SHIP: Re: Harry, Hermione & Ron

[jksunflower2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 74843

> >Also, while JKR may not be giving away her hand in that 
paragraph, 
> >what is she doing with interview comments suggesting that the 
> >tension is between Ron and Hermione, in response to a question 
about 
> >Hermione and Harry getting involved?
> 
> GEO: Tension does not equal future relationship. Imo the R/H 
shippers 
> are playing right into her hands by believing that the Katie 
Couric 
> interview was a confirmation on her part. If anything that was a 
> dodge by Rowling.


Ms. Rowling strikes me as a fair player.  She's laid her clues, it's 
up to us.  In interviews she either tells you that she's not going 
to answer the question, or she avoids answering it.  I watched that 
interview again today (have it on tape) and while she didn't 
directly answer the question, the look on that woman's face when she 
questioned Katie Couric's choice of Harry and Hermione as, uh, 
snoggers put a rather nice sized hole in the H/H ship for me.  I'm 
an H/G shipper, but would have been ok with H/H in the end.  Heck, I 
just want the boy to be happy.


>> GEO: The H/G ship is pretty much sunk since Ginny has grown out 
of 
> her crush. If it even begins then it begins incredibly flawed 
since 
> the two are forced together by Ron who wants them to date at the 
end 
> of Ootp. If anything else Ginny still sees Harry as the champion 
who 
> banished Voldemort as a baby and when she got a glimpse of the 
very 
> real and angry Harry she didn't like it all.

See, I saw this completely different.  Ginny is over her hero-
worship crush.  She sees Harry with all his flaws.  The stage is set 
for true love to enter the picture.  I actually have more hope for 
an H/G romance after reading OotP.  They wouldn't have stood a 
chance if Ginny fell in love with the Boy Who Lived.  

Of course, we can speculate until the cows come home.  Ain't over 
till the fat lady sings (oops--wrong thread.) JKR has set a 
precedence for school romances turning into marriage down the line 
(James/Lily, Arthur/Molly), and I believe she is doing that now.  As 
to who that may be, we won't know for sure until the end of book 7. 
Until then, whatever their condition, all ships are sailing.

Toad