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Book 6, Stage 6: Hermione accepts her romantic feelings for Ron
In Book 5, Hermione shows signs that she realizes that she too has romantic feelings, but her bitterness and nastiness indicate that she has not yet accepted it. As in stage 2 & 3, it will take her realizing that she could lose him that will help her come to accept her feelings. At the beginning of Book 6, she continues to be nasty about Ron.
Looking careworn, she left the room. Ron still seemed slightly punch-drunk; he as shaking his head experimentally like a dog trying to rid its ears of water.
"Don't anda get used to her if she's staying in the same house?" Harry asked.
"Well, anda do," berkata Ron, "but if she jumps out at anda unexpectedly, like hen . ."
"It's pathetic," berkata Hermione furiously, striding away from Ron as far as she ould go and turning to face him with her arms folded once she had reached the wall. (Ch. 5)
"Good idea," whispered Hermione, clearly pleased that Harry was calming
down. "Ron, what are anda staring at?"
"Nothing," berkata 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 whom he had long nursed a soft spot.
"I expect 'nothing's' in the back getting lebih firewhisky," berkata Hermione waspishly. (Ch. 12)
sejak the time Krismas comes around, Hermione has had ample opportunities to see Lavender's flirtation with Ron and Ron's eventual consideration of that flirtation. She is forced to realize that Ron may alih on so she begins to start Berlakon on her own feelings. Like Ron's romantic alih of giving perfume the Krismas before, Hermione finally makes a alih of her own and invites Ron to go to the Krismas party with her. She has not yet attained full acceptance, though. This is shown sejak her continued bitterness at Ron, even as she attempts to invite him to go to the party with her.
"We're allowed to bring guests," berkata Hermione, who for some reason had
turned a bright, boiling scarlet, "and I was going to ask anda to come, but if
anda think it's that stupid then I won't bother!"
Harry suddenly wished the pod had flown a little farther, so that he need
not have been sitting here with the pair of them. Unnoticed sejak either, he
seized the bowl that contained the pod and began to try and open it sejak the
noisiest and most energetic means he could think of; unfortunately, he could
still hear every word of their conversation.
"You were going to ask me?" asked Ron, in a completely different voice.
"Yes," berkata Hermione angrily. "But obviously if you'd rather I hooked up
with McLaggen . . ."
There was a pause while Harry continued to pound the resilient pod with a
trowel.
"No, I wouldn't," berkata Ron, in a very quiet voice. (Ch. 14)
In Stage 3, she had to deal with the fact that while her friendship was important to Ron, he wasn't going to put up with her lack of acceptance for long. In Stage 3, her decision to put her pet and being right above her friendship with Ron made her lose him for a while. The same thing happened in Stage 6. She puts her own pride and desire to make Ron jealous of Krum above her romantic feelings for Ron, and she loses him to Lavender for a while. As in Stage 3, this leads to an estrangement.
He had no idea what to say to her. He was just wondering whether there
was any chance that she had not noticed Ron, that she had merely left the
room because the party was a little too rowdy, when she said, in an
unnaturally high-pitched voice, "Ron seems to be enjoying the celebrations."
"Er . . . does he?" berkata Harry.
"Don't pretend anda didn't see him," berkata Hermione. "He wasn't exactly
hiding it, was—?" (Ch. 14)
She walked very slowly and erectly toward the door. Harry glanced at
Ron, who was looking relieved that nothing worse had happened.
"Oppugno!" came a shriek from the doorway.
Harry spun around to see Hermione pointing her wand at Ron, her
expression wild: The little flock of birds was speeding like a hail of fat
golden bullets toward 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. (Ch. 14)
"He's at perfect liberty to Ciuman whomever he likes," berkata Hermione, while
the librarian, Madam Pince, prowled the shelves behind them. "I really
couldn't care less."
She raised her quill and dotted an i so ferociously that she punctured a
hole in her parchment. (Ch. 15)
But her face suddenly turned blank; she had just spotted Ron and
Lavender, who were intertwined in the same armchair.
"Well, good night, Harry" berkata Hermione, though it was only seven
o'clock in the evening, and she left for the girl's dormitory without another
word. (Ch. 15)
"Hi, Parvati!" berkata Hermione, ignoring Ron and Lavender completely.
"Are anda going to Slughorn's party tonight?"
"No invite," berkata Parvati gloomily. "I'd Cinta 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 surfaced. Hermione acted as though she had not seen atau heard
anything.
"—we're going up to the party together."
"Cormac?" berkata Parvati. "Cormac McLaggen, anda mean?"
