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

[Kamil]

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<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>
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.

<Kamil now>
It is, isn't it? I always saw the R/Hr and H/G dynamic, and never saw
a whisper of H/Hr in the books (although occasionally it slipped into
the media who dares not speak its name, and therefore does not count)-
and I'd like to think I read as throughly as anyone else.

As well, I too never really saw a major transformation, or personality
transplant, in Ginny, rather I just saw a fairly pushy young girl all
along (who had a stupid crush on Harry, almost as stupid as the one
Hermione had at the same age on Lockhart), one who Ron tried to push
at Harry fairly early on (his breakup with Cho comes to mind, when Ron
told him he might want to look at more stable girls, complete with a
look that Harry noticed, but didn't process the way Ron probably
intended).

And I don't remember ever thinking that R/Hr would not be the couple
de jour; it seems to me that they were always quite obviously the way
the story would go.

For a bit I thought they'd be it, the only real romance in the books,
that Harry would only date occasionally, or possibly not at all, given
the disaster that was Cho, but then twigged to Ginny being the girl Jo
had in mind for him - not that Harry noticed at the time.

So, yeah, it is interesting how different people can read the same
text and get totally different things from it.
-- 
Kamil --> who actually prefers H/Hr (and Draco/Ginny or G/Hr) in her
fanfic, but who totally recognizes that canon will never ever go
there, and is quite good with that.