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Can anybody put here HBP bookmoments? I'm not good at english, and I know that than book six are R/Hr. Is it true?

I mean H/Hr bookmoments... I live in Finland, and I don't have book six.

Sure, I can list a bunch of H/Hr moments from Book 6. Yes, there are also many moments between R/Hr, but I haven't given up on Harry and 'Mione yet!

Book Moments from HBP
Note: I'm using the US version. I don't have exact quotes, just page numbers.

1. Harry defends Hermione when talking with the new DADA teacher (page 70)

Why is this shippy? Because Harry doesn't waste a moment to defend his friend. He barely knows Slughorn, yet he gets angry at him for insulting muggle-borns.

2. The minute Harry arrives at the burrow, Crookshanks finds him and snuggles. (page 83)

Why is this shippy? Because Crookshanks, who is Hermione's familiar, has always been more attached to Harry than Ron. Do you think Crookshank's behavior is a reflection of his mistress' feelings?

3. Harry is very happy to know that Hermione has arrived. In fact, he remarks cheerfully, "Hermione's here?" (page 83)

AWW! Harry is glad to see his friend.

4. When Hermy first sees Harry, she keeps giving him fervent glances, which Harry notices. We're not sure what she is so concerned about. Possibly Sirius' death. (pages 89-90)

The fact that she is so concerned is endearing, and the fact that he is aware of her staring means that he must have been looking at her quite a bit, too!

5. Harry and Hermione laugh at the same joke. Granted, it was Ginny's joke . . . (page 93)

I only find this shippy because it proves that Harry and Hermione have things in common and can laugh together, something the Herons have been trying to prove wasn't possible.

6. Harry defends Fleur, which makes Hermione disappointed and bitter. (page 95)

Hermione seems to be jealous of Fleur, and she doesn't appreciate the fact that Harry likes her.

7. When Harry explains what the prophecy means, Hermione becomes so upset she squeezes a telescope that was made by Fred and George and gets hit in the eye. Later, she murmurs, "Harry, oh, Harry!" (page 98)

She was so stressed, she gripped the joke telescope really hard! She doesn't want to think that Harry has to kill or be killed! I don't know about you, but the line, "Harry, oh, Harry," has way too many connotations. Either Hermione's near tears when she's saying this, which would be indicative of how strongly she fears for him, or she's saying it kind of sultry like

8. Hermione is thrilled that Harry is the new quidditch captain because now he can use the prefects' bathrooms with them (page 107)

What does it matter if they use the same bathrooms? Unless Hermione wants a good excuse to see Harry in the bath . . .


Ok, I have about 30 more, but this post is getting far too. I hope this helps.

Keep going

Sorry can't be bothered finding my book but don't forget the "more fanciable than ever speach"

Thanks Cassandra. That helps so much. If someone wants to put here more moments..

I found "shippable" the fact that harry notices that Hermione jinxed the other keeper.

"Harry caught her eye and she went nervous". The he stops her at the door.

I don't have the book with me.

My personal favorite out of the numerous H/Hr moments, which despite popular belief are really very blatantly obvious is this one:


HBP, US edition July 2005, pg. 351-52

'Hermione was hurrying toward them, very pink-faced and wearing a cloak, hat, and gloves.

"I got back a couple of hours ago, I've just been down to visit Hagrid and Buck- I mean Witherwings," she said breathlessly. "Did you have a good Christmas?"
"Yeah," said Ron at once, "pretty eventful, Rufus Scrim-"
"I've got something for you, Harry," said Hermione, neither looking at Ron nor giving any sign that she had heard him. "Oh, hang on-password. Abstinence."
Snip
"Great," said Harry, unrolling it at once to discover that his next lesson with Dumbledore was scheduled for the following night. "I've got loads to tell him-and you. Let's sit down-"
But at that moment there was a loud squeal of "Won-Won!" and Lavendar Brown came hurtling out of nowhere and flung herself into Ron's arms. Several onlookers sniggered; Hermione gave a tinkling laugh and said, "There's a table over here...Coming, Ginny?"
"No, thanks, I said I'd meet Dean," said Ginny, though Harry could not help noticing that she did not sound very enthusiastic. Leaving Ron and Lavendar locked in a kind of vertical wrestling match, Harry led Hermione over to the spare table.
"So how was your Christmas?"
"Oh fine," she shrugged. "Nothing special. How was it at Won-Won's?"
Snip
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'And the rest of the evening passed amicably with both of them abusing the Minister of Magic, for Hermione, like Ron, thought that after all the Ministry had put Harry through the previous year, they had a great deal of nerve asking him for help now." '

Why do I love this bit soo much? First of all, it just proves Hermione's still herself; the usual only-caring-about-Harry-get-out-of-the-way-Ron. This proves that Harry did miss Hermione over Christmas. This proves that Ginny will not give Harry the rationalism of Hermione's guidance, I hardly think she would have given Harry anything even remotely comparable in "having a good friend to listen" talking sessions as Hermione has done numerously in the past. And finally, Hermione is not jealous of Ron and Lavendar.

