Delusional Fangirl

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Usually, R/Hr shippers use the fact that Harry and Hermione kept their distance in the tent as an argument against H/Hr, which I find really funny, because J.K. Rowling DID say that when she was writing H/Hr in the tent she felt a lot of tension and that the dance scene in the movie captures perfectly what she was feeling, which means that she purposefully had to keep them at distance, and why would she? It’s clear that she felt like whatever the hell was going on with Harry and Hermione was getting in the way of R/Hr as she had planned them. It seems like Ron’s accusation after all touched a nerve when he just stated out loud something that probably both Harry and Hermione have been fighting and kept secret until then. Ron addressed the invisible giant in the room that was their romantic feelings for each other, which no one had ever done before so blatantly, and that bothered Harry and Hermione enough to not being able to laugh about it and go on with their friendship as if things were normal. Rowling either took the coward way out and decided to not do anything about an incredible tense and intimate period of time that Harry and Hermione shared because she didn’t know how to handle it, or she decided to be subtle and kept them purposefully at distance for the sake of their loyalty to Ron because they both knew that they had romantic feelings for each other and they didn’t want to address them. Harry being aware of Hermione not wanting him to see her crying, the official and convenient excuse.  Also, if I know anything about Harry, I know that he wouldn’t get in the way of his best friend having feelings for Hermione, for the sake of his happiness, which would come before his own. Either way, the whole tent part is proof that something big was going on between Harry and Hermione and for one reason or another they had to be kept apart. “Just best friends” would have been written in a very different way.