OOP. Impressions. Spoilers.SHIPs

[Serena Moonsilver]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Nia" <penumbra10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, RSFJenny19 at a... wrote:
> > In a message dated 6/21/2003 8:20:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> > terryljames at h... writes:
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> > I watched the Dateline interview JKR did with Katie Couric and 
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> > ok, Katie asked JKR if Harry and Hermione would be snogging
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> > book and JKR said something to the effect of "Harry and Hermione? 
> No, Ron and 
> > Hermione, maybe."  I'm paraphrasing because I don't have a 
> transcript, but her 
> > tone was one of surprise over the H|H question, and answered as 
if 
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> > correcting Katie on which SHIP would eventually sail.
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> Me:
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> I cannot see JKR freely discussing such major plot points as 
> eventual relationships in such an offhanded manner.  I think JKR 
was 
> alluding to the scene in OoP where we see Hermione kissing Ron on 
> the cheek, which was very sweet, but hardly conclusive.  
> Loved the book, BTW!
> --Nia

I agree--didn't at one point JKR say we would never see Lockhart 
again either?  Or was that another one of those things she never said 
but everyone thinks she did?

Serena