A comment on SHIPs

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 119840


Arya writes:
You're right of course. I should have included Death as a potential
LT ship for Neville and/or Luna. Either way, I still hold to thinking
the debunking means Neville and/or Luna have a certain fate (other
partner, death, Dementor Kiss, falling into Mount Doom...)decreed for
them by JKR that both enabled her to debunk and motivated her.

Neil then wrote:
You could be correct, but I think it is more a case of JKR just not
liking a subject thread and wanting it ended. She doesn't like
Voldemort being called Voldie. She can't see how people can possible
like someone as nasty as Draco Malfoy. She has made it rather clear he
is not going to become good.
And it turned her stomach to think that anyone could ever consider a
relationship between Draco and Hermione. I think Nevelle/Luna is just
another one of those places she just, doesn't want people to go.
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Yes, but I think you're missing the point.  JKR is perhaps wishing
fans to not detract from his ability to be seen now and in the future
canon as a menacing antagonist so she said what she said (and also
partly in chastising jest). She knows what Voldemort will do and knows
"Volde" isn't a suitable moniker.  For Draco, JKR also knows what will
happen to Draco and what he will do and so, she cautions Draco fen
from hoping and wishing on something that just isn't going to happen.
 Same for Draco/Hermione--Draco, obviously, isn't going to be good and
isn't for Hermione (or something, I'm not trying to argue about that
now) so JKR cautions those hanging their hopes on that ship that it's
not going to happen and even does some explanation, IIRC.  

See, she debunks those theories that are not just things that will not
come true in solid canon form but which will be likely actively and
outright contradicted by future canon.

Draco and Hermione will not get together simply because JKR isn't
going to write it but because one or both will do have their
character's evolve in a way to make this ship contrary to canon (be
that death, definitive split of ideals and actions, other attachments,
etc).  

There are things to be inferred from JKR debunking theories.

Arya