Thanks False-signs. Hermione and Ron dating? Or what..?

Did anyone else have to stop and read the password to the common room over again? when i first read it i did, and then laughed so hard. i don't have my book with me right now, but i do seem to remember after Dumbledore died, that Ginny only held his hand, while Hermione ran and gave him a hug. have no idea what page it's on, though.

Not officially. Most of the book is Harry and Ginny dating actually. Rather painful to read, I found.

Actually most of the book is Harry attracted to Ginny and then there dating is nearly completly left out...

You forgot the bit with Harry confronting Hermione for confounding mcglaggen, and when Harry talks severly to Hermione after she's kissed him...

Actually, Harry and Ginny don't date until sometime after page 500. Harry does spend much of the book mooning after Ginny, fighting the monster in his chest, etc. But they don't date until sometime in May, after Gryffindor wins the Quidditch Cup. Fortunately, JKR did not force us to endure most of their gigantic two-week relationship. Thank God

I actually was really angry cause it seems that JK needed to cut down on H/hr to stop the speculation. Its like, she made Hermione seem really anooying and nagging him all the time so people would stop liking H/Hr or something. There firnedship was so much more prominent in the other books and so was their realationship but it was tottaly screwd up in HBP.

Oh, but no my friend...she didn't cut down on H/hr at all! If you pay attention, you'll see that Harry is depending/wanting Hermione for her advice more than ever. The reason it's so easy for him to rely on an outsider coughGinny!cough is because Hermione (and Ron) are not giving him the attention he desires when he needs it for boosting his theories, but when Hermione does offer it, her words put a damper on his musings and ideas. Like Jo said before, Harry needs Hermione badly. At the end of HBP, their friendship is more prominent and more unbreakable than ever.

one time Ginny laughed at one of Ron's jokes! they're one of my favourite ships. it's so Starwarsy (go Luke and Leia! i mean, who WASN'T hoping they'd get together?). i'm so sure of them happening



First off I fully support Harry and Hermione but this is just ridiculous.
That other part I was just messing around. But To be honest lots of those points where kinda like...hmmmm. They laugh at the same jokes? I mean that doesn't really count. I mean like I said Ginny laughs at Rons jokes but they're not off shagging! Harry's happy to see Hermione, well no duh he's happy to see her. They're friends! why wouldn't he be happy? I was a sad that they're wasn't that much H/Hr moments in HBP. But some of those points are just fishing around for anything. You never know maybe Harry and Hermione will prevail in book 7. I hope so

Pig, your profile says it all:
"The boy that's worth your tears would never make you cry."

But on a better note: state of the ship address coming up sometime soon - but the basic gist applies to this as well, in that:

People accept that Harry and Hermione are best friends. Our job is to prove that they're MORE than best friends.

More than that, though, love just is, and sometimes all the logic in the world won't make it happen. I'm a Harmonian...but I believe that this thread needs some concrete evidence for us to ultimately make an impact.

Keep that in mind, always. That we need to prove that they are more than friends, that the evidence must be in that direction more than anyone else.

This is hard for me to say because there are so many, but one of the main reasons that I believe that Hermione likes Harry and that she and Ron have more of a sibling relationship (rivalry and all), is because I identify with these characters. Because he is the protagonist, and the majority of the story is told from behind his spectacles, I identify with Harry. I love Ron to death (maybe literally in book 7) and I identify with him when I am around my best friend. But, for the fact that I'm a girl, and I identify with her insecurities, as well as her 'voluminous hair,' I most identify with Hermione.

She argues with Ron just as I argue with my brother. We have a very rocky relationship, and, although I know he loves me more than anything in the world, he only does things for me when they are convenient for him, or when he's getting something in return for his actions. What we have is unconditional love in the sense that he is and will always be my brother, and nothing he could do would ever make me stop loving him, but this love rarely provokes selfless acts, on his part, for me.

The way Hermione acts around Harry, however, is almost EXACTLY how I act around guys I like. I'm skilled with subtlety to the point that they just don't get how much I like them. Guys are clueless, thick-headed gits! Although I'll admit that I've never been as close to a straight guy as Hermione is to either Ron or Harry, I came pretty close once. I sat on the bus with him everyday, and then when we started driving, he'd drive me to school when my car broke down. We'd had hundreds of conversations, and I was absolutely obsessed with him, but he was crushing on this German chick at the time, so I didn't try anything; not that I would have because I'm really shy, but that's not the point. I played the platonic game for all the time that I knew him, and I even went so far as to encourage him to ask her out. When he never did, and prom was coming up, I had a talk with him about it almost EXACTLY like Hermione did with Harry in the libarary (aside from the love potions) about Slughorn's party. I was trying to talk him into going. He didn't want to. I told him about my dress, and mentioned that I was trying to watch my weight to fit into it, and he completely pulled a Harry. "Don't you actually have to be fat to look fat?" Compare that to Harry's coment, "But, I don't think you're ugly." Both of these dudes, who look very much alike by the way, are absolutely bewildered and positively clueless! It's driving me spare!

