SHIP: H/H Mission Statement - FF: DS - Sport

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 13886

Penny wrote:

>Not only that, but we've been accused of being "too vocal," "overly
>vehement," and "intimidating."  

*Sigh*  Not by me.  The people accusing H/Hers of being too vocal 
aren't necessarily the same people who are asking for more specifics. 
 I know we all blur together here online; I'm the one with the red 
hair, the neverending supply of sigs, and the "I Brake for Werewolves" 
bumper sticker.

>How can we be all those things and still
>unclear about our position(s)? 

Well, it IS possible to be overly vocal, vehement and intimidating 
without ever actually making the merits of one's point clear. 
<g> However, I haven't noticed you doing that, Penny--you or any other 
H/Hers that spring to mind.

>That is: Harry has
>everything (fame, wealth) so Ron should "get the girl."

Urgh.  I refuse to be tarred with this one.  MY argument is that once 
reason I DON'T like H/H is that I DON'T want to see "the hero gets the 
girl."  I wouldn't turn it around to say the above at all.  Nor does 
it have to do with Harry's fame and wealth; I'd rather be Ron than 
Harry any day.  For me, it's an objection to a cliche; Harry's the one 
we spend all our time with as readers, so naturally if there's an 
interesting girl around he has to end up with her . . . that's what I 
don't want to see.  (I was SO happy when Cho turned him down, not 
because I don't want to see that romance happen but because I wanted a 
monkey wrench thrown into Harry's plans...again, it's not that Harry 
has it so good, but that as Hagrid says, everything happens to him.  
The non-date was a nice change from that.)

Having said all that, I will once again repeat my litany (with rosary, 
on knees) that Our Goddess Jo will manage to avoid cliches even if 
Harry and Hermione jump onto a white horse and ride into the sunset.  
Anything CAN turn into a cliche (HGTG, OBHWF, even 
funny-#2-character-gets-the-girl due to all those bantering couples 
movies).  Jo won't let it, will you, Jo?

I like the Ron-unwittingly-betrays-Harry plotline too.  It would be 
very exciting. 

And I don't think that the way the characters are at the end of canon 
is the way they're going to stay, pairings-wise or otherwise.  The 
books end where they end; closure doesn't require that we know the 
rest of their life story.  And they'll only be 18!!

Cassie wrote:

>Everyone on PoU's all wound about the "R/H trend" in 
>DS, and we all know how I feel about R/H.

???  POUers think DS is too R/H?  Are they just all totally paranoid 
H/Hers, or what?  (Don't answer that.)  Come on, Hermione and Harry 
belong to each other, heart and soul...I'll eat my broomstick if DS 
goes otherwise (slipping a fifty to Cassie).

Scott wrote:

>Do you think that the kids ever play a good
>ol' game of Rugby?

I doubt Quidditch is the only sport; it's a compression thing 
again; JKR can only tell us so much about the wizarding world so she 
picks some key examples.  But I do buy the idea that it's THE sport, 
the way in many places soccer or basketball or whatever is the great 
passion and other sports get much less attention.

Since so much in the wizarding world has a real sense of antiquity 
about it, modern sports like baseball and basketball haven't caught on 
or been adapted into magic-enhanced forms.  I don't know how long 
rugby's been around.  But things like racing seem more likely, since 
they're so ancient.  And martial arts, sadly.

Amy Z
who'd be happy to accompany Dean to a plain old, boring West Ham 
United match--or come on over and watch the Revolution with us, Dean!

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