This was great! I don't know if I'm ever going to be very enthusiastic about R/H, but at least you've given me a little sympathy for Ron in that scene now.
But from the boys' pov it may be more straightforward: you make an effort to look pretty for him and not for me. Ron spends time with the bushy-haired Hermione who snaps and nags. Viktor comes along and she goes to great lengths to do what Ron isn't worth--get dolled up.
In that case, his Christmas gift of "really interesting" perfume in OotP (I think it was) takes on a new meaning: "Do that for me!"
(Harry knows it, but perhaps a "real" Harry, one who isn't really a fictional construct written by a woman, would not)
Oh, I dunno. I think Harry's already verging on being a caricature of the insensitive/self-centered male at times. The fact that he does spot these dynamics once in a while makes him more realistic, as far as I'm concerned.
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But from the boys' pov it may be more straightforward: you make an effort to look pretty for him and not for me. Ron spends time with the bushy-haired Hermione who snaps and nags. Viktor comes along and she goes to great lengths to do what Ron isn't worth--get dolled up.
In that case, his Christmas gift of "really interesting" perfume in OotP (I think it was) takes on a new meaning: "Do that for me!"
(Harry knows it, but perhaps a "real" Harry, one who isn't really a fictional construct written by a woman, would not)
Oh, I dunno. I think Harry's already verging on being a caricature of the insensitive/self-centered male at times. The fact that he does spot these dynamics once in a while makes him more realistic, as far as I'm concerned.