The PBS HP show (Was: "Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter")

[Laurin]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., UcfRentLuvr at c... wrote:
  > 
> They also made a few comparisions between HP and King Arthur. For 
> shippers, there was a teaser about Harry, Ron and Hermione 
> mirroring Arthur, Lancelot and Guinivere.>>
> 
> Someone else mentioned this as well and it just made me giggle 
> when they compared Harry to Arthur and Ron to Lancelot instead of 
> the other way around as we TiP fans have come to know it. I wonder 
> how many R/Hers rejoiced at that. ;)

But this is the comparison that makes *sense*!  (I never read TiP; 
since I feel this way, I get the impression that I shouldn't even 
try.)  Ron's not a king, not even *close*.  Harry is the one we see 
as royalty.  And remember the sword of Godric Gryffindor coming to 
him in the sorting hat?  Can we say Excalibur everyone?  And Arthur 
didn't know his background, and Merlin told him, just like Harry 
didn't know about his background.  Ron's not a bit like Arthur. I'm 
not convinced he makes a very good Lancelot either, but he's a damn 
sight closer to him than to King Arthur.

I can think of myths or folktales that work with HP a lot better 
than the Arthurian legends, but I don't see why this one can't make 
both H/H shippers and H/R shippers happy.  At one point she's with 
each of them, and at the end Harry would be pining after her, 
wouldn't he?  (And maybe she's pining after him too, and regretful 
that her indiscretion has disgraced her and made it impossible for 
her to stay with him.)  More of a tragic ending than I think JKR is 
going for, but it works a lot better than the TiP scenario, IMNSHO.

~Laurin~