"A Little Romance"

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GEO wrote:: If I recall she cheered him up by  giving him 
information that turned out to be false and misleading so in  the 
end listening to Ginny really didn't turn out to be his benefit  
considering his possession by Voldemort was quite different than 
that she experiences via his diary.

Chancie replied: How exactly do you know Ginny was lying GEO?  Just 
because they had different experiences doesn't mean that she was 
lying.  Are you suggesting that Ginny was willing to open the CoS, 
or that she was aware of her actions during that time?  It is quite 
possible to have the same thing happen to two different people and 
them end up with 2 very different accounts on how it happened.  If 
you need any proof of that, just ask any woman who has given birth, 
every situation is different, but it still ends in a baby.


**Marcela now:  I believe that Chancie misunderstood/misread GEO's 
statement... GEO never said that Ginny lied to Harry.  He said that 
she gave him information that turned out to be false and misleading.
Which was true, her possession experience with Diary!Riddle was very 
different from Harry's possession from VoldyII.

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Chancie wrote:  <snip> I still would like to hear your thoughts on 
the fact that JKR was  asked

"Will Harry and Hermione  *****EVER***** have a date?"  she said 
NO, but that she won't answer for anyone else.  You've said  before
that she was talking about GoF, but the word EVER in my opinion is
An indefinite thing.  Jo may be misleading with her answers at 
times, But are you suggesting that she would out and out lie?  I 
don't  think she would, especially since she knows we'll find out 
one way or the other later on, and then she'd be forced to deal with 
all the  Ron/Hermione Shippers who would want to tell her off for 
giving them false hope.
Besides she's said she wasn't going to answer questions before, why  
didn't she apply that to this question if she was trying to hide 
something.   I think it is VERY clear that Harry and Hermione will 
NEVER EVER end up together.  


Marcela now:  Sorry for meddling here, but I believe that -yet again-
 there is some misunderstanding of the English language here...
This is the quote you're talking about:

Transcript of National Press Club author's luncheon, NPR Radio, 
October 20, 1999
Transcript courtesy of Hogwarts Library; Transcribed by Loriba; 
special thanks to Earwax and Troels Forchhammer for proofreading.

"...Sean Bullard: Hello everyone! May I have your attention for a 
moment please? Hi, I'm Sean Bullard. I am chairman of the book and 
author committee here at the National Press Club.
<snip>
Following custom, I will introduce our guest. **She will then offer 
us some magical insight into her new book, Harry Potter and the 
Prisoner of Azkaban. And then I would like to encourage those of you 
who have questions to point ... print them on the index cards 
provided at each table and then pass them forward.** Following 
questions, I will wrap up the event promptly, so that our guest has 
time to sign books ... and I believe also to catch a plane.
<snip of whole interview until the very last question>

Sean Bullard: Um, is there anything that you'd wanna add?

J.K. Rowling: No, I'll take one more question because they didn't 
really get an answer to that.

Sean Bullard: Very good.

J.K. Rowlingquestion22: Nah ... don't like that one.  Oh I like this 
one: "Do Harry and Hermione have a date?"
No! They're, they're very platonic friends. But I won't answer for 
anyone else, nudge, nudge, wink, wink. ..." (**are mine)

Soooo, if you read carefully, this interview was in 1999, Jo was 
giving it because of her next book "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of 
Azkaban" and was going to answer to question posted to her about 
that book... Next, the written question she personally picked from 
the public was phrased in the Simple Present Tense "Do Harry and 
Hermione have a date?".  Her answer was in present too, and her 
indication of anyone else might be Viktor and Cho, after all, she 
was focusing on Harry and Hermione and they did date in her next two 
books.

I can understand that shipping and JKR's quotes don't mix well, 
especially when interpretation comes into play.  In the end what 
matters in real canon, not quotes, IMO.
Nevertheless, it would be more helpful to quote those interviews 
accurately, and let readers in this site make their own 
interpretations.

Marcela