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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan XG" <SusanXG at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> MC said:
> 
> "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'."
> 
> 
> Well, I watched and taped that interview. There is a transcript 
posted on 
> the MSN website, but it's not complete. I just ran upstairs and 
cued up my 
> tape and made a small transcript about the part you're referring 
to:
> 
> *******Dateline Interview 6/20/03*********
> 
> Katie Couric: Any snogging with Hermione?
> 
> J.K. Rowling: (look of repulsion)- Hermione & Harry? You really 
think so?
> 
> Katie Couric: (laughing) No, I'm kidding.
> 
> J.K. Rowling: Ron & Hermione...I would say have the more tension 
there.
> 
> 

<snip>
 
> But back to the J.K. Rowling interview, she doesn't normally give 
out many 
> details. And she never lies. She said Harry was very angry in this 
book, he 
> was very angry. (VERY! ;o) ). She said Harry would go through 
various 
> teenage rights of passage...and he did. Besides, she's said in 
previous 
> interviews about the "something" that's developing between R/Hr. 
Only that 
> Ron was "too clueless" to realize it yet. I honestly think, he's 
finally 
> getting a clue. (slowly...but surely)
> 

<snip>

> Susan :o)
> 


OK, OK <g> ... first, I'm not trying to argue with anyone about 
ships.  I'm not a shipper of ANY kind, I really don't care who ends 
up with whom (my argument being that they're teenagers, the 
likelihood that any school romance ending in lifelong happiness is 
very small, IMO.  And anyone who comes back and says 'but the 
Potters were school romances, the Longbottoms were school romances, 
etc etc etc ... well, they're DEAD.  Would they have lasted if they 
had lived?  Statistics say NO.)

But, back to this.  I only have one comment, and that is that I 
don't know about other JKR interviews about H/R, but in this one, 
she doesn't actually say anything IMO that indicates a firm plot 
development.  All she says is that she thinks there's more tension 
between H/R than H/H, which IMO means squat.  I think it's a dodge, 
personally.  She's using questions and vague comments to guide 
listeners in a particular direction, when in actual fact she's 
saying nothing.

I won't disagree that she never lies (don't know enough to 
agree/disagree), but in this particular clip, IMO she's hiding 
behind words.  'Tension' could be simply a description of the books 
up to now, where there has undoubtedly been more tension between H/R 
than H/H.  But does that mean romance?  Maybe, but that's NOT what 
JKR is saying.  She also never discounts H/H.  She deflects it by 
throwing it back at Katie and getting her to take back her words.  
(Very adept, BTW.   I wonder if JKR practices at home in front of 
the mirror??)

So, I'm not discounting H/R, but I don't see from this interview 
that JKR is hinting at it.  And I stand by my opinion that the way 
she deflects the H/H question, then fudges on the H/R comment, is 
actually a red herring meant to make the listeners believe something 
that isn't true.

MC