[HPforGrownups] SHIP (WAS: Ginny Weasley

[Helen R. Granberry]

No: HPFGUIDX 89565



Neil said:
> I'm wondering if Rowling either switched ships or decided against
ships
> completely.  Could outside sources have convinced her to go H/H
instead of
R/H.
> Could WB be influencing some of her book decisions.   Why was Luna
brought
into
> the story?  Just to give Harry a place to print his story or is she
there
for
> either Ron or Harry?

Joj says:
Would JKR really switch ships at this point?  Maybe with a smaller ship
like
Neville/Ginny, who I'm rooting for too, btw.  I don't think she would
within
the trio.  I think, if she's going to do something with either H/H or
R/H in
the next two books, and not just in an epilogue, it will serve the
overall
plot.  I'm not sure we'll see a full fledged relationship, but feelings
being hurt and feelings complicating things.  I don't think things will
go
smoothly, that for sure.  That's why I think there will be some sort of
R/H/H triangle.  Oh, the angst!


> I'm betting H/Hr, R/L, N/G.  I wonder how many years before the
answer?

That's what I'm betting too.  I think Luna would be real good for Ron.

Joj, who doesn't think JKR would consider changing anything in her books
for
WB.



Helen (LizardLaugh):

I don't think JKR would change her mind because of the movies (unless it
is something small, like the mention of the scarves in OotP), but I
could see her changing her mind on the romances so long as it didn't
have major plot ramifications.  I like Neville/Ginny too (much more so
than Harry/Ginny), and I could see her going either way on R/Hr vs.
H/Hr, though my bets are on R/Hr at the moment, mainly because I suspect
there is something very important to the plot that makes R/Hr
unavoidable. That said, I can totally see a triangle (in fact, I am
betting on it). A HRH triangle would be some monstrous angst, and it is
that one final thing that will tear the trio apart before coming
together in the end. She has torn them apart in every single book in
some way, and this would be the obvious way to do so now, given their
ages. It would also provide an impetus for Harry to branch out and make
new friends, which he desperately needs to do.

I can totally see her changing her mind on, say, H/G for instance (if
she originally intended that) and shipping Harry off with someone else
or no one at all. I suspect that Luna was an unplanned addition, based
on something she said in the Albert Hall interview. I wouldn't mind Luna
with Ron or Harry or Neville, and I definitely prefer H/Lu to H/G (which
is beginning to strike me as Harry/Ron-with-breasts, most especially if
Ron becomes Dumbledore). 

JKR has said she can change her mind, and I believe her. I know I've
done the same thing in my own original fiction as well as fanfiction,
and I am someone who plans EVERYTHING out in advance. There are certain
things she simply can't change her mind on because she's already set up
all of the clues and it is too important to the main plot structure (for
instance, Ron=DD if that is the case). However, smaller things, minor
characters, romances, magical artifacts, etc. that don't undermine the
main plot -- she can totally change her mind on. I think killing Harry
(please, please, NO!!!) is something she can change her mind on as well
because it will happen at the very end. 

Helen