[HPforGrownups] SHIP: movie contamination

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No: HPFGUIDX 84214




  [Brian]

  > I was polling a couple of my students about their SHIPping
  > preferences.  The thought occurred to me that my R/H SHIP
  > inclination, and SHIPping in general is a product of movie
  > contamination.  Romantic prospects don't seem as salient in the
  > books.  Steve Kloves is an obvious R/H-er and I think his
  > presentation of those characters has changed the way I read them in
  > Rowling's books.  Character interaction in books one and
  > two seems
  > more matter-of-fact than the movie representations.


  Joj:
  I think the movie might have an impact on some people's perceptions of the
R/H/H relationships, but only those who've not read the books , or only read
them once.  Any shipping moments you can pick out of the movie are different
than what's in the books.

  Let's take that whole "hug" scene at the end of COS.  That showed the
difference between how Hermione feels about Harry(comfortable) and
Ron(awkward).  In canon, we do see Hermione hug Harry a couple times, (not
in a full run, with hair flying, in front of the whole school type thing) so
it's not to far off canon.  What we don't see in canon, is Hermione's
feelings being this clear.  If the boys had run up to Hermione, and first
Harry hugged her, and then Ron went to but pulled away, it would have been
more in the spirit of the books.  JKR has been very, very subtle with her
shipping clues.( Frustratingly so)  Chris Columbus is as subtle as the
Titanic.

  That said, I don't think real fans of the book will be swayed by the
movie.  Before OoP, I thought R/H was going to happen.  After, I became a
huge H/H and nothing they might put in the POA movie this summer is going to
change my mind!

  Joj
  "By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends".