SHIP: Pairing hints in EBD transcript

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No: HPFGUIDX 110162

> Stefanie:
Reposting of question for my own sanity :o)
|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.

> "What do you all think?"
> 
> C M:
> I think that when JKR said we'd have to "read between the lines" 
she 
> was referring to the lines of her *answer*, not the lines of the 
> books. In other words, we need to read between these lines: "I 
think 
> that, by now, I've given quite a lot of clues on the subject." 
And, 
> from my perspective, the clues she's given have all pointed to a 
> Ron/Hermione pairing. Obviously, YMMV.

Stefanie:
Didn't think of looking at it that way; quite good observation, 
there. However, now that I have looked it over in that way, I'm 
thinking, if she meant it in regards to her answer, she may've 
leaned towards saying "That is all I'm going to say. You will have 
to read between the lines on *this* one." I took the pronouns to 
refer as "that" is the question "this" is the answer. And to say 
that *all* of the clues point to R/HR is hardly taking canon into 
account :o)

Does anyone know if there's an audio version of this interview 
floating around somewhere? I'd love to hear JKR's inflections on 
some of these answers! (I'm a dork. Quite thoroughly. Talk nerdy to 
me.)

Stefanie