[HPforGrownups] Re: A comment on SHIPs

[Vivamus]

No: HPFGUIDX 119807

> > afiveouncebird:
> > As we all know by now, JKR recently updated her site.  In her 
> > 'rumours' section you find out that Neville and Luna are 
> not getting 
> > together  (See
> > http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/rumours_view.cfm?id=24 ). 
>  I think 
> > she is also implying that the H/G and R/H SHIPs won't work out
> either.
> 
> 
> mcmaxslb:
> In sinking the Neville/Luna ship JKR has also dealt a blow to 
> both Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny. For now Neville and Luna 
> are realistic alternatives for Ron and Ginny respectively.
 
Vivamus:

I don't think her quote implies that at all.  I read it as saying,
essentially, "It is safer to tell you about Harry/Luna than about Hermione's
relationships with Ron or Harry, because there doesn't seem to be as much
fan blood on the ground defending one ship or the other.  So, I will tell
you about this one, but not tell you about the other ones."

Here is her exact quote: "The Luna/Neville shippers are much less vehement
and scary than the Harry/Hermione, Ron/Hermione tribes, so I hope I won't
receive too much hate mail for quashing this rumour."  (continuing, she
answers the Neville/Luna question.)

I think her other quotes on the ships are pretty good indicators of what she
is thinking along those lines, so I wouldn't jump to conclusions too quickly
from the above quote.

Vivamus, who thought on first reading of book one that the little girl with
Mrs. Weasley was curious about Harry for a reason