[HPforGrownups] The JKR interview on the DVD: SHIP AND Shipping Mentality

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 55363

Eileen, nowhere in my post did I say, imply or wish to
suggest that it was improper to think that R/Hr would
develop in the three forthcoming books. 

But, you wrote:

> So, what JKR said here is that she endorses
> Columbus's
> view of the shipping. 

Actually, what she said is that Columbus, who is,
according to JKR, in the dark as to many, if not all,
future plot points, suggested in the CoS film
something that is not suggested in CoS, the book, but
which is suggested in GoF - feelings between "the
three of them." I can't see how this can be read in
any other way. 

> But then, not too much. You see, I don't primarily
> ship R/Hr because I like it, though I do moderately.
> I
> ship it because that's what I see in canon. 

Do you mean to say that you believe that a romance
between Ron and Hermione exists within the pages of
GoF? In other words, do you think that in the
timeframe of GoF, but off the page, they are snogging,
holding hands, etc.?

Because that's what I was refering to in my post. 

> But, here's the problem, there is a feeling present
> in
> many H/Hr posts including your own that R/Hers are
> arrogant in refusing to consider any possibility
> than
> their own ship. 

If you're getting that feeling, it was not intended by
me as either text of subtext. I don't think that
people who believe that there is "offpage" snogging
between Ron and Hermione in the GoF timeframe are
arrogant. I simply think that arguing that it is canon
they *actually are* snogging off the page is, well,
unsupported by canon. It's wishful thinking. 

> And, if we take it as assumed in canon
> speculation, that's because we've made an honest
> decision to assume it. I really don'tt see what is
> so
> wrong with that.
There's nothing wrong with that, nothing at all. But
again, that's not what I was pointing out, and in my
phrasing ("...it is canon...") I was clearly unclear. 

What I should have said is, "there are certain people
on certain ships who don't simply think that their
ship will be bourne out by the next three books when
romance blossoms - they think that romance already
exists and is flourishing."

Also, Eileen wrote: 
> As someone who believes that JKR made it very clear
> to
> everyone in early 2000 that there would never be any
> H/Hr romance, the interview brought a smile to my
> face, since it destroyed an H/Hr line of speculation
> from late 2002. (Yes, I'm an R/Hr reprobate.)
Which line of speculation? As someone who ships
neither R/Hr not H/Hr, I'm admittedly clueless as to
what you're refering to here.

heidi

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