It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you.

Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing.

Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality.