>>89045940Ehh. She said that Ginny, in hindsight, felt more like a self-insert character than a character in her own right, and that if she had been indulging "Artistic Integrity", she would have paired Harry/Hermione. Also, I guess she felt that Ron/Hermione wouldn't have had "real" romantic chemistry.
Which. I mean. She also thought it was convincing to call American Muggles "NoMaj", so who the hell thinks she's an expert on anything? =D
My lamppost in this conversation is that, as a young reader reading Harry Potter, I never once felt like there was anything resembling sexual tension between Harry and Hermione, but I also didn't feel it between Ron and Hermione either, so I'm probably the exact wrong person to ask. I definitely think Ron/Hermione was a better call than Harry/Ginny, but if it had been up to me, I wouldn't have paired any of the triangle with anyone else in the triangle.
And yet I'm a Starco shipper.
I guess the lesson here is that the answer to the question of "Should you take the besties and pair them off romantically?" ended up being "Sometimes. Maybe the work 'think' isn't a four letter word."