Pimp, please do not defend a couple in the anti thread. This is the place for people to vent about this couple and such. You can go to the Appreciation thread if you like this couple or ship. Thanks.
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Can you honestly say that if a classmate was in danger, and practiaclly only you knew about them being in danger, would you not try to do anything?
Anyway I wouldn't look too much into it at that point. Because that was the event that made them friends in the first place. There couldn't be any romantic interest at that point in any direction.
Hermione certainly didn't like either of them until they saved her.
Ron thought she was annoying. And Harry seemed indifferent.
Harry thought to save her because he's a good guy and it was the right thing to do. I think he would have done the same for anyone at that point.
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I think the most important word there was indifferent. Ron and Hermy are the ones that are passionate, in a good and bad sense. Harry is very often fairly indeifferent towards Hermione
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Phoe's right, Harry does seem indifferent towards Hermione, not in an intentionally rude way, it just seems like he's got more important things to think about. Ron, on the other hand, is either trying to make Hermione jealous or trying to impress her
Pardon my butting in, but I noticed a comment awhile back on this thread that rather bothered me. That H/Hr shipper who went off on a rant said that Hermione stood between Harry and Sirius in the Shrieking Shack and said 'If you want to kill Harry, you'll have to kill us too'.
Erh, that isn't true. RON said that-while standing on a broken leg, I might add. The line was given to Hermione in the movie for some reason.
I suggest he read the books. They really are much better.
I just never saw H/Hr as a good couple. Just seemed rather boring to me. No offense, really.
i'm back! i can hear everyone groaning already....just kidding.
i don't think harry feels indifferent towards hermione anymore. they have a good frienship now. she keeps his secrets and sometimes gives him advice. don't think i'me defending them or anything. i'm just pointing it out.
(interveiw with JK)
JKR:How did you feel about the romance?
[Melissa puts her thumbs up and grins widely while…]
ES: We were hi-fiving the whole time.
JKR: [laughs] Yes! Good. I'm so glad.
MA: We were running back and forth between rooms yelling at each other.
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.
ES: So he's got a little bit more than a teaspoon, now there’s a tablespoon?
JKR: Yeah, I think. [Laughter]
MA: Watching all this, were you surprised when you first logged on and found this intense devotion to this thing that you knew was not going to happen?
JKR: Yes. Well, you see, I'm a relative newcomer to the world of shipping, because for a long time, I didn't go on the net and look up Harry Potter. A long time. Occasionally I had to, because there were weird news stories or something that I would have to go and check, because I was supposed to have said something I hadn’t said. I had never gone and looked at fan sites, and then one day I did and oh - my - god. Five hours later or something, I get up from the computer shaking slightly [all laugh]. ‘What is going on?’ And it was during that first mammoth session that I met the shippers, and it was a most extraordinary thing. I had no idea there was this huge underworld seething beneath me.
ES: She’s putting it into a positive light!
JKR: Well I am, I am, but you know. I want to make it clear that delusional is your word and not mine! [Much laughter.]
MA: You're making our lives a lot easier by laying it on the table -
JKR: Well I think anyone who is still shipping Harry/Hermione after this book -
ES: [whispered] Delusional!
JKR: Uh - no! But they need to go back and reread, I think.
ES: Thank you.
JKR: Yeah.
MA: That is going to -
JKR: Will it make your lives slightly easier?
[All three]: Yeah, yeah.
JKR: I think so.
MA: I have to tell you, I'm looking forward to [this coming out], because, you know, a lot of this is predicated upon a necessary hate for another character. Ron has suffered horribly at the hands of Harry/Hermione shippers.
JKR: That bit makes me very uncomfortable, actually. Yeah, that bit does make me uncomfortable.
ES: Honestly, I think the Harry/Hermione shippers are a very small percentage of the population anyway.
MA: Yeah, if you do a general poll -
ES: They seem more prominant online, but that’s just because the online fandom is very -
MA: Militant was the best word I heard -
JKR: Militant is a beautifully chosen word. Energetic. Feisty.
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