SHIP: Love in HP (was Re: Harry's protection)

[Rob]

No: HPFGUIDX 112994

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, macfotuk at y... wrote:
> (Noting that Love as in 'he loves her/SHIP love' (romantic love) IS 
> sparse in JKR because that's not what the books are about - 
> Harry/Cho for example never even gets going and then is over - 

I'm not so sure.  If the series was strictly a G vs. E epic I don't 
think you would have such an honest portrayal of teen crushes.  But 
if, as I strongly believe, the series is also a coming of age story, 
albeit in an extremely fantastic wrapper, then SHIP love is very 
important.

Placing the Harry/Cho SHIP in that contaxt, I think it can be 
interpreted as Harry's first, unsuccessful, love, which will mature 
him and allow for a better SHIP later.

Rob "Totally for HP & GW" Kristjansson