Ron and Hermione

All quotes are taken directly from the British edition of the book.

'Krum!' said Ron. 'Viktor Krum, the Bulgarian Seeker!'
'He looks really grumpy,' said Hermione, looking around at the many Krums blinking and scowling at them.
'"Really grumpy"?' Ron raised his eyes to the heavens. 'Who cares what he looks like? He's unbelievable. He's really young, too. Only just eighteen or something. He's a genius, you wait until tonight, you'll see.'
- Chapter 7

'Hermione's a witch,' Harry snarled.
'Have it your own way, Potter,' said Malfoy, grinning maliciously. 'If you think they can't spot a Mudblood, stay where you are.'
'You watch your mouth!' shouted Ron. Everybody present knew that 'Mudblood' was a very offensive term for a witch or wizard of Muggle parentage.
'Never mind, Ron,' said Hermione quickly, seizing Ron's arm to restrain him as he took a step towards Malfoy.
- Chapter 9

'But Hogwarts is hidden,' said Hermione, in surprise. 'Everyone knows that . . . well, everyone who's read Hogwarts, A History, anyway.'
'Just you then,' said Ron.

Laughing once more, Malfoy beckoned to Crabbe and Goyle, and the three of them disappeared.
Ron got to his feet and slammed the sliding compartment door so hard behind them that the glass shattered.
'Ron!' said Hermione reproachfully, and she pulled out her wand, muttered 'Reparo!', and the glass shards flew back into a single pane, and back into the door.
'Well...making it look like he knows everything and we don't...' Ron snarled. 'Father's always associated with the top people at the Ministry...Dad could've got promotion any time...he just likes it where he is...'
'Of course he does,' said Hermione quietly. 'Don't let Malfoy get to you, Ron -'
'Him! Get to me! As if!' said Ron, picking up one of the remaining Cauldron Cakes and squashing it into a pulp.
- Chapter 11

'Treacle tart, Hermione!' said Ron, deliberately wafting its smell toward her. 'Spotted dick, look! Chocolate gateau!'
But Hermione gave him a look so reminiscent of Professor McGonagall that he gave up.
- Chapter 12

'You're eating again, I notice,' said Ron, watching Hermione adding liberal amounts of jam to her toast too.
'I've decided there are better ways of making a stand about elf rights,' said Hermione haughtily.
;Yeah . . . and you were hungry,' said Ron, grinning.
- Chapter 13

Hermione sat down, laid the things she was carrying in an empty armchair and pulled Ron's predictions towards her.
'Not going to have a very good month, are you?' she said sardonically, as Crookshanks curled up in her lap.
'Ah well, at least I'm forewarned,' Ron yawned.
'You seem to be drowning twice,' said Hermione.
'Oh, am I?' said Ron, peering down at his predictions. 'I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff.'
'Don't you think it's a bit obvious you've made these up?' said Hermione.
'How dare you!' said Ron, in mock outrage. 'We've been working like house-elves here!'
Hermione raised her eyebrows.
'It's just an expression,' said Ron hastily.
- Chapter 14

'We start by recruiting members,' said Hermione happily. 'I thought two Sickles to join - that buys a badge - and the proceeds can fund our leaflet campaign. You're treasurer, Ron - I've got you a collecting tin upstairs - and Harry, you're secretary, so you might want to write down everything I'm saying now, as a record of our first meeting.'
There was a pause in which Hermione beamed at the pair of them, and Harry sat, torn between exasperation at Hermione, and amusement at the look on Ron's face.
- Chapter 14

'Excuse me, I don't like people just because they're handsome!' said Hermione indignantly.
Ron gave a loud false cough, which sounded oddly like 'Lockhart!'.
- Chapter 15

'Furnunculus!' Harry yelled.
'Densaugeo!' screamed Malfoy.
Jets of light shot from both wands, hit each other in mid-air, and ricocheted off at angles - Harry's hit Goyle in the face, and Malfoy's hit Hermione. Goyle bellowed and put his hands to his nose, where great ugly boils were springing up - Hermione, whimpering in panic, was clutching her mouth.
'Hermione!' Ron had hurried forwards to see what was wrong with her.
- Chapter 18

'What about Ron though?' he said. 'Don't you want to go with him?'
'Oh . . . well . . .' Hermione went slightly pink. 'I thought we might meet up with him in the Three Broomsticks. . . .'
- Chapter 19

'Evil, he is,' Ron said bitterly that night in the Gryffindor common room. 'Springing a test on us on the last day. Ruining the last bit of term with a whole load of revision.'
'Mmm...you're not exactly straining yourself, though, are you?' said Hermione, looking at him over the top of her Potions notes. Ron was busy building a card castle out of his Exploding Snap pack - a much more interesting pastime than with Muggle cards, because of the chance that the whole thing would blow up at any second.
- Chapter 22

'Well - you know,' said Ron, shrugging, 'I'd rather go alone than with - with Eloise Midgen, say.'
'Her acne's loads better lately - and she's really nice!'
'Her nose is off-centre,' said Ron.
'Oh, I see,' Hermione said, bristling. 'So basically, you're going to take the best-looking girl who'll have you, even if she's completely horrible?'
'Er - yeah, that sounds about right,' said Ron.
'I'm going to bed,' Hermione snapped, and she swept off towards the girls' staircase without another word.
- Chapter 22

