World Book Day Question

[Melanie Kirkham]

No: HPFGUIDX 102485

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mcdee1980" <mcdee1980 at y...> 
wrote:
> I was reading back through the WBD Chat and this popped out at me
> 
> 
> JK Rowling replies -> I've got plans for all my characters. 
Actually, 
> this is a really good place to answer a question about Draco and 
> Hermione, which a certain*** Ms. Radcliffe***(emph added) is 
> desperate to have answered. Will they end up together in book 
> six/seven? NO! The trouble is, of course, that girls fancy Tom 
> Felton, but Draco is NOT Tom Felton! (My daughter likes TF very 
much 
> too, because he taught her how to use a diablo 
> 
> 
> Who is JKR talking about . . . was this a typo?  Or is she implying 
> something else, or is there a Ms Radcliffe we don't know about!
> 
> Lady McBeth, not usually a shipper, but confused by this!

Ann Radcliffe was a late 18th to early 19th century English author 
(around the time of Jane Austen).  She wrote gothic romance novels, 
including  _The Mysteries of Udolpho_ and _The Romance of the 
Forest_.  I haven't read her novels yet, but I imagine a 
Draco/Hermione ship would be her kind of thing.  My guess is the JKR 
used the reference to Ms. Radcliffe to make a joke about the 
questioner's gothic tendencies.

melmel