SHIP: romance and casting ?cary elwes?

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 12225

In today's Salon mangazine, a romance expert analyses various 
literary romances from A Tale of 2 Cities, Jane Eyre, Wuthuring 
Heights, Anna Karinena, etc. The bit that I thought some of the more 
intense shippers here might go to town on (a ferry?) is this:
"I write in "Intimate Partners" about caretakers and wounded birds, 
which is a very common type of relationship. At the beginning 
of "Jane Eyre," he's definitely the caretaker, he's given her the 
job, and as is the case with parents, she can't quite understand the 
mystery of him, just as we all can't understand the mystery of these 
distant figures who have all the goodies. Then in the end there's 
almost a generational reversal, but certainly a power reversal. They 
never work out what I'd consider an ideal relationship, which is to 
say that sometimes she's in the driver's seat and sometimes he's in 
the driver's seat. That's when relationships work the best."

I'm certainly not saying definitively that Harry is likely to be 
the "wounded bird" in a relationship (personally, I'm of half a mind 
that Ron (and to some extent, Draco, at least as I see him) have 
those characteristics) but I did like her description of an Ideal 
Relationship - and to pull in some "future" fanfics as examples, in 
PoU, Harry and Hermione are both inthe driver's seat at certain 
times, in ASA, at this point in the story, Sirius and Cordelia share 
the seat as well. 
However, if you take Hermione's word as truth, in Trouble in 
Paradise, she definitely feels that she is not in the driver's seat - 
that Ron is pretty much in control of what they, as a couple, do, 
where they, as a couple, go, and what they, as a couple, do with 
their galleons. 
And I'm now wondering, through the prism of all this great 
literature, whether JKR will, if she does anything shippy in the 
books among the major characters, on a long term basis, anyway, 
reflect this real Relationship Dynamic issue.

BTW - the interview ends with the following: 
Interviewer: So what you're saying is that the most challenging part 
of love, the part where people hash out the business of actually 
living together for the rest of their lives, isn't really the stuff 
of a great novel. 

Maggie Scarf: No, I think it's the stuff of a great biography. 

As we were saying just the other day, the "what are they going to 
talk about in 6 years" really isn't the makings of a novel, or even a 
fanfic. And on some days it might be really mundane, all about the 
kids and the jobs and the cars - but other times, it's the movies, 
the books, the email lists : ) -and sometimes (hopefully at least 
once a day) it's the Grande Passion...


Now, on to the casting:
All my favorite Lockhart possibilities have dark hair and would look 
ridiculous with light hair - Hugh Grant, Rupert Everett, john Lynch 
(from Sliding Doors) and the little voice in the back of my mind that 
keeps saying Geoffry Rush (yeah, he's australian. So?). Julian Sands 
has the look, but not the precise level of humerous smarminess. 
So the one and only option is the "if I had a time machine and could 
bring him from the set of Lady Jane into the present, he'd make a 
great Draco Malfoy in Cassandra Claire's series"...Cary Elwes. The 
Dread Pirate Robert himself!