Reading by JK Rowling at Radio City - Spoilers Within (SHIP)

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 156431

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jordan Abel" <random832 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > Ken:
> > As for shippers: I've read a comment from her somewhere that she 
can't
> > believe folks are still shipping Harry/Hermione after HBP. Well 
excuse
> > me but do high school romances always become life long 
relationships?
> >
> > Lynda:
> > But she never gave any indication of a H/H ship.
> 
> I think the point was that the belief that, after HBP, H/G is "the one
> true way" (as JKR apparently does) is based on an inherently flawed
> assumption that "high school romances always become life long
> relationships".
>
zgirnius:
That assumption is deeply flawed when considering what might happen to 
high school kids of one's own acquaintance, but it is certainly not 
unheard of. My mother was 17 when she first saw my father (20). She 
claims she arranged to be introduced to him, and knew he was 'the one'. 
They were married 2 years later (she wanted to finish college) and they 
are still together 38 years after.

However, the extent to which such an assumption is flawed is not very 
relevant to the question of H/G. Rowling has written her Epilogue. If, 
in it, Harry and Ginny are happily married, that's it. It does not 
matter how young they were when they first became a couple.