I've just finished my third reading of Book Six. I previously posted a list similar to the following under a thread whose starter actually sought H/H moments in all of the books. But this thread is specifically about such moments in Book Six. Not only is this, my second revised list, considerably longer than the first two, but it's more chronological and considerably more factual. Anyway, here it is:


1) When Harry and Dumbledore were en route to Horace Slughorn's place, Harry quoted Hermione's frequent reminder that Apparition (and by implication, Disapparition) was impossible inside the Hogwarts grounds. He'd not only finally learned that, but he gave Hermione credit too.

2) Slughorn remembered Lily's brilliance as one of his students and his amazement at learning that she'd been Muggle-born, as well as his frequent wish that she'd been in his House, Slytherin (parallelling Flitwick's own frequent wish that Hermione had been in his House, Ravenclaw). Harry, without naming Hermione, then referred to her, stating that she was not only Muggle-born but the best in their year.

3) A few moments later, Harry reflected that Slughorn "seemed...whatever he said to the contrary, much too surprised that a Muggle-born should make a good witch." Clearly, Harry saw this as a slur on Hermione (and possibly on Lily too).

4) At The Burrow, when Crookshanks appeared and jumped on his lap, Harry was openly happy to realize that this meant Hermione was also there.

5) The next morning, when Ron literally slapped him awake, the first words Harry heard from Hermione were, "Ron, don't hit him!"

6) A moment later, perched on the edge of Harry's bed (!), Hermione "[scrutinized him] as though he was sickening for something," and "[watched] him as though expecting strange symptoms to manifest themselves at any moment." Ironically, though, her solicitude toward Harry only aroused his toward her: "Something wrong, Hermione?"

7) When Harry told Ron and Hermione about the prophecy, Hermione said she and Ron had guessed at its content, then she asked Harry, "Are you scared?" But she was, once again, more scared for Harry than he was for himself -- and visibly so.

8) After Harry told Ron and Hermione about his forthcoming private lessons with Dumbledore, Ron expressed the view that Dumbledore "wouldn't be giving you lessons if he thought you were a goner, wouldn't waste his time -- he must think you've got a chance!" Hermione not only readily concurred, but speculated rather hopefully about what would be taught in these lessons: "Really advanced defensive magic, probably...powerful counter-curses...anti-jinxes...and evasive enchantments generally."

9) Hermione rejoiced in the news that Harry had been appointed Gryffindor Quidditch Captain: "That gives you equal status with prefects!" You remember how crestfallen she was in Book Five upon learning that Ron, not Harry, had been appointed her co-prefect.

10) At Madam Malkin's, when Narcissa Malfoy baited Harry into raising his wand to her ("I expect Potter will be reunited with dear Sirius before I am reunited with Lucius"), Hermione protested: "Harry, no! Think...you mustn't...you'll be in such trouble..." At the same time, she grabbed his wand arm and tried to push it down by his side.

11) At Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Hermione looked pointedly at Harry when saying that the Patented Daydream Charms "really [are] extraordinary magic!" Perhaps she was imagining herself and Harry as the two kids on the pirate ship which served as the illustration on the carton? Also, she wasn't scandalized by the charms, as she would have been a year earlier.

12) In their first DADA class with Snape, Harry was bitter about Snape ignoring the way Hermione had repelled Neville's Jelly-Legs Jinx. He reflected that her effort "would surely have earned her 20 points for Gryffindor from any reasonable teacher."

13) After that same class, when Harry ranted about Snape's rhapsodizing over the Dark Arts, Hermione told Harry that it reminded her of his own statement about what it was like to face Voldemort: that it "really came down to being brave and quick-thinking." We then learned that "Harry was so disarmed that she had thought his words as well worth memorizing as THE STANDARD BOOK OF SPELLS that he did not argue."

14) In their first Potions class with Slughorn, that gentleman, admiring Hermione's knowledge of potions and then learning that she was Muggle-born, "beamed and then looked from Hermione to Harry, who was sitting next to her." He realized that this was the friend of whom Harry had told him; but more to the point, it appears that he saw a second James and Lily in the pair, or at least a good match in the present. Hermione was then "radiant" in the knowledge that Harry had thus praised her. (Ron claimed, rather grumpily, "...I'd've told him so if he'd asked me!" But would he have?)

15) After winning the Felix Felicis in that same class, Harry felt guilty about Hermione's visible disappointment -- probably knowing she herself deserved to win it.

16) Just before Harry went off to his first private lesson with Dumbledore, Hermione enthusiastically wished him luck, adding, "We'll wait up, we want to hear what he teaches you!" In this, she completely forgot her annoyance with him of a moment earlier over his use of the Half-Blood Prince's ADVANCED POTION-MAKING textbook (including their mini-argument about the Prince's gender). Perhaps, too, she was hoping Dumbledore could set Harry on the "right" path?

