SHIP: Pairing hints in EBD transcript

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No: HPFGUIDX 110155

Stefanie:
|Q:Will Ron and Hermione ever get together?
|
|A: Well—[Laughter.] What do you think? 
|[Audience member: I think they will]. 
|I'm not going to say. I can't say, 
|can I? I think that, by now, I've given 
|quite a lot of clues on the subject. That 
|is all I'm going to say. You will have to 
|read between the lines on that one.
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Now, JKR certainly wasn't forthcoming with this answer, as I'm sure 
we all expect her to behave with questions like this...but the 
answer, nonetheless is quite interesting.

"You will have to read between the lines on that one"
Could this be a hint towards an H/HR leaning? It's often been touted 
that R/HR is "obvious," especially by R/HRers themselves, while H/HR 
supporters wave the banner of subtext. One certainly doesn't need to 
read between the lines to glean a R/HR leaning.

Of course, there are other 'ships that one could "read between the 
lines" for. I'm sure supporters of many ships could use this quote 
as supporting evidence, but as the main questioning that JKR has 
dealt with concerns a "trio pairing," it's not an off assumption to 
keep it to that.

Since the "read between the lines" quote came after her 
conclusive "that is all I'm going to say," does it even apply at all?

So, canonically, what lines up with this quote? There's certainly 
H/HR between the lines, with Hermione constantly paying attention to 
Harry on a more personal level than others, their ability to read 
each other, and plenty of other things that I'm sure have been 
hashed and rehashed on the board. One can also say that Hermione's 
feelings for *anyone* require the reading between the lines, as 
she's certainly not obvious to the 3rd person-limited POV either 
way. No quote is going to be the be-all end-all to any 'shipping 
debate, but I can see a bit of a H/HR favoring in this. What do you 
all think?