Just sharing - thoughts on the transcript

[davewitley]

> > > Chibimono: Do you have any future plans in particular for Draco
> > > Malfoy?
> > > 
> > > JK Rowling replies -> I've got plans for all my characters.
> > > Actually, this is a really good place to answer a question about
> > > Draco and Hermione, which a certain Ms. Radcliffe is desperate 
to
> > > have answered. Will they end up together in book six/seven? NO! 
> The
> > > trouble is, of course, that girls fancy Tom Felton, but Draco 
is 
> NOT
> > > Tom Felton!

Heidi, springing eternal:

> > > (notice she didn't say anything about GETTING together, just 
> ENDING 
> > > UP together, and she said in BOOK SIX/SEVEN, which clearly does 
> not
> > > incorporate the world AFTER BOOK SEVEN.
> > > 
> > > RIGHT?)
 
Naama replied:  
> > Wrong! Book seven will include an epilogue of the protagonists' 
> > future lives. 

Heidi:
> 
> Are you ever so very sure of that, still, now that she also said, 
in 
> response to "Are you going to write books about Harry after 
> school?" "Probably not, but I'll never say never because every time 
> I do I immediately break the vow!"

I feel you are missing the context here.  JKR wasn't asked about D/H 
and she went out of her way to rule it out, and in that context I 
feel 'ending up' is more forceful than 'getting'.  In effect, she was 
swamped with 16,000 questions, she answered 150, and she *still* made 
room to help her friend Ms Radcliffe (anyone know the reference here -
 anything to do with Dan?) get over her sad delusion.

The second quote shows she does indeed have a post-Hogwarts vision of 
some sort, which gives a meaning to the notion of 'ending up' which 
would otherwise be absent.

However, Heidi, I feel bound to point out that if you want to see 
Books 8, 9, 10... you should keep writing H/D: it might be the very 
irritant that will cause JKR to write new books as rebuttals!

David, poking his tongue at the fandom since 2001