A Choice I Made For Very Personal Reasons
In my recent post about reconsidering JK Rowling's writing of romance in the Harry Potter series in light of the additional information from her later works, I declared myself puzzled by the following words of Rowling's:
What I will say is that I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment.
I wrote:
And it is not quite clear ( Read more... )
What I will say is that I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment.
I wrote:
And it is not quite clear ( Read more... )
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You make some good points and I don't really think Hermione would be bored with Ron. I think they would be happy together! But I was trying (not always successfully) to think and write about what J K Rowling might have been thinking, and trying to feel my way into explaining/justifying some of the things she said like "but the combative side of it… I’m not sure you could have got over that in an adult relationship, there was too much fundamental incompatibility" and "in some ways Hermione and Harry are a better fit." You might say I'm trying to reconcile my author-worshipping with my R/Hr-shipping ( ... )
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I was thinking this exact thing yesterday when I saw the video, but I hadn't been able to find one. So I made one. :P
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But I'm still with low expectations because after the interview of Doom, I'm too weary to be optimistic.
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FWIW it's just like LJ, copy and paste and put it under a readmore. Longish meta posts have crossed my dashboard often. If you tag it with "harry potter" and "meta" (not sure if it has a dedicated tag) it will be out in the wild for tag browsers to see too.
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I'm not saying the answer is "no" but I'm not sure the answer is "yes" either. And I imagine Rowling would be thinking less of "what would make Hermione happy?" and more of "what would make a good story?" That's where I think she mentioned the words "very little to do with literature"---she probably was realizing that probably some of her critics had a point when saying that the romance of Harry and Ginny was a bit pasted on (because it wasn't as well-integrated into the adventure action as it could have been) and the romance of Ron and Hermione also suffered from not having a point-of-view window into either character and forcing all their interactions to be either in Harry's presence or with Harry unwittingly eavesdropping. (I also think she dragged out their "getting together" unrealistically, somewhat muting its impact, but I don't think Rowling sees it that way.)
YES to all of this. Even the last bit.
I think truly good "from agitation to true love" storylines aren't dragged out. Because after a while, you realize they'd just ( ... )
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(although I disagree slightly over her not liking someone who does better than her- After all she never shown to have any issues with Harry definitely being Better than her in DADA, and even says that Harry IS better than her in it. )
one other thing- The scars on Marietta weren' 'permanent'. JKR said in an interview that they would fade over time.
(people think so because Hermione cursed Marrietta in 5th year and she still had the scars in 6th year they think = permanent.
but I calculated that Hermione cursed marietta around april/may 1996- and then harry sees her september 1996- so that's only 6 months)
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