[HPforGrownups] Another Quote to be Nitpicked

Eileen lucky_kari at yahoo.ca
Tue Feb 25 22:43:51 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 52836

 --- Trond Michelsen <trondmm-hp4gu at crusaders.no>
wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:31:04PM -0500,
Eileen
> wrote:
> > I've read a million times over on the SQ and FAP
> > boards (I don't remember if I've seen it on HPFGU)
> > that JKR purportedly said that none of the Yule
> Ball
> > partners were "right." I suspect this is another
> > fabrication, but can anyone find this or something
> > approximating it? 
> 
> Finally a quote I knew I could find :-)
> 
> In a Barnes & Noble online chat, September 1999,
> long before the release
> of GoF.
> 
>
http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/archive/Sept99_BarnesNoble.htm
> 
> --8<--
> Dear Ms. Rowling, I'd like to ask if there would be
> a lot of romances
> between the characters in the upcoming books? 
> 
> Good question. I'm having so much fun writing Book 4
> because for the
> first time Harry, Ron, and Hermoine are starting to
> recognize boys and
> girls as boys and girls. Everyone is in love with
> the wrong people. Let
> no one say my books lack realism. 

Ah, but that quote says nothing about the Yule Ball
partners. In fact, it seems limited to Harry, Ron, and
Hermione. I still challenge someone to find this
purported quote that the Yule Ball partners are wrong,
often used to discredit Ginny/Neville or
Hagrid/Maxime.

Eileen

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