[HPforGrownups] SHIP: Re: Who is the boy?

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 54414

In a message dated 3/26/2003 8:08:27 PM Central Standard Time, 
fausts at attglobal.net writes:

I have a more in depth post but AOL keeps bumping me, However I HAVE to reply 
to this.    

> Melissa:
> >I've no doubt it was meant as a supportive kiss but why JKR's need 
> to draw 
> >added (its her only hit-over-the-head-with-a-beater's-bat clue) 
> attention to 
> >it. 
> 
> Angua:
> You mean she drew attention to it like this:
> 
> "He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a 
> mother"?
> 
> JKR is clearly trying to emphasize the dark seriousness of what Harry 
> has gone through and what is happening to the wizard world.  
> *Everyone* is suddenly touching Harry in new, affectionate ways.  
> Bill Weasley claps him on the shoulder.  Fawkes nestles on his lap.  
> Sirius holds him by the shoulder throughout his talk with 
> Dumbledore.  Molly Weasley hugs him as he's never been hugged 
> before.  Hagrid pulls Harry into a one-armed hug and ruffles his 
> hair.  Ron claps him on the back, which he's never done before except 
> once after a Quidditch game.  Hermione kisses him on the cheek, which 
> she's never done before.
> 
> 

Apples and Oranges. None of the people (or bird) you listed are possible 
romantic partners for Harry.  Well in the fan fic world perhaps but we are 
talking the canon world and I *really* can't see JKR going in those 
particular directions.  And aside from Ron's backslap none of them happened 
in the last 10 lines (pg 734 Scholastic paperback ed). The more to keep it on 
the readers mind perhaps?  Maybe that boy lying on the garden outside Privet 
drive is remembering a kiss on the cheek.  Its as likely as some of the other 
speculation I've read.

Now off to recompose the rest of it on Works  <sigh>

Melissa


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