No-ship Harry?

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No: HPFGUIDX 20749

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner" <bohners at p...> 
wrote:
>
> Voldemort.  With all of that weighing on his mind, how much time is he going
> to spend thinking about dating and romance?
> 
> And even if Harry did have the time and energy to include a girlfriend in
> his life, do you think he would really want to put her through all the struggles and dangers that he is about to experience?  

	That argument is used often in fiction as a rationale for keeping 
the hero unattached and the author's life simple, but I'm not at all 
sure JKR is going there. She wants to show what it's really like to 
resist evil. So I would think that Harry would want all the friends he 
can get and all the  pleasures life allows, *especially* if he's 
thinking it could all be taken away from him. And nobody can spend *
all* their time worrying about what is to come.
	Our putative love interest will surely argue that Voldemort is 
just as likely to target the innocent and uninvolved: the unicorn, Mrs. 
Norris, Penelope, Justin, Cedric etc. And Harry will need, most 
definitely, to be able to share what he's going through.  
	So far, both Harry and Ron seem to have the attitude that puberty 
will go away if they quit thinking about it, but I can't see JKR 
introducing the subject of Harry's feelings about girls at all if 
they're not going to be developed any further.

Pippin