[HPforGrownups] SHIP: not so long response (was Long Post Re: R/H Yule Ball and JKR)

[Carole Estes]

No: HPFGUIDX 13777


----- Original Message -----
From: <firoza10 at yahoo.com>

I'm leaving most of this post alone in that the R/H'ers and the H/H'ers
obviously disagree in the interpretation of various passages of the books
and interviews.  My one commmnet is that H/H is not just wishful thinking on
our part any more than R/H is wishful thinking on your part.  JKR could go
either or no way on this issue.

I do however take issue with this statement:

you wrote:

 R/H is the way JKR is headed IMO, and since none of us REALLY
believe that the canon HP is a soap opera (as much as we enjoy HP
fanfics of this genre ;-)), it serves no purpose for JKR to build up
R/H and then switch to H/H post-Hogwarts, as some H/H fans believe
will happen.

My comment:

Why not? There are loads of reasons why she might do R/H and then tear them
assunder...come on use your imagination and think of the great dramatic and
not necessarily soapish dramatic potential there.  Including but not limited
to exploring feelings of loss and betrayal and individuals deciding to do
what is good for them vs. what is good for the wizard community as a whole.
We can't possibly know what JKR has up her sleeve as far as relationships
and their repercussions.   I see no reason for your confidence that while
OBHWF (one big happy weasley family) might happen, why it necessarily will
be preserved.

Your comment:
Teenagers in real life may not form attachments as
teenagers that last into adulthood, but HP is NOT the real world, so
R/H lasting into adulthood is a real possibility <g>. But despair not
H/H fans, there are always fanfics :-)!

my comment:
Yes it is a possibility but so is H/H. And I'd say the chances of either or
neither are equal.

you comment:
Nor do we think that R/H or H/G when they eventually
DO get together will break up and not last. That is not in keeping
with the tone of the HP books, however 'unrealistic' that may be and
despite all the fanfics out there <vbg>.


My comment:
Again Why not? Could you predict the tone of GoF from the previous books.
There are still 3 massive books out there to be written.  I think you give
wayb too little credit to JKR's imagination.  No, romance is not the prime
theme of these books, but I think it will play a role if even a rather minor
one.  But since there is just the beginnings of evidence for these
relationships to happen at all, how can you predict that once these
relationships (that you are so sure of) form they will last forever?



carole