SHIP: JKR: Recent Comment on the Shipping Controversy

[anasazi_pr]

No: HPFGUIDX 102105

--- 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.


Hi, Peter. I believe the same way you do... I think JKR did want this 
question to be hard to answer.

R/Hr believers like sbursztynski and Firedancer believe firmly that 
R/Hr is the way to go, because they have "proof" that Hr/R like each 
other, with Ron's jealousy over Krum and Hermione's snapping at him 
that he should have asked her to the ball if he had a problem with 
her going with Krum.

But ask a H/Hr believer like myself and, apparently, mcmaxslb (in her 
post for "Re: Adolescent Development in OOTP"), and we are going to 
tell you exactly the opposite because we have "proof" that Hr is in 
love with H (although he's too thick to notice), with Krum's jealousy 
over Harry on GoF, and with her kiss on the cheek after a 
conversation with Krum at the end of GoF, and how she left Ron's very 
important championship game without so much as a protest to go with 
Harry and Hagrid to the forest (I'm a H/Hr shipper, and this even 
hurts me! Specially when we know she hasn't missed a single game of 
Harry), and her business-like tone when she interrogated him about 
Cho's kiss.

So you see, the so called "proof" is ambiguous at best and can be 
manipulated to our heart's content.

JKR might try to hide the fact that she made Hermione's object of 
affection ambiguous on purpose... but we know better!

She knows what she's doing... and is loving every minute of it!

Cheers,
Anasazi
-who feels strangely proud of finally making her first post on this 
list.