SHIPS/ Reading by JK Rowling at Radio City - Spoilers Within

[lunamk03]

No: HPFGUIDX 156499

> Tonks-op:
> > lol!!  Yes, she can!  She is writing the book.  She is their
> > creator of course, she is the final authority on what will
> > happen and who will be with who.
>
> Random832:
> The problem is if she decides something like that in advance,
> that means that she's likely to try to "force" it even if the
> story tries to go somewhere else. That's called bad writing -
> What you've basically claimed is "she's the creator, so she has
> the right to write badly". And, sure, she does, but that doesn't
> mean we have to accept that it's the way it "should" be.


Well... This is such a touchy subject, it is sooo subjective. I see
what you mean with the "story writing itself," and Jo did have some
issues in book 4 and it seems that she had to undo and redo lots of
stuff, which proves your point.

But in the shipping side, I think she isn't forcing anything. It is
the most fairly simple and straight forward of all subplots: Ron and
Hermione, the bickering couple and H/G the classical guy falling for
best friend's sister. As you can see, she wanted to create something
original, but in terms of main plot and general story. The romantic
aspect in the books is accessory; it gives tridimensionality to the
characters but, so far, doesn't really have a big impact in the main
plot.

Ron and Hermione as a future couple, for instance, have been growing
almost organically from book 1. Harry and Ginny, although sudden, it
wasn't unexpected after OOP.

I can see why so many people dislike some ships. The concepts of
romance and love are very individual. If your (general "you") values
in this respect collide with Jo's values, then it is only normal to
feel cheated. But to claim that what she did is bad writing based on
personal emotional response and not in factual book examples is
unfair. Just my humble opinion.

Luna, Jo's woman through and through.