The JKR interview on the DVD: SHIP (FITD)

[heidit at netbox.com]

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In a message dated 4/15/2003 5:12:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
ms_petra_pan at yahoo.com writes:
Petra Pan wrote:
> 
> To solidify ANY response at this time would 
> be to PREMATURELY satisfy our curiosity.
> 
> JKR would want her audience to wonder 
> *regardless* of any shipping concerns.
> 
> Penny:
> >No ..... see above.  I don't blame
> >her in the least for holding her cards
> >to her vest.  In fact, I think she
> >has done just that, which is why I
> >don't believe the "they're just
> >platonic" quote is as revealing as the
> >R/H shippers argue it is.
> 
> Neither do I but for reasons that compel ME 
> to find anti-R/H arguments just as unconvincing.

I agree with Petra throughout this, and with Penny in the last. I think that 
part of the dynamic here might be that there are certain people on certain 
ships (including but not limited to R/Hr) who think that their ship is more 
than suggested in canon - they think it *is* canon. 

For those who simply feel that canon, and JKR's interviews, support the idea 
of an R/Hr ship later in the stories, this interview shouldn't really have 
much of an effect, imho. 

But for those who believe that in early 2000, JKR made it clear to everyone 
that there would never be any H/Hr romance, this interview should be a bit of 
an issue/bone of consternation (unless you read it as "Ron is interested in 
Hermione and Hermione is interested in Ron and Harry is also interested in 
Ron...").

Heidi


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