SHIP: Need opinions? That's easy!

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 97186

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt"
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> > Ghostwriter:" Ok, I am sure this is a topic that has been beaten to
> > death on this  list..."
> > 
> > If you only knew the half of it....
> >  
> > Ghostwriter "Harry and Hermione or Ron and Hermione?  To me, these are
> > the only  pairings that may come out of the book that are important.
> > 
> > Jim (me): I'll try.  I'm an H/H shipper, but I don't go around looking
> > for tiny clues – I don't care whose pillow lands on whose in Charms
> > class.  I see Harry and Hermione converging all the time. They've
> > changed each other and are more complete together than apart.
> >  
> 
> Better go for your alternatives, Jim.
> 
> H/H looks like a non-runner.
> 
> Press Club interview 20 Oct. 1999:
> JKR:
> "Oh, I like this one.....do Harry and Hermione have a date? No.They
are..
> they're very  platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else,
nudge,
> nudge, wink, wink."

I'm aaware of that one. If JKR was closing the door on the H/H ship,
it would be the first plot element she ever did so for.  I think it's
fair to say that quote was made before the publication of GoF and
fairly reflects the state of affairs *then*.  IOW, did Harry and
Hermione have a date in GoF? They didn't, and haven't yet, actually.
Neither have Ron and Hermione that we can be sure of.

JKR means for everything to be open.

Jim Ferer