for all of the issues raised above. Have fun attempting to deconstruct the Heron evidence! Oh yeah, and CANON Harmony evidence please.

    SUPPORT BOOK 7

    ALL HAIL MISS TRISH, TIFFI, THE GREY LADY, JONATHAN, WILLY WONKA, YODA, THE MACABRE QUARTET, COLLEEN, MINA, COONSKIN 13 AND EMERSON: LEADERS OF THE GOOD FIGHT FOR SANITY

    •Emerson's Thugs Rock On Forever•

    •Emerson's Thugs: We're better than you militants, and we know it!•

    RID THE INTERNET OF LUNATICS

    Give Snowy hell from us Peeves...

    "Yes, we do now know that it's Ron and Hermione."

    Get. Over. It.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:53 AM  

  • LET'S STOP THE HATE!
    Pumpkin, I know you work and go to school. Surely you must have better outlets for your energy? Really, it's time to stop, for both sides. Besides, we all know Harmonians have more fun anyway. I suggest you read Paradigm of Uncertainty and Draco Dormiens. They'll definitely satiate your hunger for Harmony. Let's stop fighting, and start being a single community, rather than divided- Let's all just be Potterheads!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:57 PM  

  • Thousands of people are dead, and you think the greatest tragedy is that two book characters aren't together? You DARE to be so shallow? Not even one sentence in your blog expresses sorrow of any sort.
    You are disgusting, and really need to think about your priorities.
    BTW-
    I hope Shakespeare's ghost HAUNTS you for your blatant disregard for his work.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:51 PM  

  • hermione loves ron
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    ... and i flatly refuse to write an essay on why...because it happened in the books...harry kissed ginny...it happened. enough said.

    lets all stop going crazy and just put this in perspective...ppl are starving, dying....its just not important!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:37 AM  

  • In the immortal words of good old Billy Shakespeare "GET THEE TO A NUNNERY!"

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:21 AM  

  • "You are all so unduly harsh on poor Pumpkinhead. He/She has never so much as insulted any of you and you all return his/her civility with nothing but rudeness. So what if PH gets mixed up about what genre of literature Shakespeare wrote? So what if the grammar in his posts is far from perfect? I find his points and purpose perfectly understandable and proper. All of you trolls should seek medical help to deal with your hostility issues."

    Looks at this hypocrite who's talking. If you were SUCH a sympathetic soul, you would care that people all over the southern United Staes are dead and starving because of the deadliest Hurricane in American History, and all you think about is Pumpkinhead here. And you have never read the book! Have you seen the news with all the looting? Not just by blacks but by whites too. New Orleans, the Jewel of the South, is under water, and all you do is compare a good childrens book to a depressing play where the main characters commit suicide in the end? Several Antebellum mansions are heavily damaged, including Jefferson Davis'(first and only president of the Confederate States of America) home in Mississipi. We do not need medical help, you Pumpkinhead and Sympethic Soul, need it more than us.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:39 AM  

  • Yeah, exactly. ALso, I never knew that "troll" was a compliment. Did you?

    Anyway, I'm not bothering to come here anymore. It's so pointless unless I need a good laugh. Then I shall come. You do realize that they might not even rebuild New Orleans because they're afraid it might happen again, right? That even after the water is drained or whatever, there are still corpses all over the place? And yet you say the greatest tragedy is that H/Hr didn't happen.

    Anyway, I have better things to do with my time. So I won't be here so much.

    Farewell,
    Ali

    P.S. Ali isn't my real name. It's my net name even though I use my real one a lot on the internet...oh well.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:29 PM  

  • Hey, I remember we did Romeo and Juliet in English class last year. Pumpkinhead is right that there are a lot of similarities between the two. Here are some that I can think of from the top of my head:

    1) Romeo has five letters in his name. So does Harry!

    2) Capulet (Juliet's last name) has seven letters. So does Granger!

    3) The actor they hired to play Romeo is soooo hott (Leo DiCaprio) and Dan Radcliffe (actor who is Harry) is becoming even more and more hott with each movie!!!!11

    Pumpkinhead, I see the connection! Are there more that you have found besides this evidence?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:55 PM  

  • I would first like to express my heart-felt sympathy for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and her aftermath. My thoughts and prayers go out to them and their families. I wish the rescue and recovery efforts godspeed and the best of luck. I would like you all to note that this blog and the majority of the comments therein were written either before the disaster, or before the magnitude of it became so overwhelming. I am sure Pumkinhead feels as I do. I have it on good authority that he is working on a very important post right now that you should all read. It will open your eyes. We clearly see that this calamity supercedes all aspects of ordinary life and commands our respect and attention. Let us use this moment to put all this ugliness behind us. It is now when love is most needed.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:14 PM  

  • Don't know how long it's been since someone posted a comment here, but Snowy and Pumpkinhead are Herons in disguise, out to make H/Hr shippers look bad by being as idiotic as possible.

    It's a sad commentary on their lack of lives, and it makes me weep for humanity.

    The stupidity burns my brain, and the fact that these two do this is beyond retarded. It makes you both look like a couple of losers.

    But as you both are already retarded enough to do something like this, I'm sure my comments will whiz happily over your heads in a blur of oblivion.

    Morons.

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