SHIP: JKR: Recent Comment on the Shipping Controversy

[anasazi_pr]

No: HPFGUIDX 102166

anasazi_pr wrote:
> > Q: Is Harry going to be back in the Quidditch Team on Book Six?
> > JKR: Harry is already on the team. Whether the new Captain lets 
> > him stay is a whole other story?

Susanne <siskiou at v...> wrote:
> IIRC, you got the names mixed up.
> 
> Someone asked if *Ron* was going to join the Quidditch team
> (and since he already joined in OotP, the answer was that he
> is already on the team).

Oops. My bad. You are right. That's a theory down the toilet.


> Tara here:
> By the way, I think the most conclusive evidence is when Jo told 
> Katie Couric that it would be R/Hr and not H/Hr as Katie believed. 


This is the interview you are referring to:
----
"Couric: "Any snogging with Hermione?"

Rowling: "Hermione and Harry! Do you think so?"

Couric: "No I'm kidding. 

Rowling: "Ron and Hermione, I would say, have more potential (or did 
she say "tension") there" (A/N: I know this is a crucial sentence, 
but I had some trouble understanding her here— she mumbles the 
sentence a little. This is my best interpretation! Either way, R/H 
shippers around the world are grinning!)
----

JK is ambiguous as usual, because she still doesn't answer the 
question (this question is about OoTP). The potential for R/Hr is in 
the books because is clear what Ron feels for Hermione... what's not 
so clear is what Hermione feels for Ron (and of course, what Harry 
feels for anyone other than Cho). Again, think about the way the 
original question in her site was stated... the question was Who 
Hermione loved... because there's no doubt about who Ron loves and no 
one has absolutely any idea of who Harry loves (not even the poor 
bloke!). 

This sort of reminds me about JKR's answer to every question 
regarding Harry's future: she always says "If he lives"... Of course, 
I don't believe for a minute that Harry will die (this is, after all, 
a children's book) and if anyone's buying the farm, is either 
Hermione (I can't get her out of my head since the silence killing 
curse in DoM) or Ron (whomping willow, Die-Ron-Die, ches match). But 
JKR's answer is a deliberate reminder that NOTHING in her books can 
be taken for granted. Maybe that's the source of her ambiguousness 
relating to the shipping subject... maybe she doesn't want H/Hr or 
R/Hr to take their ship for granted until she's ready to reveal what 
it is.

Anasazi