[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: Emma, Twists, and HBP

[Susanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 136594



Hi,

Friday, August 5, 2005, 7:28:32 AM, anasazi_pr wrote:

> Pat, I really love your analysis. But I think we are forgetting two
> things: 
> 1) Unlike Emma, Harry Potter is a children's book
> 2) JK Rowling is no Jane Austen

True, but the main difference to me is that HP and Emma are
completely different genres.

Emma's whole plot is all about relationships and romance,
while HP has this as a little side story (and I am so glad,
because I had to basically *make* myself finish Emma, since
romance alone is incredibly boring to me).

I read HP, because I generally love adventure, mystery and
friendship in my reading, and JKR does this well most of the
time, though I do wish for a different POV desperately,
sometimes.


> I can only wish it wasn't like this, not because of the shipping angle,
> but because I think the HP books lack both in subtletly and in
> emotional layers, something JA excelled at. But is more than highly
> unlikely, specially after the interviews. To pull a twist like that in
> the seventh book after that interview will be cruel to both camps in
> the shipping wars.

But in both books, it became clear very quickly who was
feeling more than friendship for whom (even if the
characters themselves were trying not to), at least where it
comes to Ron and Hermione. At first, it was easy to just
chalk things up to friendship, but the evidence for R/Hr was
just adding up more and more, while this wasn't happening
with H/Hr.

And while JK likes Jane Austen's writing, she never said she was
trying to recreate her writing style.

Otherwise we should have seen Hermione make relationship
plans for anyone *but* Harry, but he was in fact the one she
helped to get together with two girls (Cho, and indirectly
Ginny).


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 Susanne                           mailto:siskiou at vcem.com