17) When Harry asked Hermione why so many people wanted to try out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team, she told him that he'd "never been more fanciable" (Ron literally choked on this statement, causing Hermione to shoot him a dirty look) now that everyone knew he'd told the truth about Voldemort, and had been persecuted by the Ministry for telling the truth (when she mentioned the "I must not tell lies" scars on Harry's hand, Ron unsuccessfully tried to show her his brain-tentacle scars). It's not clear that she was saying this just as a friend or even just as an observer -- especially when she concluded by noting that he'd grown about a foot! (Ron pointed out, "inconsequentially," that he himself was already tall.)

18) Hermione Confunded Cormac McLaggen out of the Quidditch tryouts, knowing that as a loose cannon he was dangerous to his prospective teammates, including Harry.

19) Later, Hermione pleaded with Harry to accompany her to the Slug Club party, fearing to be alone there with McLaggen and face his wrath alone. (The detention Snape gave Harry got in the way: we didn't see who Hermione ended up going with, if she went at all.)

20) When Hermione reminded Harry and Ron that the Death Eaters at the Quidditch World Cup had used the Levicorpus spell before Harry had, adding that that bunch only hated Muggle-borns and would therefore be "quite happy" to recruit them both, Ron denied that they'd want him: "My whole family are blood traitors! That's as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!" Harry added, "And they'd love to have me. We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in." Hermione, in spite of herself, shared in Ron's amusement at this remark.

21) Later that same day, after Harry talked his way out of another party invitation from Slughorn, Hermione was somewhat disapproving: "They're not that bad, you know...they're even quite fun sometimes..." Then she had to change the subject because Ron was looking at her rather funny.

22) Hermione protested Harry's attack on Mundungus Fletcher at the Three Broomsticks for burglarizing 12 Grimmauld Place (now Harry's property, since Sirius had bequeathed it to him): "Harry, you mustn't!" (Tonks had to break up the attack.) But she empathized with his anger over the burglary, much as she had with his Book Five anger over being kept in the dark all summer. She approved of his idea to tell Dumbledore about the burglary, "clearly pleased that Harry was calming down."

23) After Katie Bell was jinxed by the opal necklace, Hermione suggested to Harry that the necklace might have been intended for him.

24) After Hermione left the Gryffindor Quidditch victory party in a huff (having seen Ron and Lavender snogging so intensely there), Harry found her in an empty classroom being circled by a flock of canaries "which she had clearly just conjured out of midair. Harry could not help admiring her spellwork at a time like this."

25) When a later Slug Club party came up (the Christmas party), Hermione warned Harry about the other girls plotting to slip him love potions, and advised him to pick a "date" for the party so as to discourage them (he picked Luna).

26) When Hermione announced that she would attend that same party with McLaggen, Parvati observed, "Wow, you like your Quidditch players, don't you? First Krum, then McLaggen..." Hermione interrupted her with: "I like really good Quidditch players." Was she hinting that Harry was the best one she knew?

27) At that party, when Harry finally found Hermione, she was openly relieved to see him. He, in turn, was concerned because she looked "distinctly disheveled, rather as if she had just fought her way out of a thicket of Devil's Snare." When she explained that McLaggen had had her trapped under the mistletoe, Harry told her "severely," "Serves you right for coming with him." A moment later, he was "revolted" to learn that she'd considered coming with Zacharias Smith. Granted, Harry wasn't exactly best friends with either of them; but here he apparently felt a little more than protective toward Hermione (though at that moment she probably would have been content with his protectiveness).

28) After Christmas vacation, when Harry told Hermione about the conversation he'd heard between Snape and Draco, Hermione thought (just as Harry predicted) that Snape was pretending to offer help to Draco in order to find out what Draco was up to. Nonetheless, she was finally forced to admit that Harry had been right about Draco planning something.

29) Hermione remembered Draco warning Borgin that Fenrir Greyback was a Malfoy family friend, and would be "dropping in from time to time to make sure you're giving the problem your full attention." She had to remind Harry that he'd also heard Draco make that statement; but ironically, she was willing to dismiss this strong evidence of Draco being a Death Eater as "an empty threat."

30) After Harry told Hermione about his Christmas meeting with Rufus Scrimgeour, Hermione "thought that after all the Ministry had put Harry through the previous year, they had a great nerve asking him for help now."

31) When Hermione failed to find any information on Horcruxes in the Hogwarts library, she was "so shocked [and apologetic], she even forgot that she was annoyed with Harry for his trick with the bezoar [in Potions class]."

32) When Ron suggested "reasonably" that the sight of McLaggen hitting the Bludger at Harry "must've looked funny," Hermione exploded at him: "It wasn't funny at all! It looked terrible, and if Coote and Peakes hadn't caught Harry he could have been very badly hurt!" (Just in passing, one might have expected Ron to have learned something from the Hungarian Horntail incident!)

33) Harry's curiosity about Ginny and Dean's quarrel piqued Hermione's own curiosity: he claimed concern about his Quidditch team being "messed up again," but she wasn't quite convinced. (One can't help tying this in with Ginny's statement near the end: "I never gave up on you. Not really. I always hoped...Hermione told me to get on with life, maybe go out with some other people, relax a bit around you, because I never used to be able to talk if you were in the room, remember? And she thought you might take a bit more notice if I was more -- myself?").

