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

I'm just of the opinion that Rowling is not going to give any part of her book away in an interview. I see that she only reiterated what we already think we know from the books.

And yet just a moment earlier you held up her "sinking" of Draco/Hermione as a model? That was an interview. That was "giving something away." It seems to me that when she feels like it, she will indeed give away things, and moreover that you know this; so I'm not sure what you're trying to prove changing your argument now into a blanket statement that even you don't evidently believe. You can't both hold up D/Hr as a model for how she sinks ships and also claim that she would never give anything away!

But anyway, it's kind of beside the point; as I've emphasized, she clearly thought in her interview that she was only reiterating what the reader who had gotten through book 6 already knew. She didn't seem to think she was giving anything away at all.

So I leave you to your snark and unwillingness to see anything any other way than what's directly on the surface.

"What's directly on the surface"? Look, there is no inherent virtue in making things much more complicated than they really are. My goal has been to try to find out the truth about what she's doing. If that truth is is very simple, so be it. If it's extremely complicated, that's fine. It seems it's somewhere in the middle. I think it's clear that her romantic pairings can't be that obvious, or there wouldn't have been any debate about it!

If you find a problem that you're trying to solve too easy, maybe it's time to find a harder problem, instead of pretending the one you've got is something other than it is.

If Rowling was being completely open about everything, then fine. I just happen to think she hasn't been.

"Everything"? Of course she hasn't been completely open about everything; she quite pointedly has refused to explain or discuss certain things about Snape, Dumbledore, and obviously the Horcruxes and so on. Remember all that? Her refusal to give away the conclusion to the main dramatic story has nothing to do with her acknowledging the way the romances are going.