[HPforGrownups] Hermione's Birthday; SHIP (FITD)

[elfundeb]

No: HPFGUIDX 55421

Penny said, while humming a certain nursery rhyme:

In commenting on the Trio's interactions, Rowling noted that
> Columbus had foreshadowed in this 2nd film something she didn't touch on
> really until GoF and that is: "certain feelings between the *three* (3) of
> them."
> 
> Ahem.
> 
> Between the *3* of them.
> 

I think JKR is saying merely that she allowed Columbus to foreshadow in the CoS movie what she did not foreshadow in the books until GoF, which means she intended it to be ambiguous.  I think Hermione's feelings are ambiguously presented in GoF, and (though I've only seen the movie once) they're ambiguously presented there as well.  

**Caution:  picky grammatical point about to be made**
"Between" is a concept that relates to two, not three.  The correct word to use where a threesome is involved is "among".  Since Harry is unambiguously uninterested in GoF, using between could be read to suggest that JKR isn't talking about him because there's nothing *between* him and anyone.  That's not to say FITD won't happen; I just don't think JKR has told us anything we didn't already know.

On the other hand, of course, since it was an interview, JKR doesn't have an editor at her elbow correcting such mistakes.  But that leads to my last point.

I don't think things JKR says in interviews can be parsed like the things she says in books.  They're off-the-cuff remarks, and people misspeak all the time.  As I read these remarks, the point is that something which we're already aware of from a later book was put into an earlier movie.  Therefore, I don't think we can read into the remarks anything that we don't already know from reading GoF. (But then, I've always been amazed by the bandwith that is used analyzing the meaning of JKR's hyperbolic remark that "Everyone is in love with the wrong people.")  Bottom line, I think the interview isn't *canon*, and doesn't reliably tell us anything about canon.

Yeah, I think JKR's pretty smart and isn't about to give anything away that might be important.

Debbie
who always thought Hermione's age wasn't very important


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