R/Hr may have "anvil sized" hints (yeah right), but we sure do have a heck of a lot of "subtle" hints!

-Love the Hermione saying "Voldemort" moment.
-Any moment of when they're complimenting each other.
-When they're both proud of what they've done.
-Whenever they flirt.
-Jaw drop in GOF.

After they scape from the centaurs and Grawp... they're arguing and when they hear someone (Ron, actually) and by instict get back by back... Not very obvious, more subtle than anything, but I love it

Love the "Dogging your footsteps" line...they're so in tune with each other Plus, when he notices she's not in her chair....

And when something is "hermione-ish" or "un-Hermione-ish" - WOOT!

LOL I LOVE it when Harry uses that made up word It is so cute

Another good find! I love those! And the part in HBP where he's surprised that Hermione finds his words just as worth memorization as a book

Harry gets excited to find out Hermione thinks of him as worthy and Hermione gets excited to find out Harry thinks the same (i.e. convo w/ Sluggy). Coincidence...I think NOT!

Precisely! I am also a rather large fan of the jaw drop in GoF...(I LOVED how they did that scene in the movie!)

The hug in PS/SS when they're 'through the trapdoor", but then when Hermione looks as though she is ready again to fling her arms around Harry, at the end, she doesn't. Now, is this because Harry is sore and tired, or because there are other people aroung...

Or when Harry's about to face Quirrel/Voldemort in PS/SS and Hermione's just said her "you're a great wizard" speech... you can see (at least in the movie) her wanting to kiss (okay, they're only 11!) him.

I would absolutely DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can just see it now... Hermione giving him a speech like that (or maybe Harry will be saying it this time), and before he actually FIGHTS Voldemort... *SIGH*.

Another moment:

The hug in PS/SS when they're "through the trapdoor," but then when Hermione looks as though she is ready again to fling her arms around Harry, at the end, she doesn't. Now, is this because Harry is sore and tired, or because there are other people around...

Man, I Hope that comes back around in DH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would absolutely DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can just see it now... Hermione giving him a speech like that (or maybe Harry will be saying it this time), and before he actually FIGHTS Voldemort... *SIGH*.

Maybe someone could post the exact quotes

"What kept you?" he asked, as Harry sank into the armchair next to Hermione's.

Harry moved over to sit next to Hermione, who awoke with a jerk as he put down his bag.

...said Hermione consolingly, sitting down next to Harry and helping herself to shephard's pie.

...she said dully, sinking into a chair beside Harry.

"That's true," said Harry, sinking into an armchair beside Hermione's.

Ask and ye shall receive...

That is our ship at its finest...it's subtle, deep, and just shows how Harry and Hermione affect each other...he's happy, she's happy, he's sad, and she's down...I mean, the synchronism of their relationship is truly fascinating...

(Bloomsbury/Raincoast edition, p. 67)

Harry kept to his room, with his new owl for company. He had decided to call her Hedwig, a name he had found in A History of Magic. His school books were very interesting. He lay on his bed reading late into the night, Hedwig swooping in and out of the open window as she pleased.

(p.90)

"Granger, Hermione!"

Hermione almost ran to the stool and pulled the hat eagerly on her head.

"GRYFFINDOR!" shouted the hat. Ron groaned.

A horrible thought struck Harry, as horrible thoughts always do when you're very nervous. What if he wasn't chosen at all? What if he just sat there with the hat over his eyes for ages, until Professor McGonagall jerked it off his head and said there had obviously been a mistake and he'd better get back on the train?

Harry would probably admit that this was a very Hermione-ish thing to do. But has he ever admitted it to anyone, even Hermione? I rather doubt it, and I hope he does tell her about it in Book Seven. Perhaps he sensed that he would meet her or someone like her at Hogwarts?

Now why did Harry have to get such a thought right after Hermione's Sorting -- especially since Ron had just groaned in dismay at the realization that she would indeed be in "whatever House I'm in"? Isn't this a rather large hint, early on, about which of them Hermione was destined for?

p. 106
“Are you really?” said Hermione. “I know all about you, of course-I got a few extra books for background reading, and you’re in Modern Magical History and The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts and Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century.”