"That's right," berkata Hermione sweetly. "The one who almost" —she put a
great deal of emphasis on the word— "became Gryffindor Keeper."
"Are anda going out with him, then?" asked Parvati, wide-eyed.
"Oh—yes—didn't anda know?" berkata Hermione, with a most un-Hermioneish
giggle.
"No!" berkata Parvati, looking positively agog at this piece of gossip. "Wow,
anda 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. . . ."(Ch. 15)
"Oh, I've just escaped—I mean, I've just left Cormac," she said. "Under
the mistletoe," she added in explanation, as Harry continued to look
questioningly at her.
"Serves anda right for coming with him," he told her severely. "I thought
he'd annoy Ron most," berkata Hermione dispassionately. "I debated for a while
about Zacharias Smith, but I thought, on the whole—"
"You considered Smith?" berkata Harry, revoked. (Ch. 15)
He was not entirely sure that she had heard him, though; Ron and Lavender had been saying a thoroughly nonverbal good-bye just behind him at the time. (Ch. 16)
Ron's Stage 2 and Stage 5 acceptance parallel each other, and predictably, Hermione's acceptance in Stage 3 and Stage 6 parallel each other. Her own stubborness results in her temporarily losing him, but when an event happens that causes her to realize that she could really lose him forever, she changes.
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 merely stood beside them, clench-jawed and frightened-looking, until at last they had been allowed in to see him. (Ch. 19)
"Then the poisoner didn't know Slughorn very well," berkata Hermione,
speaking for the first time in hours and sounding as though she had a bad
head cold. "Anyone who knew Slughorn would have I known there was a
good chance he'd keep something that tasty for himself." I
"Er-my-nee," croaked Ron unexpectedly from between them. (Ch. 19)
After Ron is poisoned Hermione again realizes that he could've died and been Lost to her forever, just like in Stage 3 when she was upset that he was almost stabbed. This is when full acceptance of her romantic feelings finally occurs, and it is parallel to her acceptance in Stage 3. The bitterness ends and she becomes lebih tolerant of Ron. As Ron's interest in Lavender continues to diminish, Hermione's mood improves, as well.
Ron looked both sulky and annoyed when he appeared at breakfast half an
jam later, and though he sat with Lavender, Harry did not see them
exchange a word all the time they were together. Hermione was Berlakon as
though she was quite oblivious to all of this, but once atau twice Harry saw an inexplicable smirk menyeberang, cross her face. All that
hari she seemed to be in a particularly good mood, and that evening in the
common room she even consented to look over (in other words, finish
writing) Harry's Herbology essay, something she had been resolutely
refusing to do up to this point, because she had known that Harry would then
let Ron copy his work.
"Thanks a lot, Hermione," berkata Harry, giving her a hasty pat on the back
as he checked his watch and saw that it was nearly eight o'clock. "Listen,
I've got to hurry atau I'll be late for Dumbledore. . . ." (Ch. 20)
"I Cinta you, Hermione," berkata Ron, sinking back in his chair, rubbing his
eyes wearily. Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, "Don't let
Lavender hear anda saying that." (Ch. 21)
"Ron, you're making it snow," berkata 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 meja, jadual through
very red eyes, and Hermione immediately let go of Ron's arm.
"Oh yeah," berkata 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 immensely guilty and turned his back on her.
"We perpecahan, berpecah 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," berkata 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," berkata Hermione, though she looked amused. "Well, it was a bad
night for romance all around. Ginny and Dean perpecahan, berpecah up too, Harry." (Ch. 24)
In Chapter 30 we see evidence that both Ron and Hermione are now at the stage of full acceptance of their romantic feelings for each other.
Ron, he saw, was now holding Hermione and stroking her hair while she sobbed into his shoulder, tears dripping from the end of his own long nose.
Now that they have both accepted their feelings for each other, it is time for the progression of their relationship. If Rowling continues with her pattern, it will not be a smooth progression. Ron and Hermione's relationship is characterized sejak misunderstandings and a cycle of seeking approval and receiving disapproval. In Stage 1, Ron sent Hermione to the bathroom in tears after she insulted him. The events surrounding that fight led to the progression of their friendship. In Stage 4, Ron sent Hermione to her room angry after he saw her with a tarikh that he feels he could never compete with. The events of that fight led to the progression of the realization that they romantic feelings for each other. It is logical to assume that a fight based on a misunderstanding and a perceived lack of approval will be what leads to the final progression of them becoming involved in a romantic relationship.
