One Big, Happy Weasley Family

[cassandraclaire at mail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 10924

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., moongirlk at y... wrote:
> Cassie,
> 
> The opposition to the happy family idea intrigues me, so I'm going 
to 
> just let loose (now that I've rereleased my shippy, emotional side) 
> and rant and ask all the questions I've been wondering about, and 
I've 
> chosen to do so in response to your post, but please, don't take 
this  as an attack or anything, I just really honestly don't 
understand the  opposition, and I really want to see where this is 
going.  So here  goes...(snip)If there were
 an option for me in my life to get the happy family scenario, I
> certainly wouldn't pass it up to avoid being cliche. Would you?"

Er, no. But this is real life, and the HP books are fiction. I do not 
want to see JKR streching her plot in unrealistic ways in order to 
hand her hero a happy scenario. Also, I completely agree with Carole 
in that Harry does not have to marry into the Weasleys to be part of 
their family. Mr and Mrs. Weasley already love him and he already is 
part of the family. 
> 
> Are you saying that if there is some incarnation of the happy 
family 
> theory in the end, you will think less of JKR and no longer 
> respect her work?  I really do want to know - would it affect you 
that 
> way?
> 
> Kimberly,
> who doesn't mind cliches if they allow her heros to be happy

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Well, there you go. I do mind cliches, even if they allow my hero to 
be happy. Like Carole said, it's perfectly possible to have your hero 
be happy in an ending that isn't a cliche, and wouldn't that be much 
better?

The opposition to the "Happy Family" idea is pretty much precisely 
what Penny and Carole have already leaped into the fray and stated -- 
that it would be an overly simplistic, and disingenuous-feeling 
conclusion. Everybody Gets A Weasley. I could cope with R/H, or H/G, 
but I find the concept of ending the series with the two couples  
simply too insipid-- or, as Kathy put it, cheesy. I have a romantic 
streak, and to an extent I like sap, but that would be too much for 
me.

I love Harry. I want Harry to be happy. But I don't want an ending to 
my favorite series that's going to strike me as maudlin and 
insincere. I have faith in JKR though, which is why I partially agree 
with Kathy's post earlier in which she stated that though appealing, 
the OBHWF theory is unlikely to happen in canon. ("Too tidy.")So I am 
not worried.

It's got nothing to do with being an H/H shipper, either. I am really 
quite an unfervent H/H shipper; I'd rather see Hermione with Draco 
(waits patiently while everyone screams) or someone we don't know, 
but I recognize that H/D is very unlikely in canon, so I'll take H/H 
as the lesser of two evils. <g> The OBHWF theory bugs me in a whole 
different way.

Cassie