JKR's Intent

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> Jen: ...<stip> but what's in the books 
> is perception as far as I can tell and not a fact like a math 
> problem.  <STIP>


Alla:

I did not mean to just tag along on your post again Jen, but you said 
it so beatifully :)

I mean, I am sure I mentioned it before that we can come up with 
things that are for sure there, but as long as things CAN be somehow 
inferred from canon, indeed it is all in the perception IMO.

Like case with Hermione's career for example. For years I hear 
Hermione yearning for knowledge, wanting to make WW a better place.

So we see her in the epilogue being married and having kids? Why 
would I make an assumption that this is all she is doing?

JKR's interview supports it, yes, but this is indeed all in the books 
for me.


OH OH it is like saying that if hypothetically we were not given 
epilogue at all that Ron and Hermione were not married.

And let's say JKR would say in interview that yes, they were, but 
book ends with no epilogue.

Would I acknoledge the validity of the interpretation that they were 
not married? Sure, of course.


But would I agree that me insisting that they are married is based 
ONLY on interview?

No way. I would say that it is where books were going from the book 1 
till the logical end, JKR did not HAVE to tell me that they were 
married to be sure of it.

I saw it right away, so interview just voiced what I already saw in 
the books, like with Hermione's career.

JMO,

Alla