34) After learning of Hokey the house-elf's wrongful conviction (and how the Ministry's prejudice against house-elves had figured in it) for the poisoning death of her mistress Hepzibah Smith, Harry reflected that he "had rarely felt more in sympathy with the society Hermione had set up, S.P.E.W."

35) When Harry thought a potion or a spell might persuade Slughorn to divulge his memory about Voldemort, Hermione said, "Only you can get the memory, Dumbledore says. That must mean you can persuade Slughorn where other people can't."

36) When Kreacher and Dobby appeared in the Gryffindor common room to report to Harry on Draco's comings and goings, Harry hesitated to explain their presence to Hermione because "house-elves were always such a touchy subject with her."

37) When Dobby admitted not having slept for a week, Harry quelled Hermione's indignation by stating, truthfully, that he hadn't ordered that; he then gave Dobby permission to sleep.

38) When Kreacher rewarded Hermione's undeserved praise of his detective work in tailing Draco (most of which Dobby had actually done) by insulting her ("The Mudblood is speaking to Kreacher, Kreacher will pretend he cannot hear"), Harry angrily dismissed him.

39) In DADA class, when Snape belittled Ron's Apparition ability, Hermione stopped Harry from retorting: "No! There's no point, you'll just end up in detention again, leave it!"

40) When Harry got Hagrid's invitation to Aragog's burial, Hermione told him that it was "such a pointless thing to get detention for," and was visibly relieved when he agreed.

41) When Ron remembered that Harry still had the bottle of Felix Felicis, Hermione joined with Ron in urging Harry to get Slughorn's memory by using the potion.

42) When Harry agreed to use the Felix Felicis should he fail to get Slughorn's memory after that day's Potions class, Hermione recited the three D's of Apparition (Destination, Determination, Deliberation) -- apparently implying that Harry needed them in his quest for the memory.

43) Hermione cited the killing of the Montgomery sisters' five-year-old brother by a werewolf (allegedly Fenrir Greyback) as just one reason why Harry had to get the memory: "It's all about stopping Voldemort, isn't it? These dreadful things that are happening are all down to him."

44) When Ron and Hermione went off to their Apparition tests, Harry wished them both good luck; Hermione, "with a significant look," then wished Harry luck with Slughorn after that day's Potions class.

45) Harry heartily congratulated Hermione on passing her Apparition test.

46) Upon learning that Slughorn had been using house-elves as wine tasters ever since Ron had been poisoned, "Harry saw, in his mind's eye, the expression on Hermione's face if she ever learned about this abuse of house-elves, and decided never to mention it to her."

47) When Hermione told Harry about Ginny and Dean's breakup, she observed that this put him "in a bit of a dilemma," and claimed she was referring to the Quidditch team. But perhaps she was being supportive of his feelings for Ginny, as she was in Cho's case (and just in passing, Lavender acted much the same way about Hermione as Cho had in Book Five). From Ginny's aforementioned confession, too, it would appear that Hermione was actually playing matchmaker for her and Harry!

48) When Harry considered using Felix Felicis to help him get into the Room of Requirement, Hermione warned him against what she termed this "complete waste of potion," and added, "You'll need all the luck you can get if Dumbledore takes you along with him..." At this point, so we're told, she "dropped her voice to a whisper," apparently not wanting to think about what might happen to the two.

49) When Harry had difficulty getting private time with Ginny, he thought he caught a smug expression on Hermione's face whenever she spotted him staring at Ginny, or laughing at her jokes. What was up with that? Was Hermione jealous, and therefore delighting in his difficulty?

50) When Ginny pointed out that Harry had used the Sectumsempra spell only because Draco had tried to use the Cruciatus Curse on him, Hermione had to admit, despite the trouble Harry had gotten into from the spell, that she was "glad Harry wasn't cursed!"

51) When Hermione wanted to talk to Harry about the possibility of Eileen Prince having been the Half-Blood Prince, he reflected that "Only the previous day, Hermione had told him off for distracting Ginny when she ought to be working hard for her examinations." Was she that concerned about Ginny's exam performance, or was something else happening there?

52) A few moments later, when Hermione accused Harry of not thinking a girl would be clever enough to be the Half-Blood Prince, Harry countered, "How can I have hung round with you for five years and not think girls are clever?" It seems that stung as he was by this unjust accusation, he couldn't help praising her a little. (Technically, he'd hung around with her for six years by then, so that remark is a blooper.)

53) When Harry returned to the Gryffindor common room just before going off with Dumbledore, Hermione asked him what Dumbledore wanted, then immediately added, "Harry, are you OK?" She added this "anxiously," apparently because of his frantic expression.

54) When Harry told Ron and Hermione that he was going off to the cave with Dumbledore and that Snape and Draco therefore had to be watched, Hermione let out "gasps of horror," and her eyes became "huge with fear."

55) A moment later, when Harry gave the Felix Felicis to Ron and Hermione, Hermione suggested that he needed it more: "No! We don't want it, you take it, who knows what you're going to be facing?"

