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

[Katy Cartee]

No: HPFGUIDX 55387

Heidi wrote:

> 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.

He's definitely not as "in the dark" as we are. He's working DIRECTLY with the author! I'm sure there are things (even if they're minor things) that he knows that we do not. Chris doesn't suggest anything between Harry and Hermione in CoS that i saw. But he did suggest a R/Her dynamic by the tension between them at the end in the hug/hand-shake scene. And JKR suggested a R/Her dynamic in the quarrels they had over the dance issue. I'm not sure how anyone could see/read those scenes and not see the dynamic there...it just seems that obvious to me. But perhaps some of you are calling this a "red herring" as well and thinking that JKR is gonna pull a fast one on us. It's certainly possible. Can some H/Her shippers give me some examples of canon that lead you to believe in the H/Her ship?

> 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.?

I can't speak for Eileen, but for me, goodness no! The quarrels between them and Harry's reaction to them ARE in canon, and that is enough to support the future possibility of a R/Her ship. Can you give me another reason that Ron was so incredibly jealous of Hermione dancing with Krum that he ignored his own date completely?

> 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.

I'm sure she was referring to JKR saying that H/Her are "platonic" friends.

~Katy~

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