[HPforGrownups] [SHIP] Twist in Emma by Austen - Will it be Significant to DH?

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 168862

>
> > laperchette:
>
> > Rowling said that her favourite twist in a book is the
> > shipping-twist in Emma.
>
> > Lynda:
>
> > Umm...what shipping twist in Emma?
>
> Sarah AO:
>
> I was wondering about this too. I've read Emma several times.
> Maybe everything seems so plotted now is that I can see all of
> the hints and know what they refer to because I'm so familiar
> with it. I think the average reader will not pick up on the
> secret engagement between Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax.
> You certainly would be able to pick something up but wouldn't
> know absolutely everything. I'd like to think that if JK likes
> this particular twist, then maybe two characters have been
> married/secretly engaged the whole time without anyone picking
> up on it. Any candidates for this one?


montims:
In fact, that IS the twist:
"I re-read Austen's novels in rotation - I've just started *Mansfield
Park*again. I could have chosen any number of passages from each of
her novels,
but I finally settled on *Emma*, which is the most skilfully managed mystery
I've ever read and has the merit of having a heroine who annoys me because
she is in some ways so like me. I must have read it at least 20 times,
always wondering how I could have missed the glaringly obvious fact that
Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax were engaged all along. But I did miss it,
and I've yet to meet a person who didn't, and I have never set up a surprise
ending in a Harry Potter book without knowing I can never, and will never,
do it anywhere near as well as Austen did in *Emma*."
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0500-heraldsun-rowling.html


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