'All the good-looking ones taken, Ron?' said Hermione loftily. 'Eloise Midgen starting to look quite pretty now, is she? Well, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who'll have you.'
But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light. 'Hermione, Neville's right - you are a girl...'
- Chapter 22

'Oh, did I?' said Hermione, and her eyes flashed dangerously. 'Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!'
- Chapter 22

'Hermione - who are you going to the ball with?' said Ron.
He kept springing this question on her, hoping to startle her into a response by asking it when she least expected it.
- Chapter 23

'Right,' said Ron, looking around. 'Where's Hermione?'
- Chapter 23

'Hi,' said Ron, not looking at her, but staring around at the crowd. 'Oh, no...'
He bent his knees slightly to hide behind Harry, because Fleur Delacour was passing, looking stunning in robes of silver-grey satin, and accompanied by the Ravenclaw Quidditch captain, Roger Davies. When they had disappeared, Ron stood straight again and stared over the heads of the crowd.
'Where is Hermione?' he said again.
- Chapter 23

'How's it going?' Harry asked Ron, sitting down and opening a bottle of Butterbeer.
Ron didn't answer. He was glaring at Hermione and Krum, who were dancing nearby. Padma was sitting with her arms and legs crossed, one foot jiggling in time to the music. Every now and then she threw a disgruntled look at Ron, who was completely ignoring her. Parvati sat down on Harry's other side, crossed her arms and legs too, and within minutes, was asked to dance by a boy from Beauxbatons.
'You don't mind, do you, Harry?' Parvati said.
'What?' said Harry, who was now watching Cho and Cedric.
'Oh, never mind,' snapped Parvati, and she went off with the boy from Beauxbatons. When the song ended, she did not return.
Hermione came over and sat down in Parvati's empty chair. She was a bit pink in the face from dancing.
'Hi,' said Harry. Ron didn't say anything.
'It's hot, isn't it?' said Hermione, fanning herself with her hand. 'Viktor's just gone to get some drinks.'
Ron gave her a withering look.
'Viktor?' he said. 'Hasn't he asked you to call him Vicky yet?'
Hermione looked at him in surprise.
'What's up with you?' she said.
'If you don't know,' said Ron scathingly, 'I'm not going to tell you.'
Hermione stared at him, then at Harry, who shrugged. 'Ron, what -?'
'He's from Durmstrang!' spat Ron. 'He's competing against Harry! Against Hogwarts! You - you're -' Ron was obviously casting around for words strong enough to describe Hermione's crime, 'fraternising with the enemy, that's what you're doing!'
Hermione's mouth fell open.
'Don't be so stupid!' she said after a moment. 'The enemy! Honestly - who was the one who was all excited when they saw him arrive? Who was the one who wanted his autograph? Who's got a model of him up in their dormitory?'
Ron chose to ignore this. 'I s'pose he asked you to come with him while you were both in the library?'
'Yes, he did,' said Hermione, the pink patches on her cheeks glowing more brightly. 'So what?'
'What happened - trying to get him to join spew, were you?'
'No, I wasn't! If you really want to know, he - he said he'd been coming up to the library every day to try and talk to me, but he hadn't been able to pluck up the courage!'
Hermione said this very quickly, and blushed so deeply that she was the same colour as Parvati's robes.
'Yeah, well - that's his story,' said Ron nastily.
'And what's that supposed to mean?'
'Obvious, isn't it? He's Karkaroff's student, isn't he? He knows who you hang around with...he's just trying to get closer to Harry - get inside information on him - or get near enough to jinx him -'
Hermione looked as though Ron had slapped her. When she spoke, her voice quivered. 'For your information, he hasn't asked me one single thing about Harry, not one -'
Ron changed tack at the speed of light. 'Then he's hoping you'll help him find out what his egg means! I suppose you've been putting your heads together during those cosy little library sessions -'
'I'd never help him work out that egg!' said Hermione, looking outraged. 'Never. How could you say something like that - I want Harry to win the Tournament. Harry knows that, don't you, Harry?'
'You've got a funny way of showing it,' sneered Ron.
'This whole Tournament's supposed to be about getting to know foreign wizards and making friends with them!' said Hermione shrilly.
'No, it isn't!' shouted Ron. 'It's about winning!'
People were starting to stare at them.
'Ron,' said Harry quietly, 'I haven't got a problem with Hermione coming with Krum -'
But Ron ignored Harry too.
'Why don't you go and find Vicky, he'll be wondering where you are,' said Ron.
'Don't call him Vicky!' Hermione jumped to her feet, and stormed off across the dance floor, disappearing into the crowd.
Ron watched her go with a mixture of anger and satisfaction on his face.
'Are you going to ask me to dance at all?' Padma asked him.
'No,' said Ron, still glaring after Hermione.
- Chapter 23

