SHIP: Harry and Hermione together per JKR chat?

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 92730


> 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.<

Pippin: 
> ::blinks:: Is this movie contamination? Or maybe we're *not* 
> reading the same book <g>
> 
> ===
> "It's the girls' toilets!" Harry gasped.
> "*Hermione!*" they said together.
> ===
> 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.
> 

Annemehr:
Well, Pippin, apparently you're reading an abridged version! <jk>

Before the part you cited, when everyone is supposed to be going back
to their dormitories per Dumbledore's orders:

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They passed different groups of people hurrying in different
directions.  As they jostled their way through a crowd of confused
Hufflepuffs, Harry suddenly grabbed Ron's arm.

"I've just thought -- Hermione."

"What about her?"

"She doesn't know about the troll."

Ron bit his lip.

"Oh, all right," he snapped.  "But Percy'd better not see us."
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And off they go to look for Hermione (Ron suprisingly reluctant,
actually).

Niether of them realised the room they locked the troll into was a
bathroom at all until Hermione screamed, so I don't read anything into
that.

Annemehr
not much of a SHIPper but likes Harry and Hermione just as they are