SHIP: movie contamination

[kyliemckenzie1225]

No: HPFGUIDX 84254

 [Brian]had written

  > I was polling a couple of my students about their SHIPping
  > preferences.  The thought occurred to me that my R/H SHIP
  > inclination, and SHIPping in general is a product of movie
  > contamination.  Romantic prospects don't seem as salient in the
  > books.  Steve Kloves is an obvious R/H-er and I think his
  > presentation of those characters has changed the way I read them 
in
  > Rowling's books.  Character interaction in books one and
  > two seems
  > more matter-of-fact than the movie representations.


  then Joj responded <snip>
>Before OoP, I thought R/H was going to happen.  After, I became a
huge H/H and nothing they might put in the POA movie this summer is 
going to
change my mind!

now kylie (me):
Katie Couric asked JKR this very question in the interview done at 
the release of OoP.  Katie asks if Harry and Hermione will ever get 
together, and JKR responds something like, "Harry and Hermione?  No, 
no, no.....RON and Hermione...."

kylie