[HPforGrownups] Re: Why did JKR not explore H/Hr as canon?

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 168716

Don:

If you are looking for evidence that JKR didn't want H/Hr for her story, I
suggest that you don't seek it within the first five books of canon.  It
isn't there, in my opinion...in fact, I'd say she was exploring H/Hr up
through OoTP (particularly in Book 5)...which is partly why I was so
disappointed with HBP and it's forced rehabilitation/re-packaging of Ginny
as a suitable match for Harry.  Of course, there's JKR's interviews to fall
back upon, but it's one thing to say H/Hr is "delusional," and quite another
to convincingly show my opinions to be "delusional" within the sustained
narrative.
   

Sherry now:
Actually, though I don't care much if anything about the relationships in
the books, this is a good example of how different readers see very
different things.  I saw Harry and Ginny from book one.  I never even had a
fleeting thought that JKR could be going toward a Harry Hermione ship.
Books four and five really sealed that for me, especially book five.  The
Harry and Hermione dynamic always felt more like sister and brother to me,
never the least bit more than that and good friends.  Hermione is too much
of a nag, and Harry resents it at times, and just blows it off at others, or
ignores her.  She's too darned interfering for him too,, as in the Firebolt
incident in book three.  As for Ginny's supposed transformation, I never saw
a sudden change in her.  I guessed about her personality in her first scene
in book one and everything else throughout all the books only confirmed it
to me.

It's fascinating, how we all read the same books and how we each so strongly
get different things out of it.  

Sherry