SHIP: Harry and Hermione together per JKR chat?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 92709

Neil:
> It is amazing how people can read the same book and get 
totally different  views on a subject.  In my opinion Harry had 
much more to do with Hermione  becoming a friend of his and 
Ron than Ron did.  Harry was the one to think of  Hermione and 
go off to find her when the troll was in the castle.  That started
the friendship.<

::blinks:: Is this movie contamination? Or maybe we're *not* 
reading the same book <g>

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"It's the girls' toilets!" Harry gasped.
"*Hermione!*" they said together.
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Bloomsbury, PS ch 10

It was Harry who had the brilliant idea of locking the troll in...not 
one of his stellar heroic achievements <g>  and Ron who  
knocked out the Troll. It would have been a very short series 
without him.

Neil:
> If it hadn't been for Harry, I doubt very much that Ron and 
Hermione would  even be on speaking terms.  He was the 
mutual friend that kept bringing them  back together after 
numerous fights.  The way the two fight, it seems that their 
 friendship with Harry is the only thing they have in common.<

Hermione worked awfully hard to get Ron and Harry back 
together in GoF.  Alot of  Hermione's  social development seems 
to be more down to Ron than Harry. Ron's the one who gets her 
to play games, takes her on her first visit to Hogsmeade, invites 
her to stay with his family, and lets her know  more than once 
that being too much like Percy is not on.

Pippin