BBC SHIP mentions/Weasley Parenting

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No: HPFGUIDX 36113

"Laura Huntley" 
 found this at the bottom of an article on BBC News.
> 
> "Harry has already been interested in a "quidditch" team-mate in 
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, the fourth book in the series - 
but will now develop more of an interest in Hermione, one of his best 
friends. "
> 

If you want to be even more confused about the prospects of future 
shipping, check out this article

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_1726000/1726935.stm

"There will be more "boy-girl stuff" in the next books as the 
characters are now 15. In book four, Harry fancied a member of the 
Quidditch team, but in the next book JKR promises more romance - 
though probably not between him and Hermione!"

Interesting how this author got the completely opposite end of the 
stick!  I am so curious about where the rumors started....

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Weasley parenting---

First, I must say that I am not a parent; and that I am an only 
child, only grandchild, and, on my mom's side, an only great-
grandchild as well.  Until this week, I read the Weasley family 
interactions as just JKR trying to portray a big, busy family.  I 
thought that This Was How Big Families Worked.  I read Molly as a 
loving woman doing the best she could with all those boys....

Now, I'm not sure.  Maybe JKR is setting us up for yet another 
jealousy battle between Harry & Ron... I hope not... but envy has led 
to such big problems for other characters (thinking of Pettigrew & 
especially here) that I doubt we've heard the last of Ron's issues.  
I personally was expecting some FITD-type jealousy from Ron in OOTP, 
but maybe family issues will come into play as well....  (What do you 
bet Fred & George are *awfully* nice to Harry in the next book, maybe 
more so than they are to Ron?)

Now that I think about it, seems like JKR has neatly written Ron & 
Harry into a tight spot... Harry needs (and deserves) all the love & 
help he can get... Ron is a bit neglected (whether that's Molly's--or 
Arthur's!-fault, or just large family dynamics, is up for 
interpretation...)  

Throw in  some jealousy, hormones, a tendency to fly off the handle, 
and well, and you're just asking for trouble....

Caroline
(who really doesn't dislike Ron, but worries that he is a bit of 
loose cannon)