56) Harry's reply to this was: "I'll be fine, I'll be with Dumbledore. I want to know you lot are OK...don't look like that, Hermione, I'll see you later..." Notice that he addressed these remarks specifically to Hermione.

57) After Dumbledore's death, when Harry arrived in the hospital wing, Hermione ran to him and hugged him.

58) Harry's eyewitness account of Dumbledore's death caused Hermione to clap her hands to her mouth in horror.

59) When Remus expressed disbelief at Dumbledore's acceptance of Snape's professed regret at having aided in his enemy James's death, Harry added, "And he didn't think my mother was worth a d@mn, either, because she was Muggle-born...'Mudblood,' he called her..." Harry had first heard this epithet directed at Hermione, and well knew that Snape held Hermione (even if she was his best student) in little more esteem than he had held Lily. He knew all too well, too, that in him Snape saw a second James. Is it possible, then, that Snape also saw a second Lily in Hermione -- in other words, could Snape have thought, in his way, that Harry and Hermione would make a good couple?

60) When Harry explained that the Death Eaters had gotten into the castle through the Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirement, which Draco had repaired so that it connected to the one at Borgin and Burke's, Hermione looked devastated, apparently because she'd kept after Harry to stop "messing around outside the Room of Requirement."

61) Hermione's shame- and guilt-ridden account of how she and Luna had followed Snape's instructions to tend to the "collapsed" Flitwick while Snape went to fight alongside the invading Death Eaters, was directed specifically to Harry.

62) As with the Horcruxes, Hermione was apologetic toward Harry for having failed to find information in the library about the identity of "R.A.B.," who had removed the real Horcrux locket from the cave. But she did manage to find out that Eileen Prince, a pure-blood, had been Snape's mother, and that his father, Tobias Snape, had been a Muggle.

63) Harry, hearing this, bitterly realized that Snape was "just like Voldemort...ashamed of his parentage, trying to make himself feared using the Dark Arts, [giving] himself an impressive new name..." He then realized, acknowledging that this was thanks to Hermione, that Snape had taken him in much as he, Snape, had done to Dumbledore.

64) When Harry agonized over not having alerted Dumbledore about the Potions book, Hermione told him he was blaming himself too much for Dumbledore's death.

65) When Harry broke up with Ginny, Ginny recounted the advice Hermione had given her about attracting Harry; Harry then praised Hermione's intelligence.

66) After Harry rejected for a second time Scrimgeour's offer to make him the Ministry's "poster boy" in exchange for inside information on Dumbledore, Hermione approached him immediately to ask what Scrimgeour had wanted.

67) After she and Ron heard Harry's reply, Hermione, in spite of herself, joined in Harry's amusement at Ron's remark that hitting Percy would "make me feel better!"

68) When Harry announced his non-intention of returning to Hogwarts, Hermione said she'd expected it. Then she joined with Ron in saying that the two would go with Harry wherever he went. She'd give up her N.E.W.T. year for Harry?

omg so many wonderful book moments!! now if only the Herons could realize this!

wow I never paid attention to those thanks

OK so maybe I'm a little off my rocker here (happens a lot) But the things that Harry feels for Ginny compared to the way Tom Riddle acted with the Gaunt girl ( i cant remember her first name) are basicly the same they both without ever looking at or thinking about either of the girls suddenly cant get enough of them. We KNOW that Gaunt used a love potion, we know that Harry had no prior fellings for Ginny, and Ginny was very intrested in the Love Potions Fred and Goerge were making. And that Ginny was being paticularly rude to Hermione.." Dont talk about Quiddich...you'll only embarrass yourself" Hermione was trying to help Harry... I woulnd not put it past Ginny to use a love potion.....and that Hermione thinks something along those lines and that is why she is so out of character in HBP.. so yea...

to be honest....that makes a lot of sense.....after what Romilda did and the scene in the Shop isn't it possible??

This is not H/Hr moment, but quite interesting nonetheless!



First of all, when Ron said 'I can't stop thinking about her!' I thought he meant Hermione (hey, I almost got a heart attack for the first time reading, don't blame me)! Harry first asks if Ron implies Lav-Lav, then Ron goes with sort of "no". After that Harry is lost. But WTF? Why didn't he think Ron implies Hermione. I mean, Harry had felt something is between them, imagined them "under the influence of butterbeer in Slughorn's dimly lit room". But here you go.

Simpified dialogue would look like

Harry:
- Are you talking about Lavender?
Ron:
- No!
Harry:
- Hermione then?!
Ron:
- Romilda Vane! Oh God

But what we have is the first part. Harry didn't suggest Hermione.


You know, at the moment Ron said 'I can't stop thinking about her!', I thought we gonna have some serious talk about feelings for the first time in HBP books! But nope, it was just a stupid love potion. Funny...

I thought that too, and almost had a seizure! So you're not the only one! lol



This was one of my favorite moments. I loved Harry being bitter on Hermione's behalf, he wanted his girl to get some credit

I know the feeling! I stopped breathing for a minute and nearly started to cry. Then he said it was Romilda Vane....and then I just got confused.

