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Post by ykickamoocow on Jul 3, 2012 7:58:57 GMT -5
No he is worried that the friendship between the three of them will break apart if Hermione and Ron start going out and it doesn't work out. If that were the case he would not think this ----------------------- What if they became like Bill and Fleur, and it became excruciatingly embarrassing to be in their presence, so that he was shut out for good? ----------------------- and when he gets together with Ginny he would not spend hours alone with her without Ron and Hermione there. |
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Post by physicssquid on Jul 3, 2012 8:01:36 GMT -5
I thought that Harry's reaction to the argument in sixth year was because he knew what had happened in previous years when Ron and Hermione stopped talking to each other. It would not be fun trying to be best friends with them at that point, and he didn't want to have to go between the two and try and talk them into talking to each other.
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Post by werewulfking on Jul 3, 2012 8:02:25 GMT -5
Well nobody invites their friends to a date or when you want to be alone with your girlfriend.
And the other thought is the same: What if Hermione and Ron always were going at it like lavender and ron? I think we all agree that it would put a lot of strain on a friendship if the third part had to endure that.
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Post by ykickamoocow on Jul 3, 2012 8:11:40 GMT -5
Well nobody invites their friends to a date or when you want to be alone with your girlfriend. And the other thought is the same: What if Hermione and Ron always were going at it like lavender and ron? I think we all agree that it would put a lot of strain on a friendship if the third part had to endure that. Does he really think Ron and Hermione would be that selfish to exclude him like that? |
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Post by werewulfking on Jul 3, 2012 8:29:22 GMT -5
Well form what he sees from Ron and Lavender it certainly seemed possible.
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Post by ykickamoocow on Jul 3, 2012 8:36:46 GMT -5
Well form what he sees from Ron and Lavender it certainly seemed possible. This was prior to Lavender and its safe to say the Ron/Hermione relationship would be very very different to the Ron/Lavender one as the Ron/Hermione relationship would be based on real feelings and a real attraction for one another whereas the Ron/Lavender relationship was all about image. |
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Post by werewulfking on Jul 3, 2012 8:41:49 GMT -5
Of course it was before Lavender, I forgot. But still when you start to go out you don't want to invite your friends to your alone time.
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Post by lrthunder on Jul 3, 2012 9:00:41 GMT -5
If Hermione hadn't become friends with Ron and Harry, I wonder if she would've ended up like Percy.
To begin with, she seemed almost exactly like Percy, obsessive about books and the rules (although she toned down quite a bit).
With Percy, we never saw if he had any friends. Yes, he had a girlfriend (Penny Clearwater), but that didn't keep him from turning his back on his family. Would actual friends have kept him better grounded?
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Post by ykickamoocow on Jul 3, 2012 9:25:02 GMT -5
That is the point with Hermione though. I don't think she was even remotely attracted to male versions of herself. Deep down she realised that she wanted to be with someone who would be capable of making her have fun and making sure she would not take life to seriously. There is no way a person like Percy could do that.
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Post by Kitty279 on Jul 3, 2012 9:30:09 GMT -5
Good question. I suspect Molly backed Percy and his obsessive rule-obeying and his ambitions up because it was what she wanted, not realising that she drove a wedge between him and his siblings, who didn't like being compared to him. We don't see much of Percy, but I can see his social skills lacking like Hermione's in the beginning, too.
A friend who told him to stop studying and have fun now and then, who cut down on his obsessions would have done him some good. To be honest, I always thought that Penny ditched him because she was annoyed about his sycophantic worship of the Minister/Ministry over his own family.
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