[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: movie contamination

[Erika L.]

No: HPFGUIDX 84272

kylie wrote:
>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...."

Erika (Wolfraven):

That's one of those interviews that I keep hearing R/Hers refer to, but which I rarely see quoted word for word. So, without further ado, here it is:

Couric: "Any snogging with Hermione?"
Rowling: "Hermione and Harry?! Do you think so?"

Couric: "No I'm kidding. 

Rowling: "Ron and Hermione, I would say, have more tension there

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2003/0620-dateline-couric.htm

There's a huge difference between JKR saying "No" flat out, and JKR saying there's more tension between Ron and Hermione. That there's tension is obvious. That it will necessarily lead to a relationship is debateable. People have been debating shipping issues for years. That wouldn't be the case if there were a single obvious answer. Personally, I think JKR is just toying with us.

    To my knowledge, JKR has never emphatically put down H/H or any other ship for that matter. She has said that Harry and Hermione are platonic, that something's going on between Ron and Hermione, and so on. And while such comments may be clues, they could just as easily be misleading. I really see JKR as being quite sneaky; she's not going to give it away one way or the other. Just look at Rowling's comments on shipping from the June 19, 2003 interview with Jeremy Paxman (Newsnight/BBC ):

JP: Unlikely pairings? Not Hermione and Draco Malfoy or anything like that? 

JKR: I don't really want to say as it will ruin all the fan sites. They have such fun with their theories - and it is fun, it is fun. And some of them even get quite close.

    I don't think she's going to tell us. Her comments hint at R/H, but any H/Her worth her salt will tell you that JKR's replies are oblique and just her way of throwing people off the trail.

Brian wrote:

  > 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 

    As to whether the movies influence shipping, I have to admit that I saw the movies before I read the books. However, I still ended up as an H/Her and I find my evidence for the ship in the books. Anyway, just my two knuts.

Erika (Wolfraven) 

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