[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: Harry and....Susan?

[BrwNeil at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 131898

 
In a message dated 7/3/2005 5:56:19 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
karenabarker at yahoo.co.uk writes:

Very  intersting theory and allows me to bring up something 
that I noticed  yesterday when I was watching the first film again.  I 
know the film  isn't strictly cannon, but JKR has a very big say in 
what can be left out  so that the film makers don't inadvertantly leave 
out something vital that  seems trivial.  The only people we see sorted 
are Harry, Ron,  Hermione, Draco and *Susan Bones*.  Not Neville, not 
the Patil twins,  indeed no one from Ravenclaw.  And it's not even an 
alphabetical  order thing, because Hermione is sorted first.  The fact 
that Susan  was shown being sorted rang alarm bells in my head, 
although admittedly  shipping didn't occur to me.
JKR in her books often does drop hints, but that doesn't mean that every  
line she writes is meaningful to the story.  I think sometimes we as  readers try 
to give everything she puts on paper significance when it might not  actually 
have any.  Take the sorting in book one as an  example.  Is every person that 
we see sorted important to the story?   Which came first, the egg or the 
chicken? 
 
Did JKR when she first wrote SS have parts in mind for every student she  
sorted or did she just sort names and then later give those names bit parts in  
the story.  I tend to think the latter.  She could hardly just sort  Harry, 
Ron, Neville and Hermione.  It would have looked like everyone went  to 
Gryffindor.  
 
As for Susan Bones becoming Harry's love, I guess anything is possible, but  
I wouldn't use the movie as any indication.  I think the reason that her  
sorting was shown had more to do with her being played by Chris Columbus'  
daughter than her future importance to the story.
 
Maybe Harry will fall for Sally-Anne Perks or Lisa Turpin.  They were  sorted 
and then dissappeared.  Does it really matter who Harry ends up with  or if 
he actually ends up with anyone?   My answer to that is yes, but  I'll feel 
ripped off if it is someone that only appears in book seven after we  have all 
shipped either Hermione or Ginny for five books.






Neil
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