SHIP: Harry and Hermione together per JKR chat?

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 92852

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:

> Susan:
> Jim, even though I tend pretty strongly to R/H & H/G, I did enjoy 
> this post quite a bit.  My one quibble is with your statement that 
> Harry "spontaneously" burst out with "But I don't think you're 
> ugly!"  

I *really, really* do not think we can read too much into 
> that remark.  

I don't think I do; I present it in context with other things; by
itself, it isn't much.

Susan:"Remember the scene.  It's over the Cho debacle, and 
> Hermione is trying to show Harry what he did wrong.  He should have 
> told Cho, says Hermione, that he thinks Hermione is ugly.  To which 
> Harry **replies,** "But I don't think you're ugly!"  
> 
> First, I Hermione likely isn't ugly at all, so Harry is simply 
> stating a fact.
> 
> Second, a girl has just "called" herself ugly.  Wouldn't most people 
> make the considerate remark and protest?

Yes, someone might, but I just re-read the scene and I still feel the
spontaneity of Harry's answer.  Prejudiced? Maybe.  And there's
something more there.  Cho is jealous of Hermione with respect to
Harry.  Why? I wonder if she senses their closeness.

Susan:"I think this situation was part of his "I  don't get girls"
thing, and he focused on Hermione's "you should have told her you
thought I was ugly" rather than on her **plan** of how a  guy
convinces a girl he doesn't like another girl."

That's not an unfair reading, IMO.

One other thing: Although I don't see either Ron or Hermione being
happy together, I have no problem with H/G at all.  She's a great kid.
 I love the way she integrates Fred and George while keeping a lid on
their wilder tendencies while staying feminine all at the same time. 
I have to come down on the H/H side because they really, really, click.

Jim Ferer