Book 6, Stage 6: Hermione accepts her romantic feelings for Ron
In Book 5, Hermione shows signs that she realizes that she too has romantic feelings, but her bitterness and nastiness indicate that she has not yet accepted it. As in stage 2 & 3, it will take her realizing that she could lose him that will help her come to accept her feelings. At the beginning of Book 6, she continues to be nasty about Ron.
Looking careworn, she left the room. Ron still seemed slightly punch-drunk; he as shaking his head experimentally like a dog trying to rid its ears of water.
"Don't anda get used to her if she's staying in the same house?" Harry asked.
"Well, anda do," berkata Ron, "but if she jumps out at anda unexpectedly, like hen . ."
"It's pathetic," berkata Hermione furiously, striding away from Ron as far as she ould go and turning to face him with her arms folded once she had reached the wall. (Ch. 5)
"Good idea," whispered Hermione, clearly pleased that Harry was calming
down. "Ron, what are anda staring at?"
"Nothing," berkata 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 whom he had long nursed a soft spot.
"I expect 'nothing's' in the back getting lebih firewhisky," berkata Hermione waspishly. (Ch. 12)
sejak the time Krismas comes around, Hermione has had ample opportunities to see Lavender's flirtation with Ron and Ron's eventual consideration of that flirtation. She is forced to realize that Ron may alih on so she begins to start Berlakon on her own feelings. Like Ron's romantic alih of giving perfume the Krismas before, Hermione finally makes a alih of her own and invites Ron to go to the Krismas party with her. She has not yet attained full acceptance, though. This is shown sejak her continued bitterness at Ron, even as she attempts to invite him to go to the party with her.
"We're allowed to bring guests," berkata Hermione, who for some reason had
turned a bright, boiling scarlet, "and I was going to ask anda to come, but if
anda think it's that stupid then I won't bother!"
Harry suddenly wished the pod had flown a little farther, so that he need
not have been sitting here with the pair of them. Unnoticed sejak either, he
seized the bowl that contained the pod and began to try and open it sejak the
noisiest and most energetic means he could think of; unfortunately, he could
still hear every word of their conversation.
"You were going to ask me?" asked Ron, in a completely different voice.
"Yes," berkata Hermione angrily. "But obviously if you'd rather I hooked up
with McLaggen . . ."
There was a pause while Harry continued to pound the resilient pod with a
trowel.
"No, I wouldn't," berkata Ron, in a very quiet voice. (Ch. 14)
In Stage 3, she had to deal with the fact that while her friendship was important to Ron, he wasn't going to put up with her lack of acceptance for long. In Stage 3, her decision to put her pet and being right above her friendship with Ron made her lose him for a while. The same thing happened in Stage 6. She puts her own pride and desire to make Ron jealous of Krum above her romantic feelings for Ron, and she loses him to Lavender for a while. As in Stage 3, this leads to an estrangement.
He had no idea what to say to her. He was just wondering whether there
was any chance that she had not noticed Ron, that she had merely left the
room because the party was a little too rowdy, when she said, in an
unnaturally high-pitched voice, "Ron seems to be enjoying the celebrations."
"Er . . . does he?" berkata Harry.
"Don't pretend anda didn't see him," berkata Hermione. "He wasn't exactly
hiding it, was—?" (Ch. 14)
She walked very slowly and erectly toward the door. Harry glanced at
Ron, who was looking relieved that nothing worse had happened.
"Oppugno!" came a shriek from the doorway.
Harry spun around to see Hermione pointing her wand at Ron, her
expression wild: The little flock of birds was speeding like a hail of fat
golden bullets toward 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. (Ch. 14)
"He's at perfect liberty to Ciuman whomever he likes," berkata Hermione, while
the librarian, Madam Pince, prowled the shelves behind them. "I really
couldn't care less."
She raised her quill and dotted an i so ferociously that she punctured a
hole in her parchment. (Ch. 15)
But her face suddenly turned blank; she had just spotted Ron and
Lavender, who were intertwined in the same armchair.
"Well, good night, Harry" berkata Hermione, though it was only seven
o'clock in the evening, and she left for the girl's dormitory without another
word. (Ch. 15)
"Hi, Parvati!" berkata Hermione, ignoring Ron and Lavender completely.
"Are anda going to Slughorn's party tonight?"
"No invite," berkata Parvati gloomily. "I'd Cinta 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 surfaced. Hermione acted as though she had not seen atau heard
anything.
"—we're going up to the party together."
"Cormac?" berkata Parvati. "Cormac McLaggen, anda mean?"