We all remember a moment when Hermione quotes Harry, which makes him wander



This of course is sweet indeed. But you forget that earlier in the book Harry actually did the same referring to Hermione

I love those moments Kiru Biru, thanks for posting them! It's amazing how they remember what the other one says, how they hold each other in such high regard. I can't help but think moments like these mean something, that we're supposed to notice them.

Another moment that comes to mind is when the trio goes to visit Hagrid and Umbridge shows up (book 5). They have to hide under the cloak and Umbridge comes very near to where they're standing.

OoTP page #386, British paperback edition:
Hermione gasped; Harry clapped a hand over her mouth.
I can't help but think that Harry and Hermione seem to be very comfortable touching each other.

And..

OoTP page #388, Brithish paperback edition:
She left, closing the door behind her with a snap. Harry made to pull off the Invisibility Cloak but Hermione seized his wrist.
'Not yet,' she breathed in his ear. 'She might not be gone yet.'

I was only going to leave in one of these moments that I wanted to make a comment about but I couldn't help it. The above moments are my favourites and I just wanted to congratulate you on putting together such a thorough list.

Now I wanted to comment on number 14 and Ron's "I'd've told him if he'd asked me" comment. Slughorn never asked Harry "Who is the best in the year and is that person a pureblood or muggleborn?" Harry volunteered the information that 'His friend was the best in the year and she was a muggleborn.' My question is would Ron in the same circumstances had the same response and volunteered that information? I think JKR deliberatly wrote the scene that way to make us realise that he wouldn't have and show us that Harry does hold Hermione in higher esteem than Ron does.

Hehehehe Harry

OoTP page #388, Brithish paperback edition:
She left, closing the door behind her with a snap. Harry made to pull off the Invisibility Cloak but Hermione seized his wrist.
'Not yet,' she breathed in his ear. 'She might not be gone yet.'

BREATHED IN HIS EAR oooooo that sound sexy.

I know! That's happened in three of the books now! (well, one was reversed) It happened in OotP, in HBP, and in PoA (except it was Harry whispering in Hermione's ear) I love it!

That was just my thinking; and I think that Ron would have been so "honored" to be talking to a teacher as an equal that would have been red all the time and wouldn't say a word.

In order for Harry to clap a hand over her mouth, they'd have to be VERY close to each other....in fact turned toward each other. If they were standing side by side (which I doubt with all of them under that cloak) Harry would have to reach across himself to cover her mouth. That's a large movement that could have rustled the cloak, made noise and given themselves away.

I say Harry and Hermione were huddled close facing each other so he could easily bring a hand up to her mouth and probably pull her close to him. It would be a natural movement if you ask me.

On the other note, H/Hr are VERY comfortable with touching each other. Some of my best mates (whom I love dearly) I wouldn't hug them hard enough to knock over, or as in Grimmauld have to be told by another friend (Ron) to let go *ahem*....they're constantly holding onto each other, etc....

In the DoM Hermione could have easily grabbed for Ron who was standing RIGHT THERE...Nope, she's holding onto Harry for the millionth time. Harry could have grabbed Ginny or anyone in the DoM in the aisle of prophecies...nope, he grabs for Hermione only.

They're constantly hanging onto each other through the whole bloody series...and we're not supposed to notice any of it?

Heather

Hi - you all have some great examples, and I wanted to add a comment(sorry if it's already been mentioned ). Don't you think that Ron's statement to Hermione during the longest-H/Hr-hug-ever (until the end of HBP) in the beginning of OoTP - "let him breathe" -- don't you think that was almost prophetic? Because in HBP she did let him go and "breathe" the carefree life ... and, yet, at the end of HBP, she hangs on to him again,and he's refocused again. These two hugs between them seemed more symbolic somehow. This made a lot more sense in my head!

I really liked this moment. What I find amusing is that Hermione tells Harry to pick a date twice: first in the library and then again in the common room. Maybe I'm delirious but it sounded like Hermione was almost telling Harry to to pick her.

No, you're not delirious. I get that same impression after re-reading. Harry was her first choice as was pointed out to me by another wonderful poster! Something like 40 pages prior to asking Ron (her friend) to come as a mercy offering to the long-suffering and rejected Ron.

I noticed this in OotP Im not sure what pageits on or what chapter well here it is



"Oh," said Ron, his smile fading slightly. "Are you that bad at kissing?"
"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



Now how would Hermione know that????

Im not sure if this is a hint or not

Excatly.... Does Hermione have a serect passion to snog her pillow and pretend its Harry? Of this we will never know. Unless someone goes with me to steal J.Ks plans for the 7th bnook and change it so Harry And Hermione get together, ans then set it up so J.K will never notice. (i'm sure she will... woman is a genuis)

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I really liked this moment. What I find amusing is that Hermione tells Harry to pick a date twice: first in the library and then again in the common room. Maybe I'm delirious but it sounded like Hermione was almost telling Harry to to pick her.
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No, you're not delirious. I get that same impression after re-reading. Harry was her first choice as was pointed out to me by another wonderful poster! Something like 40 pages prior to asking Ron (her friend) to come as a mercy offering to the long-suffering and rejected Ron.
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Liked that moment too. I think she has wanted to go with him before because she seemd so diappointed that he kept missing the slug club meetings. She even told him that they are not that bad and that she hoped he would go--don't have my book with me---have been so tempted to torch it.

