OMG, you are the only person I've seen who has been fretting about this, too!
Will.
"When WIll became the next man..." god, I was so stressed that Ron would be disposed of, like that, with Hermione mentioning how he died over the summer, before book seven. OK, not quite, but I have never trusted a writer since reading that line. Will was my Ron in that series. He was so brave and ridiculous to damage his leg. They worked so hard to be together. In a new class free world.
Mark.
I read them well pre-telly (which I loathed, and don't get me started on Will and Christina sitting side-by-side in that aeroplane), and was baffled by Divided.
I wasn't thrilled by Will's death, but I always assumed that it was because her ultimate plan was to be subversive by having Christina marry Dick, the former groom, rather than her "well-bred" cousin Mark. And it was all fine at the end of the trilogy. I don't know what possessed her to write the fourth book! Some conservative attack, I guess. Just strange.
Oh, I'd forgotten how betrayed I felt by the fourth Flambards book. I read these in the seventies and was really intrigued by the first few but utterly devastated by the last. I don't know if she had a conservative, class-bound turn or what, at the end, there, but it was crushing to the read. I hadn't thought that maybe it was some sort of ACD-ish lashout at the fans or the televised series, but those are also possible.
In any case, Flambards is part of the reason why I embrace the prospects of fic, to be honest, because creators seem to take nasty turns with their material, almost as if they're trying to deliberately shaft certain fans or what have you. Authors are great, don't get me wrong, but I'm not all that impressed by following their dictates when they do disappointing things.
I'm right there with you. And honestly, if she wanted a lot of her fans to STOP clamoring for more, the threat of Harry/Hermione is a great way to accomplish it, from what I've seen folks saying! So I'll just have to wait and see what the context for all of this is, even though she's unlikely to divulge whether her childhood friend Sean (the basis for Ron's character) has deeply upset her in some way. What a strange development all around.
I have to wonder just how much information she already has in her head on next gen stuff. If it's a lot, I'd think that would make it too complicated and messy to ret-con the ships from this generation. She is on record after all as indicating that Albus Severus has most captured her imagination (or some such wording).
I'll be very surprised if she says in this interview that she's retconning a lot of things. If she's simply reconsidering her opinion of certain things, that really has no impact on what she's already done.
What I don't see, though, is a justification (other than revenge) for anyone calling R/Hr shippers "delusional". The reason for that word being used by Emerson in the first place was the idea that H/Hr was coming in the story, that there were so many "signs", yadda yadda yadda. It never happened, and was never going to because that wasn't her plan. So R/Hr shippers are certainly not delusional for recognizing what the author was doing. That's an issue quite apart from her current opinion of what she wrote, whatever that opinion might be. People with different opinions about how well certain couples would work simply have different opinions, period. No one is "right" and no one is "delusional". Different opinions are just different opinions.
I'm wondering if she isn't already retconning over at Pottermore. I haven't been on that site but from what I've heard she's put a lot of backstory up that NEVER appeared in any of the 7 books.
Possibly. Like I said, I haven't been over to Pottermore. It just didn't appeal to me much for some reason. I suspect JKR had reams of stuff that never hit the books because her world building was just that good. I didn't for the most part give a toss about the shipping, here. They just were not the focus of the story to me; that was all about surviving Voldie and his minions really. Ships were just distractions, even if they were in the worst part of the teenage years.
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Will.
"When WIll became the next man..." god, I was so stressed that Ron would be disposed of, like that, with Hermione mentioning how he died over the summer, before book seven. OK, not quite, but I have never trusted a writer since reading that line. Will was my Ron in that series. He was so brave and ridiculous to damage his leg. They worked so hard to be together. In a new class free world.
Mark.
I read them well pre-telly (which I loathed, and don't get me started on Will and Christina sitting side-by-side in that aeroplane), and was baffled by Divided.
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In any case, Flambards is part of the reason why I embrace the prospects of fic, to be honest, because creators seem to take nasty turns with their material, almost as if they're trying to deliberately shaft certain fans or what have you. Authors are great, don't get me wrong, but I'm not all that impressed by following their dictates when they do disappointing things.
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What I don't see, though, is a justification (other than revenge) for anyone calling R/Hr shippers "delusional". The reason for that word being used by Emerson in the first place was the idea that H/Hr was coming in the story, that there were so many "signs", yadda yadda yadda. It never happened, and was never going to because that wasn't her plan. So R/Hr shippers are certainly not delusional for recognizing what the author was doing. That's an issue quite apart from her current opinion of what she wrote, whatever that opinion might be. People with different opinions about how well certain couples would work simply have different opinions, period. No one is "right" and no one is "delusional". Different opinions are just different opinions.
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