Fish, what you said is the most sensible thing I've read on this issue:



I do think the whole plot of HBP was about maturation, romantic and otherwise. And in this sense, the romances reflect, as I've said elsewhere, the tensions and difficulties in the other aspects of the story, even as they are something of a diversion from it. There is a tremendous need for maturing between Ron and Hermoine, both for the sake of their relationship and for their individual self-discovery processes. Harry and Ginny have had more of that kind of processing foisted on them, at least Ginny has, but more needs to be done if there is time. But all this happens against a background of Harry learning what his loyalty to DD really means (that it is not DD helping him be special, but DD training him to fight LV serious; that choices really are the backbone of the events that befall us; that people are not always what you want or expect them to be, etc.). And this is against the background of the title: the young Snape helping Harry, the young Snape having become the actual potions master, the young Snape taking on (what I hope and believe) was the terrifying responsibility of killing DD for the bigger cause. And maybe the book was about Harry becoming himself the Half Blood Prince at last, ready to fight Lord V.

Ron and Hermione
Harry and Ginny
Bill and Fleur
Lupin and Tonks

Those are the relationships i think are going to happen

[font=Book Antiqua][size=3] This is my opinion...

[b] Harry/Ginny
Ron/Hermione
Lavender/Seamus
Neville/Parvarti
Pansy/Goyle or Crabbe (seeing as her boyfriend ran off to be a Death Eater... )

I think that there will be some sort of relationship stuff in book 7, but it will probably be more along the lines of just a mention that Harry and Ginny got back together or that she'll risk being his girlfriend or something like that... I don't think it will go into detail like it did in book 6 about them getting caught snogging or anything like that.

[size=7]Definitely something will happen with Ron and Hermiones relationship. Harry and Ginny? maybe

YES! Relationships will be a big feature, i think. If Harry can only defeat LV with love, it only makes sense that the book revolve around relationships and how they contribute to the war effort. Not just Boyfriend/Girlfriend relationships either. I think friendships..families...organizations like OoTP...and the relationship between arch enemies will all come into play in a big way.

i rele lik the idea tht realships will b in the bk cuz
hermoine and ron BIG
Harry and Ginny big
i hope tht only hthose 2 will b work on the main charathers aye rte??
i thik tht heriome and ginny r going 2 help harry and ron difeat voldy

i mean they ( hp and rw r going 2 need it

I think there will be a medium amount of relationships. I think that jkr will be too busy getting in all of the things we know will be in there to feature it constantly, but she can't just forget about it. Ok, it says don't talk about ships, but I don't really see the point of this thread if we don't(plus everyone else did, so if i get in trouble, everyone else better too.). Anyway... These are my predictions:

Ron and Hermione(definately, jkr sid it herself)
Lupin and Tonks
Bill and Fleur
Fred and Angelina???

I wish...
Harry and Ginny, but I have a feeling they are over tear tear.
Neville and Luna, but that has been proved wrong.

I hope there is snogging because it just helps show you that they are real teenagers.