[HPforGrownups] SHIP cliches (Was: Re: H/H SHIP)

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

No: HPFGUIDX 79810

On 2003-09-04 10:40, cressida_tt wrote:
[...]

>I note that recently in a poll at a committed H/Hr site that H/Hr
>was acknowledged to be the most cliched ship. Whatever your views on 
>the matter you have to admit that JKR would try very hard to avoid 
>falling in to that most obvious of traps hero gets main female 
>character. I sincerely hope that she has something a little more 
>surprising up her sleeve than that old chestnut.
>  
>
Like hero's sidekick gets the girl? ;-).

On the other hand I'd like to know why it is often stated that X 
situation in Potterverse is cliche, and JKR would not write it that way. 
This seems to be most repeated in the SHIPping discussions.
H/Hr Ship -- no it's hero gets the girl cliche, FITD situation -- no, 
that is the love triangle cliche, R/Hr Ship -- bickering friends 
cliche... So it seems all mainstream trio solutions are cliche -- JKR 
should pair Ron/Hagrid, Snape/Hermione and Harry/Angelina so to avoid 
clicheism.

I mean cliches are called cliches just because they happen so often. 
They happen often, because they are based on real life peoples emotions 
and experiences: hero gets the girl, because heroics is very attractive 
to women; love triangles are caused by blindness of heart;  bickering 
require great deal of interest in other person in order to find those 
petty things to bicker about, and such interest may eventually lead to 
romance.

So, if JKR is going to give us realistic description of teen romance 
(and from what she wrote so far we can deduce that she is), this must 
inadvertly lead to cliche ending.

Regards,
Pshemekan