Harry, Hermione & Ron [SHIP + CRAB]

[David]

No: HPFGUIDX 74950

greatelderone quoted:

> > Actually she said.
> > 
> > Couric: "Any snogging with Hermione?" "snip" ***
> > 
> > Rowling: "RON and Hermione. There is more tension there, I would 
> say."
> > 
> > So basically Rowling neither denied or confirmed the R/H or H/H 
> > ships. So we are basically back to square one on the issue of 
> > confirmation of the ships.
> 
Talisman:

> Huh? You don't see that as JKR saying the chemisty (& future 
> snogging)is between Ron and Hermione?  

If this interview were to be taken in isolation, the natural 
interpretation would be that JKR is saying that one would expect any 
snogging to be between Ron and Hermione.

However, the immediate context is just before the release of OOP, 
and the questioning is building on GOF.  The wider context is that 
JKR uses interviews to tantalise and tease, and has generally 
speaking deflected any question about anything she regards as 
important to the plot or final denouement.  Harry's potential 
romantic relationships come, IMO, under this heading.

So what I *think* is going on is that she is surprised that an H/H 
question has been asked when the visible tension in GOF was R/H 
(strictly speaking R->H).  She *knows*, of course, that in OOP 
Hermione isn't going to snog either of them - but she wants to keep 
the tease going as long as possible.  And she has succesfully 
deflected attention away from the identity of Harry's snogging 
partner in OOP, without either confirming or denying Hermione as a 
possibility.

For these reasons I consider that the Couric interview gives neither 
knowledge nor truth concerning Harry or Hermione's relationships as 
intended by JKR.

David