This does seem odd. If she was so interested in Ron, why would she be after Harry? Of course, she could be trying to date Harry so Ron would get reall jealous.

In the part where Harry talks severely to Hermione, I beg do disagree that it is because Hermione kissed Mclaggen. There were no proofs that it happened. It was only said that Hermione deliberately left Mclaggen under the mistletoe. I was under the impression that Mclaggen wanted a kiss but Hermione didn't comply. And frankly, I think that Harry would notice right away if Hermione did snog Mclaggen. I think that Harry talked severely to Hermione because Harry didn't liked the idea of Hermione kissing someone. A bit possesive on the part of Mr. Potter, don't you think?

Simply Delusional!

This is a book, so if we're told that it happened, it happened. The only way to negate this is for the writer to show us the actual event or have another explaination which includes the contradicting statement. We cannot ignore because we don't like what it says.

I totally agree....harry doesn't seem to be happy with the idea of someone kissing hermione.

Umm....delusional anyone

I can't help thinking Hermione went out with McLaggen because of Harry, not because of Ron.
Why did she started to wish she'd chosen Smith? Because of Harry's reaction. He is obviously irritated against her about her choice of date, but when she mentions Smith he's very revolted, and maybe jealous. And why her tone is "dispassionate"? Because of McLaggen's behaviour towards her? No. Because Harry still ignore her as a possible dating. So delusional, I know But I can dream

ok I'm a little confused on this part if JKR is going to make it where Hermione and Ron get together and Ginny and Harry get back together why did she put this moment in HBP:


"Oh, come on Harry,"said Hermione,suddenly impatient. "Its not Qudditch that's popular its you! You've never been more interesting and frankly you've never been more fanciable".
Then Ron gagged on a large piece of kipper.
Then it goes on to Hermione saying why people are fasinated by him.
Then it says Harry was finding the great hall very hot all of a sudden,even though the ceiling still looked cold and rainy.


*sigh*I'm sooo confused on that part.But it was a great H/Hr moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm really confused at that part too lol but it cracks me up for some reason

I think she's dispassionate because she's keeping her emotions in check. She doesn't want Harry to see what she really feels, that and the fact that she could get a more honest response from Harry if he thought that she wasn't emotional, herself. Hermione is nothing if not dignified (it's one of her priorities, at least).

However, it also bears mentioning that being dispassionate about this scheme of hers to "annoy Ron" suggests that she could be a cold-hearted b*tch when it comes to him. What a way to have deep and meaningful relationship... :

I agree that it's a great H/Hr moment! I just wonder how JKR could possibly explain that this particular 'H/Hr moment' isn't meant to be one at all. That we (Harmonians) need to go back and re-read the book. That we should know by now that it's R/HR! That Harry's ideal girl is Ginny, so how could this possibly mean H/HR? Yada, Yada, Yada. Well, duh! You wrote it Jo! It's right there in black and white, right in the chapter that you clearly indicated it as H/Hr!!! Explain that!

I apologize for the rant.... but honestly!

Hey,

Everybody that is stressing over HBP flashbacks need to relax and have a smoothie. Chill out guys Harry and Hermione WILL have their day in the sun . JK knows what she is doing and I simply don't believe that crap she pumped Herons and chocos to make them bow down to her greatness because they got their way. I think for alot of them (not all of them) it is all about being right instead of looking at the relationships. Harry and Ginny did happen but whether or not Chocos and Herons want to believe it H/G ended. Its canon now.

All we have to do is keep the faith! Bring on Book 7, I'm ready for some sweet pumpkin pie and pile on the fluffy whipped cream Jo I can take it!

I love that moment. The first time I read it, I had to read it twice, and the first thought that came to my mind was "I can't believe she just said that!"

Other good HBP moments: (I don't have my book with me, so I'm not gonna get these right)

The part where they're fighting and then Harry says "How can I hang around you for five years and not think girls were clever?" it was just so cute.....

And one spot that really threw me for a loop was when the three of them were under the cloak in Diagon Alley, and then they follow Malfoy, and Hermione breathes in his ear. First thought: "Wow, that was sexy...." But all in all, it was a pretty dissapointing book...and confusing.

It was really weird how the password was 'abstinence'.
What was the point of that?
I mean, of course I liked it...it made me giggle.
But honestly! Haha.

I also LOVED that part where Hermione seemed so very angry at Harry for 'not thinking girls were clever'. I couldn't believe she took it so far...and then Harry, with his reply! Loved it. There were many moments I loved.

"which she had clearly just conjured out of midair. Harry could not help admiring her spellwork at a time like this."

At a time like what?
Where she was 'in love'?
Like how Tonks COULDN'T DO while she was sick-in-love with Remus?


Anyway, you know, after reading and re-reading these moments...I am more confident than ever in H/Hr.