[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Definition of a "good movie" for me & Problems with "Ship"ping

[clshannon at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/24/04 9:08:27 AM, draco382 at yahoo.com writes:


> The movie has
> become terribly coy and suggestive (and blatant) about Ron and
> Hermione "ending up together" and even in interviews, the cast now
> openly says that there is something going on with Ron and Hermione. 
> Wow -- that's quite an assumption to make!  Now, I'm personally not
> shipping in one direction or another, but it surprises me that such
> a strong opinion about this would be expressed -- especially when
> JKR has a penchant for throwing her audience WAAAAY off guard at the
> last minute.  I am under the impression that the movie makers really
> don't "get" JKR and for that matter, Harry Potter at all. 
> 

Well, I can think of two reasons the movies are leaning towards Ron and 
Hermione 'dating' as it were. One, JKR said herself in an interview with Katie 
Couric that Ron and Hermione had that 'tension'.
It was during that Dateline interview with JKR in June of last year and 
Couric said something about Harry being a teenager now and having to endure spots, 
etc., and perhaps, 'snogging Hermione?' JKR replied with no small amount of 
surprise in her voice, 'Harry and Hermione?! You think so? I think Ron and 
Hermione, there's more tension there.'

Secondly, she and Steve Kloves have both said in interviews that she is 
consulted about certain things in the script - but only to the extent that she can 
veto something   if it will contradict something in the last two   books. 
Personally, I don't think the whole dating issue is going to be a big deal in 
the books, they are teenagers after all ;-) As someone else said, those 
relationships are rarely longstanding, so I think the last two books will have 
enough going on with the main plot (which is Harry's story and his battle with 
Voldemort, etc.), that the whole 'pairing up' issue will be minor, if there at 
all.
Anyway, those two reasons are why folks have been talking about Ron and 
Hermione and why the movies are leaning that way; Rowling herself has indicated 
that particular pairing, so the movies are not being presumptive or 'wrong'.
And I think the movie makers do 'get' JKR since she is at least consulted on 
the scripts to an extent.
Cindy


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