JKR Chats & Such (Was Occams Razor)

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 4234

Hi:

Wasn't sure what "Occams Razor" referred to so I changed the subject
line.

Joywitch wrote:

> One thing I have learned from the recent round of JKR chats is that
> we (me, anyway) have made some of the mysteries far more complex than
> they are.  It turns out, for all my rationalizing to the contrary,
> that the Marauders (probably) and Lily and Hagrid were all in
> Gryffindor.

Well, she did seem to give the impression that you'd be crazy to think
that any of the "good guys" were in any House other than Hogwarts.  But,
I'm firmly convinced that *all* the chats & interviews this week were
very much directed at the young kids.  So, I don't think she *chose* to
answer anything that was all that complex.  Or, she made the things that
she did answer seem "obvious."  But, I think that the intended audience
of the chats probably drove this result.

> And I swore I would never get into one of those #($*&  shipper
> discussions, but: JKR pretty much said in todays chat that Ron and
> Hermione will become a couple.  She has CLEARLY hinted at it since
> the first book, too.  SOMETIMES THE SIMPLEST EXPLANATION IS THE ONE
> THAT MAKES THE MOST SENSE!!!!!!!!!

And sometimes JKR makes something look very obvious & then turns around
& does exactly the opposite too.  <g>  Sometimes the simplest
explanation turns out to be the WRONG explanation!

> These are not romances, the books  will end when they are all only 17
> years old, and I doubt there will  be any time for complicated
> romantic pairing and unpairing and all  the related angst (thank
> goodness). So stop with the Hermione and Harry shipping, already.
> (Like this is really going to stop it. Sigh. <g>)

Uh, no, it won't stop it because it's one of your list-mom's favorite
topics.  And, she's 100% Harry & Hermione shipper.  So sorry if this
offends you.  Delete the shippy ones if you don't want to read them.
But, I consider the debates ON-topic.  I do agree that the books will
end before their ultimate love-lives get resolved.  This makes it nice
-- I'll just imagine that it all happens just like in PoU.  :--)

Use your delete keys folks -- (I'll concede that the *endless* posts
about Snape really don't hold much interest for me; I delete most of
them now).  But, I'd never declare Snape & all his various complexities
to be off-topic.

> And there is also, clearly, stuff that JKR is just not paying
> attention to - since many parts of the books (the size of the common
> rooms, the number of earmuffs, brooms, cauldrons, carriages, tables
> at the dance, etc.) are not consistent with there being 1000 Hogwarts
> students.  I think we will just have to learn to live with these
> little inconsistencies.  Or the big ones.

What else are we going to talk about for 2 yrs if not inconsistencies?
<vbg>

Penny




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