The fans who believed in the canonical pairing were outraged that Rowling would say such things about their beloved Romione.

If you want to know how many people are taller than six feet tall, then you just pick people out at random, and you see that maybe forty of them are more than six feet so you guess that maybe everybody is. Sounds stupid. Well, it is and it isn't. If you pick the hundred out by seeing which ones come through a low door, you're going to get it wrong.

But there is, as in other woods, a great deal of difference between this and the quartered timber.

Someone will eventually figure out the secrets of Orson's vision. But no one will be able to reproduce it. He's made sure of that with the bio-codes and micro-bio-infusers.