Comments | jlh: No biscuit.

jlh

No biscuit.

Oct 20, 2007 00:30

Okay, JKR, your little victory tour where you're telling us all this stuff that you kinda forgot or was kinda too much of a wimp or whatever to put in the books? Like how Harry and Ginny were soulmates when they had, what, all of four conversations on the page? Or that no, the trio really do, erm, triple-handedly change the entire structure of ( Read more... )

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sistermagpie October 20 2007, 04:55:13 UTC

Yeah, and somehow surrounded by all the almost OTT traditional romance it's like...it just didn't occur to you to tell us that? Or pair him up with somebody the way everybody else she can think of does?

jlh October 20 2007, 05:10:38 UTC

I mean, I'm totally guilty of wanting to pair everyone up at the end of my stories, and I'll admit that. But sheesh, like, one normalized gay pairing plz, not just the old lonely guy.

I just, these interviews? Just remind me how disappointed I was in the series, and how much I can't trust any one writing book or TV series anymore. My heart is BROKEN, I tell you. BRO-KEN.

sistermagpie October 20 2007, 05:23:53 UTC

I know--and now I keep realizing it's not going to stop because at every one of the stops on this book tour there's going to be more of these things. Seamus married one of the 2 girls in Gryffindor we don't know--she was Irish too! Angelina married Lee Jordan! Dean married Padma! Stop fancying Draco! (Apparently this is still a problem. Fancying Draco is beginning to seem like some low-level rebellion, like Draco wearing Muggle clothes in fanfic.)

I take comfort in Madam Maxime escaping being married to Hagrid, even if that seems to be held against her.

sisterpandora October 20 2007, 17:58:47 UTC

Seamus married one of the 2 girls in Gryffindor we don't know--she was Irish too! Angelina married Lee Jordan! Dean married Padma!

What? What?! No! Just, no. She's totally cheating!

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conob October 20 2007, 06:27:48 UTC

Word, indeed.

lessthangreat October 20 2007, 06:47:56 UTC

I completely agree with this post. Every single thing. Half of what she's said in interviews before have contradicted actual things she'd written in the books. This whole thing is BS. *rolls eyes*

lake_effected October 20 2007, 12:22:53 UTC

thank you for being so articulate! I've just been angry. I agree. Tokenism, and potentially more homophobic than the complete erasure of queer folks from the books. One unrequited crush as a teen? I think not.

tarie October 20 2007, 12:39:40 UTC

I completely agree. I'm so annoyed right now.

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