What Jo says about...
Relationships
Please note: unless you see quotemarks, these are summaries, and not JKR's words themselves. Please see the linked article for the actual text.
- At this time she’s writing the fourth book, and she says: "Everyone's in love with the wrong person, it's brilliant." [Read the exact quote from Scotland on Sunday, 1999]
- Harry & Hermione are platonic friends, "but I won't answer for anyone else, nudge, nudge, wink, wink." [Read the exact quote from National Press Club, 1999]
- Was something going on between Ron and Hermione during the last half of GOF? JKR: "Yes, something's 'going on' ... but Ron doesn't realise it yet ... typical boy" [Read the exact quote from the Yahooligans! chat, 2000]
- Harry and Cho were "never going to be happy...." [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
- Harry will have some time for romance in book 6. [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
- Does Hermione love Ron or Harry? JKR: "I can't believe that some of you haven't worked this one out yet"[Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
- Jo is amused that more young girls fall in love with Tom as Draco than with Dan as Harry. "Girls, stop going for the bad guy." [Read the exact quote from Edinburgh Book Festival, 2004]
- JKR jokingly tells us that she finds it depressing that we love Snape and her bad boys. [Read the exact quote from Edinburgh Book Festival, 2004]
- Arthur Levine says: Book 6 “has more romance in general.” [Read the source for Arthur Levine quote from report on BookExpo America, 2005]
- JK had fun with the romance in Book 6. She hopes that the trends are now entirely clear. "I really enjoyed writing the Ron/Lavender business." Ron needed to "grow up emotionally." [Read the whole quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
- Harry/Hermione shippers "need to go back and reread." [Read the whole quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
- Draco worship worries her. "Draco, whatever he looks like, is not a nice man." [Read the whole quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
- Quite a few boys were attracted to Lily. “Like Ginny, she was a popular girl.” [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
- “Lupin was very fond of Lily” but he did not compete with James for her. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
- Snape has been loved by someone. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
- Hermione would see the trio “alive and unscathed and Voldemort finished” in the Mirror of Erised. She may also see herself in a romantic embrace. [Read the whole quote from RCMH1, 2006]
- Jo found the shipping wars upsetting and likened it to cyber gang warfare. [Read the whole quote from RCMH1, 2006]