Does OotP destroy the H/G shipp

[cressida_tt]

No: HPFGUIDX 68431

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "blu_hermione" 
<blu_hermione at y...> wrote:
> Rereading OotP I found myself going back over Sirius and Harry's 
> conversation about the marriages between pureblood familys. Sirius 
> was practically related to almost every pureblood family in england 
> and Harry being the son of a pureblood there could be a close blood 
> relationship between him and the Weasley family. If they were 
second 
> cousins or such the prospect of Harry having a romantic 
relationship 
> with Ginny. Incest relationships do not seem like something that 
JKR 
> would be in favor of therefore it might hurt the ship. 

Cressida replies: In one of Sirius's conversations with Harry 
regarding the family tree, he points out that both Molly and Arthur 
are very distantly related to him and therefore I assume to each 
other. I cannot recall the exact detail but it was cousins lots of 
times removed. I don't think that this counts as incest. If there 
were a close family relationship between Sirius and James then I 
think that Sirius would have mentioned it. I think also seeing as he 
was showing people on the family tree to Harry it is likely that he 
might have actually pointed James out. Harry is only a half blood 
anyway and we assume that Lily isn't related to any of them at all.


Also Ginny's 
> lack of romantic feelings toward Harry in this book, to the chargin 
> of Ron, have put a damper on that ship. I think it might have sunk. 
> Does anyone else have any other ideas

Cressida replies: I don't know that we can actually conclude that 
Ginny has no romantic feeling for Harry. We are continually told that 
Ginny is a glib liar for instance and JKR never does anything for 
nothing. There are also occasions when there are undercurrents 
between them. JKR is very good at red herrings so I think we have to 
look at what is less obvious on the romantic front. For the moment I 
think that they are very young and so will be swopping and changing 
for a while yet. None of the ships have really wither set sail or 
sunk yet because there are another two books to go yet.