[HPforGrownups] Twins, HARD SHIPWRECK, and Marriage

[Rohit Puskoor]

No: HPFGUIDX 37544

Great posts y'all.  And I really appreciated your
replies to my questions about marriage in Rowling's
universe.  Though, I'm gonna have to respectfully
disagree on the notion that early marriage is not the
norm--it may not be "the norm," but judging from the
two most prominent examples we have of married
wizarding couples (the Potters and the Weasleys),
people do tend to meet their life partners while at
Hogwarts (I believe it's in the 4th book that Molly is
telling the kids how she and Arthur were caught by the
old groundskeeper while on a midnight stroll way back
when)

I don't think Fred is uncaring or selfish; in fact, of
the two twins, I think he's the one who displays more
unselfish concern for others (not that George isn't
equally kind, but Fred seems the more paternal of the
two).  For example, in CoS, he scolds Oliver for
telling Harry to catch the snitch or die trying when
Harry ends up in the hospital wing.   And in PoA, he
comforts Harry and tells him that there had to be a
time he didn't catch the snitch after the Gryffindor
vs. Hufflepuff match.  (On a side not, I thought it
was really funny on rereading that in the Gryffindor
VS. Slytherin match, when Angelina got pelted HARD by
the Slytherin beater's club, Fred was the one who
exacted revenge--so badly that he got a foul for it :P
 Did we ever find out whom George took to the ball? 
it'd just be really funny if he took Alicia, since he
does something similar "for her.")

Oh, Grey Wolf, did ya' have to verbalize something
I've been thinking about for a while now, with HARD
SHIPWRECK (imo, not a bad acronym at all!).  As i said
before, there's a whole variety of potentially great
endings that Rowling can choose to end this series,
and it's a shame she can only pick one, and this one
would be terribly devastating.  Imagine us being sad
for Ron after he dies but somewhat relieved that at
least Hermione and Harry are safe, and then getting
blindsided by Harry's death later on in book 7!?!  And
then Hermione can be like Elizabeth at the end of
Lagaan (Indian movie) and live alone for the rest of
her life...  or maybe she'll die too, just to make us
entirely depressed.  Though part of me thinks the
likelihood of Rowling killing off the hero is even
lower than that of her killing off Hermione, just 
because it'd be a horrible, horrible thing to do and
not a very inspirational way to end the series--she
seems to only have started replying to the questions
of whether she's going to write books about Harry's
later years with a retort that the readers are very
certain Harry's going to survive beyond the series. 
Before she'd just say she probably wasn't, which makes
me think it's just her witty British way of shutting
people up who keep asking her the annoying question
she's already answered a million times, and scaring
the readers a little.  

Ron as little shoulder devil, Hermione as a little
shoulder angel... not ENTIRELY accurate, but it gave
me a very funny image nonetheless. :P

Rohit (columbiatexan)

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"That is one of my more brilliant ideas, and between you and me, that is saying something."

-Professor Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling

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