SHIP: JKR: Recent Comment on the Shipping Controversy

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No: HPFGUIDX 102002

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Peter Shea <harp66 at y...> wrote:
> On her website, JKR addresses the raging shipping controversy in the following manner:
>  
> Q:Does Hermione love Ron or Harry?
> 
> A: I can't believe that some of you haven't worked this one out yet, but I'm not  going to 
answer because that would spoil the arguments, which I enjoy.
> 
> Am I the only surprised that JKR believes the answer is an easy one to work out since 
there are many diligent amateur Potterists who have analyzed the textual evidence who 
cannot answer the question beyond a shadow of a doubt? I had begun to believe that JKR 
wanted this question to be hard to answer.
> 
>  Peter Shea

I think it was pretty clear by GoF that Ron and Hermione were a junior Benedick and 
Beatrice - and if that isn't enough, Hermione is very much the helpful friend in the case of 
Cho Chang, in OOP. I am only surprised that there is any argument over this. (g) And by 
the film of CoS, JKR was throwing out hints that the scriptwriter had put in a clue to things 
that would happen in future books - in the context, I believe it was that scene where 
Hermione cheerfully hugs Harry, but gets all awkward and shy with Ron and shakes hands. 
By the third movie, she is throwing her arms around him to weep - and I haven't heard JKR 
complain about this.

Sorry, Peter, but I think it's clear - to me, at least - in the novels AND films that Hermione 
and Ron will eventually be an item. :-)