Rowling is *most definitely* a Harry/Hermione shipper!
Well, the transcript of the full interview is out; my thanks to shantari and avidbeader for the link:
I'll put my discussion underneath the cut, but you would have caught the primary gist of it from my subject heading ...
( It was like I was reading a post in a H/Hr community ... )
I'll put my discussion underneath the cut, but you would have caught the primary gist of it from my subject heading ...
( It was like I was reading a post in a H/Hr community ... )
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Annoying, to me, is that JKR still persists with the idea that Ron's supposed sense of humour is necessary to Hermione's happiness when in the books he was so often the source of her unhappiness*. How many times did he actually make her laugh, canonically?
*I added it up once and in 5 books out of 7 Hermione breaks down in tears at least once as a direct consequence of something Ron did.
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I disagree as to the 'plenty' - I see it more as a few cracks and crevices for those desperate enough to cling - but yes, Rowling threw out a few crumbs at the end. Clearly an afterthought to mollify the faithful she was betraying with her 'heresy'. More than she did for the H/Hr crowd back in the Interview o' Doom when 'deluded' was coined.
... when in the books he was so often the source of her unhappiness.
I'll have to remember your words of wisdom if I come across a desperate canon-thumper who scrabbles at the 'humour' tidbit as a life raft.
Would you know why your comment was screened? I have no idea.
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Are you counting Ron's insult at Halloween of first year, precursor of the Troll incident; i.e. prior to the formation of the Trio?
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I haven't read the interview yet, but I wanted to say that "clinging to the plot as I first imagined it" was a really bad decision, IMO. It clinches my belief that JKR had to work hard to shoehorn the characters into the plot, rather than letting them go where their character development took them. Hermione's character made her stay with and choose Harry IN EVERY INSTANCE, even to the point where she offered to go with him to his (probable) death (or is that just in the movie? Because I've read DH only once). It's always been impossible for me to believe that a young woman would make the sacrifices that Hermione made for someone she loved only as a best friend. BTW I don't know if you're a friend of ladyaeryn but the Watson/Rowling interview inspired her to write a lovely H/Hr piece (post-final battle) that you can find here. It's the first piece of fanfic (H/Hr or other) I've read in a long time and I hope we see more stuff like it.
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So this interview was big enough to bring you back fully into the fandom? Like many of us. :-)
It clinches my belief that JKR had to work hard to shoehorn the characters into the plot, rather than letting them go where their character development took them.
I know, we were saying that years ago, right? And certainly ever since Rowling's interview admission that she let Hermione 'run away from her'. Um, that was after the publication of ... book 5?
even to the point where she offered to go with him to his (probable) death (or is that just in the movie? Because I've read DH only once).That was only in the movie. It was a line that I thought could support the weight of a thousand H/Hr stories. :-) Brilliant line ( ... )
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