Hermione knows more about Harry than Harry himself. But she's not like a fangirl because right from the start Hermione treats him as "Just Harry" (which is something Ginny has never been able to do). As much as she knows about him, she is the only person not astonished by the fact he's famous.

'It was a c-cat hair!' she howled. 'M-Millicent Bulstrode m-must have a cat! And the p-potion isn't supposed to be used for animal transformations!'

'Uh oh,' said Ron.

'You'll be teased something dreadful,' said Myrtle happily.

'It's OK, Hermione,' said Harry quickly. 'We'll take you up to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey never asks too many questions ...'

'Could've been anything,' said Ron. 'Maybe he got thirty O.W.Ls or saved a teacher from the giant squid. Maybe he murdered Myrtle, that would've done everyone a favour ...'

But Harry could tell from the arrested look on Hermione's face that she was thinking what he was thinking.

'What?' said Ron, looking from one to the other.

'Harry had been to several Hogwarts feasts, but never one quite like this. Everybody was in their pyjamas, and the celebrations lasted all night. Harry didn't know whether the best bit was Hermione running towards him, screaming, 'You solved it! You solved it!'...

The Very Secret Diary (p. 173-4)

I think this is the first shippy moment:

(Accio Harry!)

Didn't Harry also read his books because he thought that being from a Muggle home would put him at a disadvantage? That he might be quite a bit behind? I doubt it was for anyone besides himself.

(Accio Harry!)

Again, sorry for being a brat, but Hermione was the first Sorted into Gryffindor -- the House that sounded good to him and the House that Ron had talked about. Plus, Hermione had mentioned that she wanted to be placed into Gryffindor, so when she was, he was probably just worried he wouldn't be. Also, Harry's had been such an outcast, he was probably afraid of not getting what he wanted. I don't see this as a shippy moment.

GoF p. 79
However he and Hermione worked out where most of the poles and pegs should go…All of them stood back to admire their handiwork.

This is when everyone is setting up camp for the QWC in GoF. It's nice that H/Hr both have a common Muggle up-bringing. And once again something neither Ron nor Ginny can relate to.
*Maybe the something from the Muggle world will be a clue to finding Voldie's horcruxes; after all Voldie also had a Muggle childhood. It'd be a perfect moment to show how H/Hr work together.

Hermione was not the first Sorted into Gryffindor -- Lavender Brown was. We're clearly told that Harry was worried considerably less about not being Sorted into Gryffindor than about not being chosen at all -- and from there, being "Sorted" back into "Dursley House"! Also, this scene occurs after the moment you and Mystiquefire agree was "the first shippy moment." Couldn't it, then, have been the second?

It would appear, wouldn't it, that there are multiple layers to this book thing? Since I first read Book Six, I've come to consider that the bond between Harry and Hermione started forming before they were even friends. So couldn't it just as well have started, as I previously tried to suggest, before they ever even met? Indeed, this might have been the first example of how they've complemented each other: Harry, before he gets on the Express, seeking knowledge of the Wizarding World through books, and Hermione, at her first meeting with Harry on the Express, showing that she's gained knowledge of him through them.

Clever observation since the earilest of JKR's beginnings for SS/PS started out with the Potters living on a remote island with the Grangers living on mainland, Mister Granger seeing something like an explosion out on the island, driving a boat out there and checking it out. (JKrowling.com, extra stuff --the brush--, edits)

Why else would the Grangers be so significant in the beginning if the two weren't destined even before they met? Heh.

I know it's not exactly in the book, but it almost was!

Percy Weasley was sitting in a chair behind Lee, but for once he didn't seem keen to make his views heard. He was looking pale and stunned.

"Percy's in shock," George told Harry quietly. "That Ravenclaw girl--Penelope Clearwater--she's a prefect. I don't think he thought the monster would dare attack a prefect."

