[HPforGrownups]Help for a newbie? was: where the romance?

[Charles Walker Jr]

No: HPFGUIDX 161284

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Norma Jean Tran <hnjce at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Neil:
> Yes, I agree that all signs point to OBHWF and that is why I think 
that JKR is going to get the last laugh on all of us. She has never 
discussed Harry and Ginny, that I know of, and she has never said 
that a relationship between Ron and Hermione would work out, only 
that they would date.
> 
> She loves to have Ron and Hermione bicker. Maybe they are the comic 
relief for book seven and will fight the entire book, finally 
admitting that they should just be friends. Ginny, on the other hand, 
doesn't seem to like to be without a boyfriend. What if she doesn't 
wait around for Harry?
> 
Charles:
Actually, JKR has pretty much said that they are meant to be together 
in the Mugglenet/Leaky Cauldron interview(available at accio quote-
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-anelli-
2.htm):

"ES: We thought it was clearer than ever that Harry and Ginny are an 
item and Ron and Hermione — although we think you made it painfully 
obvious in the first five books —

JKR: [points to herself and whispers] So do I!

ES: What was that?

JKR: [More loudly] Well so do I! So do I!

[All laugh; Melissa doubles over, hysterical, and may have died.]

ES: Harry/Hermione shippers - delusional!

JKR: Well no, I'm not going to - Emerson, I am not going to say 
they're delusional! They are still valued members of my readership! I 
am not going to use the word delusional. I am however, going to say — 
now I am trusting both of you to do the spoiler thing when you write 
this up —

[More laughter.]

JKR: I will say, that yes, I personally feel - well it's going to be 
clear once people have read book six. I mean, that's it. It's done, 
isn't it? We know. Yes, we do now know that it's Ron and Hermione. I 
do feel that I have dropped heavy -

[All crack up]

JKR: - hints. ANVIL-sized, actually, hints, prior to this point. I 
certainly think even if subtle clues hadn't been picked up by the end 
of "Azkaban," that by the time we hit Krum in Goblet...

But Ron — I had a lot of fun with that in this book. I really enjoyed 
writing the Ron/Lavender business, and the reason that was enjoyable 
was Ron up to this point has been quite immature compared to the 
other two and he kind of needed to make himself worthy of Hermione. 
Now, that didn't mean necessarily physical experience but he had to 
grow up emotionally and now he's taken a big step up. Because he's 
had the meaningless physical experience - let's face it, his emotions 
were never deeply engaged with Lavender -

[Much laughter in which Melissa emits a "Won-Won"]

JKR: - and he's realized that that is ultimately not what he wants, 
which takes him a huge emotional step forward."

Between the books and JKR's statement there, we can safely say that 
Ron/Hermione is, period.

> 
> NJ:
>   Actually, this is a question for anyone and I'm not even sure 
this is allowed but I need help figuring this out. I've figured out 
all the abbreviations so far but what is OBHWF? 
>   Thanks in advance.

Charles:
It stands for One Big Happy Weasley Family. For future reference, 
most of the acronyms and abbreviations that get used here are in a 
database called Inish Alley that you can find under "Databases" to 
the left. It's spoken of in the HBF that all us newbies to the group 
get, but it is easy to miss in all that info.

Charles, who wants to see OBHWF at the end of book 7- well OBHWF-P. 
(OBHWF minus Percy, that is. As far as I'm concerned the power-hungry 
twit can rot)