You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

And I wouldn't call it pride that makes us so confident.

I agree completely. Certainly insofar as knowing that H/Hr ain't gonna happen. On that, books alone make me very, very confident. JKR's quotes make me certain.

I suppose some of us are a bit too sure about the inevitability of H/G & R/Hr with all of them alive for a good long while after Voldemort's defeat. Maybe pride (and/or wishful thinking) is a small part of it, perhaps.

Anyway, I'm sure there will be gloating and glee from some individuals even w/o H/Hr should OBHWF not materialize in full. And, hey, I'm prepared to take that medicine too.

O.o -- does anything here mean we don't 'get' to gloat after book 7?

Nah, after all, apparently we'll still have that opportunity to be obnoxious about our ability to correctly interpret her quotes too. Maybe vanceone is right about something though: that really ISN'T something we have reason to get all big-headed about :p