"That's right," berkata Hermione sweetly. "The one who almost" —she put a
great deal of emphasis on the word— "became Gryffindor Keeper."
"Are anda going out with him, then?" asked Parvati, wide-eyed.
"Oh—yes—didn't anda know?" berkata Hermione, with a most un-Hermioneish
giggle.
"No!" berkata Parvati, looking positively agog at this piece of gossip. "Wow,
anda 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. . . ."(Ch. 15)
"Oh, I've just escaped—I mean, I've just left Cormac," she said. "Under
the mistletoe," she added in explanation, as Harry continued to look
questioningly at her.
"Serves anda right for coming with him," he told her severely. "I thought
he'd annoy Ron most," berkata Hermione dispassionately. "I debated for a while
about Zacharias Smith, but I thought, on the whole—"
"You considered Smith?" berkata Harry, revoked. (Ch. 15)
He was not entirely sure that she had heard him, though; Ron and Lavender had been saying a thoroughly nonverbal good-bye just behind him at the time. (Ch. 16)
Ron's Stage 2 and Stage 5 acceptance parallel each other, and predictably, Hermione's acceptance in Stage 3 and Stage 6 parallel each other. Her own stubborness results in her temporarily losing him, but when an event happens that causes her to realize that she could really lose him forever, she changes.
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 merely stood beside them, clench-jawed and frightened-looking, until at last they had been allowed in to see him. (Ch. 19)
"Then the poisoner didn't know Slughorn very well," berkata Hermione,
speaking for the first time in hours and sounding as though she had a bad
head cold. "Anyone who knew Slughorn would have I known there was a
good chance he'd keep something that tasty for himself." I
"Er-my-nee," croaked Ron unexpectedly from between them. (Ch. 19)
After Ron is poisoned Hermione again realizes that he could've died and been Lost to her forever, just like in Stage 3 when she was upset that he was almost stabbed. This is when full acceptance of her romantic feelings finally occurs, and it is parallel to her acceptance in Stage 3. The bitterness ends and she becomes lebih tolerant of Ron. As Ron's interest in Lavender continues to diminish, Hermione's mood improves, as well.
Ron looked both sulky and annoyed when he appeared at breakfast half an
jam later, and though he sat with Lavender, Harry did not see them
exchange a word all the time they were together. Hermione was Berlakon as
though she was quite oblivious to all of this, but once atau twice Harry saw an inexplicable smirk menyeberang, cross her face. All that
hari she seemed to be in a particularly good mood, and that evening in the
common room she even consented to look over (in other words, finish
writing) Harry's Herbology essay, something she had been resolutely
refusing to do up to this point, because she had known that Harry would then
let Ron copy his work.
"Thanks a lot, Hermione," berkata Harry, giving her a hasty pat on the back
as he checked his watch and saw that it was nearly eight o'clock. "Listen,
I've got to hurry atau I'll be late for Dumbledore. . . ." (Ch. 20)
"I Cinta you, Hermione," berkata Ron, sinking back in his chair, rubbing his
eyes wearily. Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, "Don't let
Lavender hear anda saying that." (Ch. 21)
"Ron, you're making it snow," berkata 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 meja, jadual through
very red eyes, and Hermione immediately let go of Ron's arm.
"Oh yeah," berkata 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 immensely guilty and turned his back on her.
"We perpecahan, berpecah 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," berkata 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," berkata Hermione, though she looked amused. "Well, it was a bad
night for romance all around. Ginny and Dean perpecahan, berpecah up too, Harry." (Ch. 24)
In Chapter 30 we see evidence that both Ron and Hermione are now at the stage of full acceptance of their romantic feelings for each other.
Ron, he saw, was now holding Hermione and stroking her hair while she sobbed into his shoulder, tears dripping from the end of his own long nose.
Now that they have both accepted their feelings for each other, it is time for the progression of their relationship. If Rowling continues with her pattern, it will not be a smooth progression. Ron and Hermione's relationship is characterized sejak misunderstandings and a cycle of seeking approval and receiving disapproval. In Stage 1, Ron sent Hermione to the bathroom in tears after she insulted him. The events surrounding that fight led to the progression of their friendship. In Stage 4, Ron sent Hermione to her room angry after he saw her with a tarikh that he feels he could never compete with. The events of that fight led to the progression of the realization that they romantic feelings for each other. It is logical to assume that a fight based on a misunderstanding and a perceived lack of approval will be what leads to the final progression of them becoming involved in a romantic relationship.