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

[honeypi28]

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> 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

honeypi:

This is a very interesting quote in terms of shipping, because the primary ships of both 
Emma and Mansfield Park are between couples who seem to have fairly well established 
brother/sister-type relationships.   This suggests JKR doesn't dislike the notion that an 
enduring romantic ship might have it's best roots in a friendship so solid the couple might 
be considered siblings.  It seems a large portion of readers regard Harry and Hermione in 
this light, so I wouldn't be too shocked if H/Hr does happen if I were them. 

Of course, Harry Potter isn't a romance novel, and the big plot twist(s) are not likely to be 
shipping related.  The thing about Austen's Frank Churchill/Jane Fairfax plot twist that 
made it so successful is there was just enough in canon, so that when the truth was 
revealed it was easy for Emma to connect the dots.  Emma was being deliberately mislead 
by Churchill, and Jane was cooperating in the deception.  I would expect an Emma-like 
twist to the HP series would involve a long time deception by people close to Harry.  I 
dislike Ginny - so I'll pick on her and say it could be that we have the emergence of Super!
Ginny because she's made a deal with the devil (LV) so to speak and her powers have been 
enhanced as part of the bargain.  She's be given beauty, popularity, superior athleticism, 
and the boy of her dreams.  But what has she given in return?  [queue menacing music].

Ginny hating aside, whatever the twist(s) is, I hope it's huge.  

Honeypi, who's new hero is phoenixgod2000 - greats posts!