Okay, so

[teceler]

I was hoping this would happen, and I was kinda expecting her to test it with a message to Terry, but I was not expecting to be nearly so happy reading it.

I kind of have complicated feelings about the gesture itself, but that it does this is good.

(...and I have no idea how Terry is going to respond! that should be interesting)

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[kiya]

I am watching Terry a little nervously, to be honest. (Some of his previous explosions about Harry have really rather come across to me as "How dare he own you when I want you to be mine" and, erm, I don't think he grasps the irony of the Nice Guy-ism.)

[worthywords]

Oh, he's posted.

Now I wonder how Harry will react. How much is Harry aware of Terry's attitude, anyway?

[teceler]

...huh. That... wasn't how I was reading that at all (I was reading it as Terry resenting Hermione still being in that position (and maybe feeling guilty about being free when she wasn't) and lashing out at Harry as the obvious/most convenient target.)

That's... huh.

I'm going to have to think about that.

(Now I want to go reread all the relevant posts! Damn you!*)

*this is sarcasm. Just to be clear, because, well, text-only medium isn't the best at conveying that.

[contrariwise]

I feel a bit sorry for Terry because I can't tell how Hermione feels about him at all. I mean, she cares about him, but I have no clue if it's just as friends or if she did care about him as more than friends before Carrow took him away and it might have gotten stronger if not for that, or if she really does have some feelings for Draco, or what.

But if Terry figures out Draco's got feelings for her, that's going to be really interesting.

[teceler]

If I'm remembering right, she didn't seem upset by him kissing her (in the sort of way she might she didn't think of him in that way), back right before Carrow took him away, but that might have just not showed up with everything else going on then. I'd have to reread, and make guesses based on her tone when talking about the stuff surrounding that (her protective charm going off (which I do recall her being...rather upset...about, but somehow I would suspect she would have been in either case), and, well, Carrow)

Anyway, I really can't tell how she feels in the present.

(And, oh, if Draco does and Terry finds out--or even if he doesn't and Terry thinks he does--that could get nasty really easily. (and actually maybe for reasonable reasons, at least in part, because there are way too many ways that could go horribly wrong even with the Order and ISS. And yes, nothing along those lines has happened, and probably will not (especially with Draco's issues (though, as a total tangent, are we sure he isn't asexual? I've seen the possibility of him being gay brought up, but not that) ) but there's still enough potential with the power differential there that I really wouldn't blame anyone for worrying) )

...that bracket just kind of got very nested. Very very nested. Oops?

[contrariwise]

I suppose he could be asexual, I'd never thought of that. I tend to assume he's heterosexual because of how his relationship with Pansy felt -- it felt real, and like they were attracted to each other, but that he just had a lot of intimacy issues. I actually can't remember why he would have those apart, perhaps, from a tendency to put her on a pedestal. There was an entry once about "being the man she deserves, the man she thinks you are," and that really sounded to me like he had some serious self-loathing that was making him see her as some pure perfect thing, which could've made him reluctant to "defile" her. But I guess I don't know for sure, he's so guarded. For good reason, but...

...well, I still get the impression that he has feelings for Hermione now (though I also feel like he does a little bit of the pedestal thing with her too). It's funny though, because I'm not sure whether I want that to happen or if I want Hermione and Terry or what. Sort of, I suppose, like I was terribly torn over the Sally-Anne/Ron/Daphne thing.

[teceler]

Re: Draco's relationship with Pansy: I definitely don't think he's aromantic, but he could be asexual and still have a perfectly real romantic relationship with Pansy.

I mean, he could perfectly well have intimacy issues instead, but I started to comment on that and then went, well, y'know, I'm completely ignoring a possibility here...

Either way, I agree that he definitely has some serious self-worth issues.

I honestly can't tell if he has feelings for Hermione or regards her as a friend. I can see arguments for either, really. (Also I've been kinda avoiding this discussion because I have issues with that ship in the current context, which you... might have noticed. Just, possibly /tongue-in-cheek)

[contrariwise]

Got distracted by the Draco stuff and forgot this was about Terry, ha.

I know that Hermione snapped at someone, I can't remember who, under the ISS lock about how she can't date even if she wants to. Apart from that, and maybe a bit of jealousy over Draco... well, she hasn't seemed too into anyone lately. So though that outburst could be taken to mean she wants to be dating someone in particular, I have no idea which of them, if either, if anyone, it would be about. Did she seem to have any interest in Draco back when she said that? I can't even remember when it was, sometime in the last year or two maybe.

There was a lot going on when Terry kissed her. I got the impression at the time that she didn't mind him kissing her, but I'm a shipper. And when you can't see someone like you used to, and then you're seeing someone else a lot more...

[teceler]

Tangents are fun.

Yeah, I remember that. I think that was when she was helping set Harry and Katie Bell up? And yeah, that could be taken and wanting to date someone in particular, but it could also be generalized frustration with her position (which is how I think I took it at the time?) and it is frustratingly hard to tell.

Yes, yes there was. That's kind of the problem.
And yeah, I'm not sure how much how she felt then influences how she feels now and...yeah.