SHIP: Harry and Hermione together per JKR chat?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 92821

Pippin previously
> > Hermione worked awfully hard to get Ron and Harry back 
> > together in GoF.  

Great Elder One:
> Possibly because she understood that the three of them were 
stronger  together than apart.<

Then surely Ron has some redeeming qualities in her eyes <g>

Pippin previously:
> > 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,<<

Great Elder One 
> I really don't understand how these points are significant for 
social  development. I agree Ron helps her adjust to the magical 
world just as he did for Harry however I'm sure she probably did 
all these  things in her previous years when she wasn't attending 
Hogwarts. Besides none of these things are things that go 
against her nature imo.<

When Ron wasn't around in GoF, Hermione spent all her time 
with Harry in the Library--no games of  chess or exploding snap. 
It's not that having fun is against her nature, but she seems so 
unsure of herself that she thinks she has to study all the time, 
even though she's already the best student in her year. It's Ron 
who gets her to enjoy herself, IMO. Without him, she'd be doing 
her best to turn Harry into a workaholic.

Pippin continued:
> 
> > and lets her know  more than once 
> > that being too much like Percy is not on.

Great Elder One: 
> And being friends with Harry is what changes her in my frank 
opinion.  Who does she lie for? Who does she break the rules( 
including brewing a dangerous potion, helping with an illegal 
club and breaking into  the headmaster's office<


Who indeed? <g> The dangerous potion was to help *her*, the 
only Muggleborn in the group.No one knew that the Heir had 
targeted Harry. The DA was also to help *her* and the other 
students including Ron--Harry   was  in far less need of practical 
DADA lessons than anyone else in the school. He didn't use any 
spells in the combat which he didn't know already. 

Breaking into Umbridge's office she did for Harry, but  if she 
hadn't, Sirius would still be alive, so maybe she won't be so 
cooperative in the future.

>) If it wasn't for Harry she would be a  very different person ditto 
for Harry if Hermione wasn't there.<

True. But you could say the same about Ron.

Pippin