Hermione's age (again); Shipping; GOF Movie (x2)

[jonathandupont at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 28104


A few quick things:-
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce <pennylin at s...> wrote:
> Hi --
H birthdays!
> 
> No, the interview response from JKR says this:
> 
> "In Hogwarts there's a magical quill which detects the birth of a 
> magical child, and writes his or her name down in a large parchment 
> book. Every year Professor McGonagall checks the book, and sends 
owls to 
> the people who are turning 11."
> 
> [JKR Chat -- Scholastic -- Feb 2000]
> 
> People *who are turning* 11!  There's no mention of *after* age 11. 
> This could mean that anyone who will turn 11 during the calendar 
year 
> receives a Hogwarts letter to begin at the beginning of the fall 
term on 
> Sept 1st, even if they don't turn 11 until December 31st.
> 
> Penny

Or the opposite obviously. The problem with JKR's answer is we have 
no idea what McGonagall is checking for or when they're turning 11. 
Its rather neutral - what is interesting is that JKR actually 
volunteers this information without being asked, which means she's at 
least thought about it.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tandy, Heidi" <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> 
wrote:
> I have often been accused of being a SHIPper, but I'm really more a
> canon-no-shipper, and it's because I think they're going to have 
more
> important things to worry about than romance... (yes, I am of the 
Hermione Is
> Younger Than Harry group. So?)

(On an interesting note is there any connection between preffered 
ship and prefered age? It's probably just a coincidence, but after 
reading Heidi, Penny and Ebony's posts I couldn't help wondering.)

In the interview that was just pointed out there is of course the 
interesting quote:-

"Is Harry Potter ever going to fall in love with Hermione or is he 
going to fall in love with Ginny Weasley?  
 In Book IV Harry does decide he likes a girl, but it's not Hermione 
or Ginny. However, he's only 14, so there's plenty of time for him to 
change his mind. ;-)"

I know she's just joking, but at least suggests future possibilities, 
surely? Similarly JKR emphasised quite a lot the "wrong people" thing 
in Book 4. Which leads one to wonder about the right people - which 
starts to make me agree that it probably isn't appropriate for the 
rest of the series. I don't know, maybe a humour R/H sideplot would 
be alright. I agree that I don't see her just leaving the thing 
hanging.

As for the movie - I have to say that I think it would be rather 
slack to split it into 2 - although it does suggest that they're 
trying to preserve as much as possible, which is nice. Still, I'm 
sure if they put their minds to it they can get it in under 3 hours - 
it just has nowhere to naturally split into 2.

Jon

Who also noticed the following quote:-

"I heard a lot of rumors as to why the fourth book isn't out yet in 
the U.S. What is the truth and when will it be out?  
 The reason it's not out yet is because I haven't finished it. :-) 
The first book took me five years to write, so I'm speeding up, a 
lot! But I still can't produce a novel in six months. "

and wished she'd kept to pattern.