SHIP: Re: Little Women

[cassandraclaire at mail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 12662

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Kathleen Kelly MacMillan <kathleen at c...> 
wrote:
> Trina wrote:
> >and Beth, whom I actually liked (other than obvious Jo) dies!  
*This*
> >is a classic?  I will admit to reading Little Men out of sheer
> >curiosity, but haven't touched any other LMA since!
> 
> I never actually finished reading it because I was so distraught 
once I 
> figured out that Beth was dead (LMA used so many eupherisms it took 
me 2 
> chapters--hey, I was 10, give me a break).  The only HP connection 
I can make 
> to this is that this is what will probably happen if Ron dies--I 
won't be able 
> to continue reading.  *shudders at the thought*
> 
> Kathy
> AKA Elanor Gamgee

I actually didn't mean when I posted about Little Women that *any* of 
the relationships contained therin particularly reminded me of any of 
the HP characters or their relationships. I think it was in response 
to someone who posted that they were R/H because "that's where the 
canon is going." I respect that, but I don't see it *for me* as a 
reason to be R/H (and would debate whether that's where the canon is 
going anyway, but that's a separate point.) Taking Little Women 
as "canon", that canon was *clearly* not Jo/Laurie, but Laurie/Amy, 
and Jo/Professor. Yet generations of girls, like me, have grown up 
revolted and furious by the L/A and J/P matchups, and miserable that 
Jo and Laurie didn't get together. So it's perfectly possible to 
disagree with an author's decision about their own characters' 
romantic future. In fact, it's a proud tradition. <g> (This I'm sure 
would apply equally to R/H ers if R and H don't get together in 
canon.)

Also, I must be a terrible person. I was unmoved by Beth's death and 
would happily continue reading JKR if Ron died. Ack!

Cassie