[HPforGrownups] Re: Reading by JK Rowling at Radio City - Spoilers Within (SHIP)

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 156432

On 8/3/06, zgirnius <zgirnius at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jordan Abel" <random832 at ...>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Ken:
> > > As for shippers: I've read a comment from her somewhere that she
> can't
> > > believe folks are still shipping Harry/Hermione after HBP. Well
> excuse
> > > me but do high school romances always become life long
> relationships?
> > >
> > > Lynda:
> > > But she never gave any indication of a H/H ship.
> >
> > I think the point was that the belief that, after HBP, H/G is "the one
> > true way" (as JKR apparently does) is based on an inherently flawed
> > assumption that "high school romances always become life long
> > relationships".
> >
> zgirnius:
> That assumption is deeply flawed when considering what might happen to
> high school kids of one's own acquaintance, but it is certainly not
> unheard of. My mother was 17 when she first saw my father (20). She
> claims she arranged to be introduced to him, and knew he was 'the one'.
> They were married 2 years later (she wanted to finish college) and they
> are still together 38 years after.
>
> However, the extent to which such an assumption is flawed is not very
> relevant to the question of H/G. Rowling has written her Epilogue. If,
> in it, Harry and Ginny are happily married, that's it. It does not
> matter how young they were when they first became a couple.

"The question of H/G" is not the issue. The idea, as held by many H/G
or R/H shippers (including JKR) that H/H is ridiculous or that anyone
believing anything but H/G and R/H is stupid, is the problem.

The idea doesn't have any merit, just because it's not the same as how
one person wants it to be? That would be seen as _incredibly_ arrogant
coming from anyone else, and I'm not convinced JKR shouldn't be held
to the same standard