Couples in the Potterverse

[Lilac]

No: HPFGUIDX 47968


From: "Diane " 
Subject: Re: Couples in the Potterverse

<<<All shipping is presumptive!...<snip>
Shipping is a pretty pointless exercise - it can lead to so much ill 
feeling. Everybody has their own ideas and the fact is we have to 
wait and see. I am inclined to agree that all romances (never dating 
in English) will be very light. <snip>>>>


Hello, Diane!

JKR has said in an interview that the romances will be light and humorous, like you have said:

http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/Sum1999_Renton_SydneyMorningHerald.htm

"The story behind the Potter legend" 


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Really, CSLewis had very different objectives to mine. When I write, I don't intend to make a point or teach philosophy of life. A problem you run into with a series is how the characters grow up ... whether they're allowed to grow up. The characters in Enid Blyton's Famous Five books act in a prepubescent way right through the series. In the Narnia books the children are never allowed to grow up, even though they are growing older. 

*****I want Harry Potter and his friends to grow up as well as older, though I'll keep it all humorous, well within the tone of the books. I want them eventually to be truly 17 and discover girlfriends and boyfriends and have sexual feelings - nothing too gritty. Why not allow them to have those feelings?****** (emphasis mine)

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Nothing too gritty?  Sounds good to me!

~Lilac, who personally thinks love triangles sound far too gritty for the tone of these books...


 



 

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