SHIP: JKR Interview (what she said and what she didn't say)

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52069

Angua:
> 
> <<<<And, come on, let's state the obvious -- her name will be 
Ginny 
> Weasley.>>>>>>>>

Penny:
>>> Well, it may be *obvious* to you, Angua.  What's obvious to 
me about Ginny is that she is a background character of little 
importance at the moment.  She isn't even mentioned, not once, 
in the last 400 pages of GoF (not again after the Yule Ball).  
She's not mentioned as eating lunch with everyone on the day of 
the Third Task when Molly and Bill come up to support Harry.  
She's not seen in the stands during the Third Task.  She's 
nowhere to be seen in the post-3rd Task scenes in the hospital.  
She's not on the train with them coming home.  Where is she?  If 
JKR were going to be setting her up as the ultimate love interest 
of our beloved hero, don't you think she ought to spend just a 
wee bit of time here and there mentioning Ginny every so often 
so the reader doesn't forget who she is?!  I personally think the 
H/G ship is sinking, sinking, sinking ........ but whatever.  <<<<

me:
So no background character of little importance who disappears 
from the narrative after Christmas can have an major role in 
future books? Scabbers the rat's  last appearance in 
CoS  is on page 211 of the US hardcover --it's Christmas 
morning, and Hermione shifts Scabbers aside so she can sit on 
Ron's bed. He disappears 2/3 of the way through the book. A 
stylistic weakness? Or do you think JKR wanted the readers to 
forget about him, so they wouldn't be paying much attention to 
Ron's rat troubles in PoA. 

Penny:
>>>>As for the "fairy tale" ending that OBHWF theorists long for, 
well, I just can't buy it.  And, no, Pippin, it isn't because I don't 
appreciate that adults can derive enjoyment from and gain 
something from reading fairy tales.  And, it isn't because I don't 
like fairy tales (can't wait for my daughter to be old enough to 
enjoy them in fact!).  It's because I don't think JKR is writing
these books as fairy tales.  But, more importantly, *I* think it very
likely that one of the 4 characters involved in the OBHWF theory 
will be dead before the end of the series.   <<<

I don't see the series as having a fairy tale ending. In fact, I said 
that JKR was moving away from the  fairy tale in GoF.  I do predict 
R/H and H/G. But I think that all Ron's brothers are going to be 
dead by the end of Book 7, making his vision "standing alone" in 
the Mirror a dire foreshadowing. I think that Harry will choose to 
give up his powers in order to defeat Voldemort, a far more 
poignant fate than a hero's death. IMO. He (and Ginny) will leave 
the wizarding world forever.  You could call that a version of One 
Big Happy Weasley Family, I suppose. But I don't think the name 
fits my scenario very well. 

Pippin