[HPforGrownups] SHIP: couples 'lasting' in the HP world...

[Carole Estes]

No: HPFGUIDX 13835


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelley" <SKTHOMPSON_1 at msn.com>



> 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.

Again I ask, why?  Because that's the way we want it?   Even if JKR ended it
H/H I wouldn't presume to *know* definitvely what happens post book #7.
There's just no way.

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.

Yeah, but how many wizarding couple have we met for goodness sake?  Malfoys,
Weasleys, ummmmm....and how many are there in the wizarding world?  Come on
use your imagination.  Why wouldn't there be romantic break ups and
divorces?  Not everyone has the *inner eye* as Trelawney likes to say.

to quote JKR:  .  "Let no one say my books lack realism."

>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.

Why limit her or the story like that?

> 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.

And why would having matters of the heart complicate various plots about
good vs evil diminish the integrity of the story?  Has she done that yet?
Can't we trust her to surprise us?

>
> I've written enough for now, and if my thoughts are unclear, which
> would be likely, let me know.  I'll try again.

Maybe I'm just misinterpreting and I do not intend to sound at all snippy.
I'm just honestly curious.

carole