[HPforGrownups] Re: Ship predictions(scenarios)

[Justine74 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 90785

JuHu (lovefromhermione at yahoo.com) writes:

<Ah, now I'm glad you've brought up Susan Bones. I've
<been wondering about her for awhile now, because of
<some (alas!) movie contamination. Why has she been
<given so much screen time when we've seen neither hide
<nor hair of Lavender and Parvati? She was sitting with
<Hermione in the boat on the first-year trip across the
<lake, she was the only other person shown being sorted
<besides the trio and Malfoy, and we see her sitting by
<Hermione in Lockhart's first class. Why? When I first
<saw the first movie I couldn't figure out who the heck
<she was, I still wasn't a huge fan at that point and
<didn't know all the characters inside and out. Now
<that I've become an obsessive freak, I've been keeping
<an eye on her, wondering what JKR has in store for
<her. Does anyone else have theory about what role she
<will play? 

I reply:

Unfortunately, (at least for my crazy Harry/Susan theory <g>), in my opinion, 
the constant presence of Susan Bones in the movies does not necessarily 
provide foreshadowing of anything, because the girl playing Susan Bones is Chris 
Columbus's daughter.  He could have just wanted his daughter to have a little 
role, and he just picked Susan Bones as the character for her to play.  Then 
again, if I really want to stretch things, I guess I could ask, why Susan Bones? 
Why not someone else? Did JKR want Susan Bones to be something of a presence 
in the movies so she didn't just burst on the scene later on? Who knows? Maybe. 
 But I'm thinking the first option, that CC just picked a character so his 
daughter could have a role is probably the more likely one, especially 
considering the fact that JKR only seems to tell the screenwriter, the director(s) and 
the actors only what they absolutely need to know. Because even if Susan Bones 
does become important later, the casting of Eleanor Columbus is not something 
that would hurt the plot or anything, (since Susan is presumably always in 
the background in the books) because they could always just recast later.  So I 
guess we'll have to wait and see where Susan ends up. :-)


JuHu (lovefromhermione at yahoo.com) writes:

<However, I'm starting to realize
<that it doesn't matter to me if Harry ends up with
<Hermione or Angelina Johnson, as long as he gets some
<happiness out of this crummy hand he's been dealt. 

Isn't that the truth?!! It was a bit of a relief that at the end of OOTP that 
some of the people in Harry's life (Dumbledore, Lupin, etc.) seemed to start 
realizing that a bit more of an interventionist approach needed to be taken 
with Harry.  I mean to just keep throwing him back to the Dursleys with no 
visits, no intervention, no anything, summer after summer, after he's been through 
so many traumatic things, was a little rough, even for the stiff upper lip, 
tough-love wizarding world.

I'm thinking that in Book 6, Harry's going to be more emotionally isolated.  
I think the grief *and* guilt associated with Sirius's death are going to make 
him very wary of getting too close to people for a while.  Maybe it will be 
his perfect "ship" partner who will break down that wall. :-)

TTYL,

DJ


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