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

[AnitaKH]

No: HPFGUIDX 169121



Yippee!  Jane Austen references!

                                  honeypi reasoned:
 
 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. 
[akh snips ruthlessly]

 Lynda responded:
 
 Oh, is that it? See, that was no surprise to me at all. 

[more callous snipping]

akh adds, late in the game:
Another SHIP shock, which for me was much more surprising, is when Harriet reveals her attachment to Mr. Knightly.  Emma is completely nonplussed by it, and I believe the audience can reasonably share her astonishment.  Again, however, once we know the truth we can see the sequence of events and believe that Harriet, who hangs on the fringes of society, would find much more to admire in someone who rescued her from a socially degrading situation than someone who rescued her from would-be assailants.  Plus, her affection for Mr. Knightly was already in motion by the time Frank rescued her from the marauders.

Adding that scenario, we widen the field of possible SHIP twists.  It could be argued, of course, that we've already seen the Harriet/Knightly dynamic in book 6, when Tonks is revealed to be pining for Lupin rather than mourning her cousin, as many suspected.  

akh, who is still thinking about possible H/K equibalents in HP...






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