The Fat Lady and her friend Vi were snoozing in the picture over the portrait hole. Harry had to yell 'Fairy lights!' before he woke them up, and when he did, they were extremely irritated. He climbed into the common room, and found Ron and Hermione having a blazing row. Standing ten feet apart, they were bellowing at each other, each scarlet in the face.
'Well, if you don't like it, you know what the solution is, don't you?' yelled Hermione; her hair was coming down out of its elegant bun now, and her face was screwed up in anger.
'Oh yeah?' Ron yelled back. 'What's that?'
'Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!'
Ron mouthed soundlessly like a goldfish out of water as Hermione turned on her heel and stormed up the girls' staircase to bed. Ron turned to look at Harry.
'Well,' he spluttered, looking thunderstruck, 'well - that just proves - completely missed the point -'
Harry didn't say anything. He liked being back on speaking terms with Ron too much to speak his mind right now - but he somehow thought that Hermione had got the point much better than Ron had.
- Chapter 23

Fleur bent down, kissed Harry twice on each cheek (he felt his face burn and wouldn't have been surprised if steam was coming out of his ears again), then said to Ron, 'And you, too - you 'elped -'
'Yeah,' said Ron, looking extremely hopeful, 'yeah, a bit -'
Fleur swooped down on him, too, and kissed him. Hermione looked simply furious, but just then, Ludo Bagman's magically magnified voice boomed out beside them, making them all jump, and causing the crowd in the stands to go very quiet.
- Chapter 26

'But I had my wand hidden up my sleeve,' he assured Padma Patil, who seemed to be a lot keener on Ron now that he was getting so much attention, and was making a point of talking to him every time they passed in the corridors. 'I could've taken those mer-idiots any time I wanted.'
'What were you going to do, snore at them?' said Hermione waspishly. People had been teasing her so much about being the thing that Viktor Krum would most miss that she was in a rather tetchy mood.
Ron's ears went red, and he reverted thereafter to the bewitched-sleep version of events.
- Chapter 27

'There's something funny, though,' said Hermione ten minutes later, holding her pestle suspended over a bowl of scarab beetles. 'How could Rita Skeeter have known...?'
'Known what?' said Ron quickly. 'You haven't been mixing up Love Potions, have you?'
'Don't be stupid,' Hermione snapped, starting to pound up her beetles again. 'No, it's just...how did she know Viktor asked me to visit him over the summer?'
Hermione blushed scarlet as she said this, and determinedly avoided Ron's eyes.
'What?' said Ron, dropping his pestle with a loud clunk.
'He asked me right after he'd pulled me out of the lake,' Hermione muttered. 'After he'd got rid of his shark's head. Madam Pomfrey gave us both blankets and then he sort of pulled me away from the judges so they wouldn't hear, and he said, if I wasn't doing anything over the summer, would I like to -'
'And what did you say?' said Ron, who had picked up his pestle and was grinding it on the desk, a good six inches from his bowl, because he was looking at Hermione.
'And he did say he'd never felt the same way about anyone else,' Hermione went on, going so red now that Harry could almost feel the heat coming from her, 'but how could Rita Skeeter have heard him? She wasn't there...or was she? Maybe she has got an Invisibility Cloak, maybe she sneaked into the grounds to watch the second task...'
'And what did you say?' Ron repeated, pounding his pestle down so hard that it dented the desk.
- Chapter 27

'Oh, come off it, Hermione,' said Ron impatiently, 'I know Dumbledore's brilliant and everything, but that doesn't mean a really clever Dark wizard couldn't fool
him -'
'Why did Snape save Harry's life in the first year, then? Why didn't he just let him die?'
'I dunno - maybe he thought Dumbledore would kick him out -'
'What d'you think, Sirius?' Harry said loudly, and Ron and Hermione stopped bickering to listen.
'I think they've both got a point,' said Sirius, looking thoughtfully at Ron and Hermione.
- Chapter 27

'You couldn't keep your mouth shut, could you, Hermione?' said Ron angrily, as the kitchen door slammed shut behind them. 'They won't want us visiting them now! We could've tried to get more stuff out of Winky about Crouch!'
'Oh, as if you care about that!' scoffed Hermione. 'You only like coming down here for the food!'
It was an irritable sort of day after that. Harry got so tired of Ron and Hermione sniping at each other over their homework in the common room that he took Sirius' food up to the Owlery that evening on his own.
- Chapter 28

'We will see each uzzer again, I 'ope,' said Fleur, as she reached him, holding out her hand. 'I am 'oping to get a job 'ere, to improve my Eenglish.'
'It's very good already,' said Ron, in a strangled sort of voice. Fleur smiled at him; Hermione scowled.
- Chapter 37

'Oh...yes...all right,' said Hermione, looking slightly flustered, and following Krum through the crowd and out of sight.
'You'd better hurry up!' Ron called loudly after her. 'The carriages'll be here in a minute!'
He let Harry keep a watch for the carriages, however, and spent the next few minutes craning his neck over the crowd to try and see what Krum and Hermione might be up to. They returned quite soon. Ron stared at Hermione, but her face was impassive.
- Chapter 37