Shipping in GoF, Important or Not?

[A.J.]

No: HPFGUIDX 99798

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Susanne <siskiou at v...> wrote:

> 
> Apart from Krum, all of the people involved are young
> teenagers, so I doubt any of the trio was supposed to be truly in
> love at this point.

When I read JKR's comments in the past, coupled with the 'tell me my 
books aren't like real life!' after reading GOF, I always thought it 
was that everybody WENT TO THE BALL WITH someone they weren't 
interested in and spent the ball wondering about the person they 
liked better (or, if Hermione, covered it pretty well till after the 
ball).

Interesting alternate speculations since on this board, though!

aj