But Harry was only half-listening. He didn't seem to be able to get rid of the picture of Hermione, lying on the hospital bed as though carved out of stone.

I am reading through all the books again and came across a lovely subtlety in CoS last night. Hermione has just been petrified along with Penelope Clearwater:

Oh I love this one!!!! I seem to have forgotten this particular scene...but it was really subtle. If it wasn't juxtaposed to Percy's reaction to Penelope's condition, I would think it was expected Harry to feel that way, Hermione's his friend. But, man....that was really subtle (and sneaky of JKR). Hail all the subtleties...makes second-reading really worth our while than the anvil-hints she's suppossed to drop on our heads...hard-headed, much?

Bring H/Hr on!!!!!

I must say I love reading this topic lol one but anyway I have moment that could be more of Dan/Emma moment but oh well

in Poa movie

Dan kind of puts his arm around her waist and tries to get her wand but if you see the look on Emma's face it kind goes from horror to relaxation and I just kind of found it cute lol

Ha, I love how in this thread, the more obvious "subtle" moments (oxymoronish, but eh) were mentioned and now we're sort of whittling down to the toughest--but best--catches.

". . .Or d'you [Hermione] think she [Pince] overheard you being rude about Filch? I always thought there might be something going on between them. . ."
"Oh, ha ha. . ."
Enjoying the fact that they could speak normally again, they made their way along the deserted, lamp-lit corridors back to the common room, arguing whether or not Filch and Madam Pince were secretly in love with each other.

With the quidditch you have to love how Harry is the only one to make Hermione worry so much. Especially when she practically digs her nails into her skin freaking out. Has she ever done that for Ron? If I didn't know any better I'd she forgets he's there play too.

I know! I always love the Quidditch scenes because of the H/Hr moments...it killed me in HBP when Harry cracked his skull and Hermione didn't come to see him...

Next moment, Professor Dumbledore was there, sweeping towards the portrait; the Gryffindors squeezed together to let him through, and Harry, Ron and Hermione moved closer to see what the trouble was.

'Oh, my -' Hermione exclaimed and grabbed Harry's arm.

'Yes, but - but -' Hermione seemed to be struggling to find another problem. 'Look, Harry still shouldn't be coming into Hogsmeade, he hasn't got a signed form! If anyone finds out, he'll be in so much trouble! And it's not nightfall yet - what if Sirius Black turns up today? Now?'

'He'd have a job spotting Harry in this,' said Ron, nodding through the mullioned windows at the thick, swirling snow.

'Come on, Hermione, it's Christmas, Harry deserves a break.'

Hermione bit her lip, looking extremely worried.

'Are you going to report me?' Harry asked her, grinning.

'Oh - of course not - but honestly, Harry -'

Only one person wasn't joining in the festivities. Hermione, incredibly, was sitting in a corner, attempting to read an enormous book entitled Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles. Harry broke away from the table where Fred and George had started juggling Butterbeer bottles, and went over to her.

'Did you even come to the match?' he asked her.

'Of course I did,' said Hermione, in a strangely high-pitched voice, not looking up. 'And I'm very glad we won, and I think you did really well, but I need to read this by Monday.'

'Come on, Hermione, come and have some food,' Harry said, looking over at Ron and wondering whether he was in a good enough mood to bury the hatchet.

'I can't, Harry, I've still got four hundred and twenty-two pages to read!' said Hermione, now sounding slightly hysterical. 'Anyway ...' she glanced at Ron, too, 'he doesn't want me to join in.'

There was no arguing with this, as Ron chose that moment to say loudly, 'If Scabbers hadn't just been eaten, he could have had some of these Fudge Flies, he used to really like them -'

Hermione burst into tears. Before Harry could say or do anything, she had tucked the enormous book under her arm, and, still sobbing, run towards the staircase to the girls' dormitaries and out of sight.

'Can't you give her a break?' Harry asked Ron quietly.

'No,' said Ron flatly.

Here are some moments from PoA: