SHIP: JKR Interview (what she said and what she didn't say)

[Penny Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 52022

Hi --

Greicy wrote:
> I should hope she is tricky us into thinking something may happen 
> between Ron and Hermione and then do the old switcheroo on us and 
> have Hermione and Harry together! :D

Angua responded: <<<<Yes.  Quite a few people are hoping that.  I do not believe the hope is well founded.  I'm pretty well convinced that JKR intends, as she said in one interview, for Harry and Hermione to be very platonic friends.>>>>>>>>>

Now, now.  :::wags finger at Angua::::  Let's be clear about what JKR said (Oct 1999): 

Q: Do Harry and Hermione have a date? 
A: No. They are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge nudge, wink wink. 

She did not say that she *intends* for Harry and Hermione to be very platonic friends.  She said they *are* very platonic friends.  She also said this in response to a very specific question: "do they have a date?"  As in: Do they have a date *in GoF?*  I've never understood how it is that this implied "in GoF" can be so in contention.  The interview was given pre-GoF.  The question is *clearly* directed at what happens in GoF (and is, after all, only asking whether Harry and Hermione have a *date* ...... not whether they will have a romantic relationship, marriage, sordid affair or anything else).  :::shakes head:::

I know the R/H'ers *wish* she'd said that Harry and Hermione are and will forever more until their dying days be, and *only* be, *very* platonic friends.  But, alas.  No. They *are* platonic friends in GoF.  Yep.  True enough.  Can't argue with that one.  They are.  Doesn't mean they *always* will be.       

Penny

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