[HPforGrownups] Re: Why did JKR not explore H/Hr as canon?

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 168680

>
> > Neil:
> > I think more than anything, JKR hooked Hermione with Ron rather than
> Harry
> > just to be different.  The male and female leads usually get
> together.  JKR
> > wanted to be different and have the female lead end up with  the
> best friend.
>
> Neri:
> She may have done it just to be different, but I doubt it. JKR doesn't
> seem to be the author that does things only for the sake of being
> original or different. She isn't affected much by what people will
> say, this or that way. So, I think she realized that a lead female
> that is based on the the author getting together with the hero of the
> fantasy series would be a formula for a Mary Sue/Gary Stu couple of
> the worst kind. It would have also killed the interesting symmetry of
> the Trio, as H/Hr would have become the center of interest and Ron
> would have become a very secondary character.


montims:
I think I agree with Neri, though I have no idea who Mary Sue or Gary Stu
are, and I'm quite well read, so I would not be surprised if JKR was also
equally ignorant, and therefore did not base her story on them, whether
positively or negatively.

I have seen some very ugly shipping threads, and all I can say is that I'm
happy for it to play the way JKR wants to, because Shesayzso, and it's her
fantasy.  I understand that she had the whole 7 books mapped out before she
started, with backstory and futurestory in there, so I would not expect her
to deviate from that to suit the millions of shippers she had no inkling
would be quibbling over this years after her first book was published.


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