Ship predictions(scenarios)

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No: HPFGUIDX 90702

> Sawsan now:
> 
> Hmm. I don't know Neri, if we are going to think that Harry will 
look
> for someone who has been where he has and has to understand him 
more,
> I seriously dont think Ginny or Luna could make the cut either.
> 
> I don't think that Harry will choose anyone by how aweful their life
> was so they could understand him. I don't even think Harry will be
> able to think about girls for a while, at least IMO not until he has
> fullfilled the prophesy and can rest knowing he actually can live 
his
> life. 
> 
> I think that shipping is hard enough now anyway because Harry has 
got
> far too much on his shoulders to worry about women, especially since
> he knows that he might die. I think Harry needs someone he can 
relate
> to as a person, and not as a comparison of whose life sucks more or
> who has had it bad. I am not trying to put words into anyone's 
mouth,
> just trying to analyse certain things that have been included in
> different posts from my humble perspective.
> 
> Anyhow, I am not placing any bets on shipping, though I would love 
for
> H/H to happen. It seems natural IMHO. But I agree with a lot of what
> was said about how no one seems to understand him.
> 
> Sawsan
> who hopes she hasn't offended anyone or made anyone angry.

Neri now:

Not angry at all 8-) but I think you slightly misinterpreted me 
there. I certainly did not write that Harry should choose the girl 
who suffered most. I just said that Neville, Ginny and Luna 
understand Harry in a much deeper level than either Hermione or Ron, 
because they have a notion of where he was and how he felt.

It is interesting, because H/H seems to be the most natural ship, not 
only for you and me as readers, but also for JKR. Harry is her hero, 
her brainchild, and Hermione is her alter ego. What would be more 
natural than ship them together? And yet it seems JKR took a 
different direction. Why? We know that JKR "had seen death" first 
during her late 20's (she had to watch her mother dying of multiple 
sclerosis, a horrible disease that degrades the victim before it 
kills her). Perhaps she realized that in her teen, before she went 
through this, she wouldn't have been proper for someone like Harry. 
She would have been afraid of the darkness in him, of all the pain 
and death in his memories. Or maybe JKR has an author's guilty 
conscience? I mean, she certainly loves Harry, but as the "ruthless 
author" she made him suffer so much, so maybe she feels that she (or 
her alter ego, Hermione) doesn't have the right to him. That he 
should end up with a girl who also suffered by the hand of the 
ruthless Author.

Neri