SHIP: Ron and Hermione do TOO banter!

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50405

Penny said:

  >>The shipping ambiguities will always be 
 somewhat ambiguous.  It's not as though the characters can be 
shown  to be in love since PS/SS .... they will change as they 
mature.  I  also don't buy the notion that the ships have been 
"destined" since  PS/SS (Ginny as the first girl Harry sees and 
Hermione's interaction with Ron over the smudged nose).  <<

Sorry, I'm not following this. Do you mean that you don't think JKR 
had worked out the resolution of the "ships" plot thread when 
she wrote PS/SS? 

Or do you mean, she had it worked out, but didn't intend anything 
in the first book to  indicate  future romantic possibilities,  in 
which case, with this reader, she failed miserably.

I don't really see how, if the story does end R/H, anyone 
who's cognizant of the ending will be able to read PS/SS and not 
see authorial indications of potential attraction. Note that it's 
attraction I'm talking about, not liking or love.

Pippin