SHIP: Emma, Twists, and HBP

[Pat]

No: HPFGUIDX 136628

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
> 
> 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.


Pat:  Jo never intended to aim the books at children.  I know it was a long post - did you see the two quotes where she said she wrote it for herself, as something she would like to read, and that since she's 33, this is probably why adults like the books?  The publishers made the decision it was a children's book, just like they decided that she needed to call the Philosopher's Stone a Sorcerer's Stone.

As far as Jo being no Jane Austen, I think that remains to be seen.  
If book 7 continues on with the strangeness that was book 6, then 
you're right.  But if instead, she reveals deceptions and twists that explain why book 6 could have been written and published like that, then she has shot for her target.  And if she did, will we like it?  We probably will if it's in regard to Snape or Dumbledore's death, but in the shipping, only if it goes the way we'd like.