*nods* I'm not a die hard R/S shipper but I do like them and it still felt like a kick in the stomache to me. I even went back and re-read parts of OOTP (the parts that the R/T shippers said were 'hints') and I still saw NOTHING to indicated they were anything but friends.

Nothing like the Remus and Sirius hints. I imagine Jo found some R/T shippers online and just thought, "Oh, maybe I'll throw that in, then" more than anything else. Of course I can't help but wonder WHY she did that, though.