SHIP: RE: couples 'lasting' in the HP world...

[firoza10 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 13813

My original 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>.

Kelley wrote:
Here's me:
Actually, I can see JKR have some of the characters in relationships 
in books 5 and 6, and not necessarily keeping them together 'til the 
end of 7 and beyond.  Death would seem to be the most likely cause of 
a relationship ending, but yes, there are other ways this can happen, 
too.  What I would expect, however, is that -whomever- she puts 
together as a couple by the end of 7, will stay together.  Divorce 
hasn't been introduced in the series yet, and the only abandonment 
we've seen is Vold's father and Hagrid's mother.  Since we haven't 
met her yet, who can say what she'll be like.  Other married couples 
seem to have been together for quite some time, with no impending 
signs of a breakup.  So, to me, if JKR really doesn't want to return 
to HP, I would think that the couples, if any, at the end, will be 
intended to give us the impression that their relationships/marriages 
will be lasting.  I'll also say that since GoF is the pivotal book in 
the series, and that so far she has been dealing with the romantic 
subplots very gradually, it doesn't look as though she's planning to 
do something different later on.  I know about JKR pulling the rug 
out and all that, but this usually seems to happen within the main 
storyline of a single book, e.g. the 'bad guy' isn't who we all 
expected it to be, etc.  It seems if JKR tries to do this with 
romantic couples, while that might be fun for her to write, it might 
seem too out-of-the-blue and unsatisfying to the story as a whole.  
IOW, if she's been leading us one way through half the series now, 
and maybe even more once we get 5, then to suddenly change the 
couples around might diminish the story's integrity.


Yup, that is what I basically meant when I said that I see R/H and 
H/G staying together in the long term :-) 

Firoza :-)