The Kiss

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 7839

Jim,

Thanks for the advice and comments!  I'm trying to stay out of the 
fanfic for now (both reading and writing), but it's getting harder and 
harder.  I don't have the guts to try to tinker with JK's wonderful 
work at this point, although if she kills off or turns bad any of my 
beloved favorites, I'll have to write myself alternate endings just so 
I can sleep at night.  I don't know if I could cope.  But thanks for 
the encouragement all the same.  I hope in the end we all get what we 
want, which at least on my part is simply for everyone to end up as 
close to happy ever after as possible.
kimberly,
who still holds out hope for happy ever after in real life too.


--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> 
> Kimberly: "However if it is Ron and Hermione and Harry and Ginny, 
> everyone's happy.  Harry gets not only a girl who adores him (and 
I'm 
> hoping for some proof in the future that she's worthy of him as 
well, 
> since she's not very fleshed-out yet), he also gets the family he's 
> always lacked, and who have specifically shown him the only familial 
> love he's ever had."
> 
> My feelings exactly about Ginny and Harry; she's likely to be as 
loyal 
> and loving as her mother is, and Harry's going to need it. I hope 
Ron 
> and Hermione are happy, but I can't see them together, even though 
JKR 
> is hitting us over the head with it. Read Ebony Elizabeth's 
excellent 
> fic, which is taking a look at R/H gone sour. I think marrying into 
> the loving Weasley family would be very good for Harry.
> 
> Kimberley:"If Harry and Hermione were to end up together, Ron would 
be 
> on the outside of the threesome and it would ruin the great balance 
of 
> the friendships the three of them have.  With Ron and Hermione 
> together, there would not be this lopsidedness, if only because 
Harry 
> is the protagonist, and thus not likely to be marginalized.  Plus 
> Harry and Hermione together, as a muggle-born and a muggle-raised, 
> would be on the fringes of the wizarding world in regards to culture 
> and tradition."
> 
> An additional point I hadn't thought of. There must be a schism in 
> wizarding society that leads to a lot of misunderstanding: some 
> wizards, like the Weasleys, are completely lost in the Muggle world, 
> while others, like Harry and Hermione, can move in both.  This could 
> create real problems in wizard society, and in marriage too.
> 
> Kimberley:"I'm hoping that if this isn't the way it goes, that 
nobody 
> will be paired up when the series ends."
> 
> Me too, but don't be surprised if Harry isn't paired up. He's likely 
> to be the Hero, the "man alone", so taken up by his quest and his 
> ordeal he hasn't got anything left for another person.  In other 
> words, like Frodo. I hope not for his sake.
> 
> Don't just dream, write. We all like new fic by people with ideas.