06/22/2003 - 10:10 p.m. | i love you, harry potter

"And yet, he thought as they joined the queue lining up outside Snape's classroom door, she had chosen to come and talk to him, hadn't she? She had been Cedric's girlfriend; she could have easily hated Harry for coming out of the Triwizard maze alive when Cedric had died, yet she was talking to him in a perfectly friendly way, not as though she thought him mad, or a liar, or in some horrible way responsible for Cedric's death.... Yes, she had definitely chosen to come and talk to him, and that made the second time in two days..."

"Of course, she had preferred Cedric, he knew that... Though if he'd only asked her to the ball before Cedric had, things might have turned out differently... She had seemed sincerely sorry that she had to refuse when Harry had asked her..."

That Rowling has mastered the romantic logic of a teenage boy is noteworthy in itself. Add wizards to that and you've got some damn good shit.