OOP: The Shipping News (spoilers, of course)

[medeacallous]

No: HPFGUIDX 62767

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "isabella_080" 
<isabella_080 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "medeacallous" 
> <medeacallous at y...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Actually, since seeing JKR interviewed by Katie Couric (is that 
how 
> > you spell it?) I sincerely doubt that RW and HG is gonna 
happen.  
> > Rowling's such a Scrooge with pre-publication details that when 
she 
> > answered KC's question about a future for HP/HG by saying 
something 
> > like 'HP/HG?  Really?  You see those two together??  RW/HG 
maybe, 
> > that seems much more likely...' I immediately thought 'Oh, RW/HG 
is 
> > dead as dead'.
> > 
> > MC
> 
> Me:  Oh, man.  I missed the interview.  That's a really good 
point.  
> But then again...maybe she knows we will think she's just trying 
to 
> confuse us and thus we won't believe it (R/H) will happen, just so 
> that it *will* happen, and we will still be surprised...oh why do 
we 
> even try to interpret what she says?  She is the master 
(mistress?) 
> of surprise.  It's all getting too confusing.  It's reached the 
point 
> where R/H and H/H are *both* the "obvious" coupling - depending on 
> who you talk to. (The media is quick to jump on H/H, but I guess 
it's 
> the whole Hero/Female Friend dynamic...the fandom seems evenly 
> split)  So if JKR doesn't do the obvious...well, does that mean 
> Hermione will wind up with neither? 
> 
> isabella


Well, it'll bring fresh hope to all the SS/HG shippers... although 
she'll no longer be able to fall for/marry Sirius first, which seems 
to happen frequently in that little corner of the fandom, lol.

MC