There’s no excuse-she wanted to look at her best friend… Oh, if only JKR hadn’t interfered by forcing the romances to progress, right? Let me dream! 😂

“Oh, but Harry was using Polyjuice Potion pretending to be a Weasley, so Hermione was actually thinking about Ron when she looked at Harry.”

Bro… I laughed out loud when I heard that for the first time.

Like, following that “logic,” instead of Hermione doing all that useless work, wouldn’t it have been easier for her to just look at Ron, who was also at the wedding? Imao.

This is one of the most romantic parts of the books for me-not because of a kiss or a touch, but because of its symbolism. It’s a moment that says more than a thousand words, a simple passage that means a lot but can’t be spoken aloud. It’s a glimpse of what could have been.

It’s Hermione using the last window of opportunity she has before everything goes downhill in a war, before things end up the way they did, and saying: “It could have been us. I wish it were me with you there.”

I made the meme because it’s almost comical- because it’s in the books… along with the other ton of moments the movies didn’t cover.

Just imagine having this exact same scene in the movies? Remove ALL the HHr scenes that the fandom complains aren’t canon, like the tent dance and all the rest, and leave this scene here.

Everyone would be biting their tongues and could never say anything, because guess what? It’s canon. And this? Symbolic proof of love, at the very least.