Based?

[Amy Z]

Derannimer wrote (it got through!):

> as a confirmed H/Her, I'm going to try to step carefully 
> here

I think this is one question that ought to be free of shipping bias, 
or at least free of a bias towards R/H or H/H.  (Where it leaves H/D 
is anyone's guess.)  After all, Jo and Sean didn't turn into a 
romantic couple (unless, as GulPlum suggests, they're being cagey on 
that point), so so much for R/H based on real life.  Neither is it 
very savory to imagine Jo putting her alter ego together with her 
imaginary son, which is the closest parallel she's drawn between 
Harry and a real-life person, so so much for H/H based on real life.  
It's a wash.

> Since Hermione is so very close to JKR--in one interview, JKR says 
> that, although many characters end up far from their "bases," that 
> hasn't happened with Hermione--I think that, to *some* extent, we 
may 
> be able to predict some things about Hermione's character, tastes, 
> and *identity* based on what we know of JKR. 

But we can't predict how she'd get on with Ron, can we?  Since he may 
be one of the characters who's ended up far from his basis.  

Amy