[HPforGrownups] JKR to Emma Watson: H should've married H

[Dorothy Dankanyin]

No: HPFGUIDX 192597

On 2/5/2014 8:56 AM, Shelley wrote:
>
>  Hermione, I always felt,
> would have been like "kissing your sister". She's so full of herself
> anyway, that I really can't see her fully partners with someone who was
> as competitent as Harry. It'd be too much of a competition. (It'd be a
> two first born marriage, for those who have read anything about Kevin
> Lemin and his birth order research- two first borns in a marriage tend
> to butt heads a lot as they are both used to being the leader and taking
> charge, and you can't have both partners in charge at the same time.) I
> am personally in a marriage like that, and it can work long term (we've
> been together 26 years), but it's only because each of us are too damned
> stubborn to quit. There's constant tension that never really goes away.
> You only solve it by each having his/her own demain to be in charge of.
>
Dorothy:  I know this isn't reflective of the story, but my husband and 
I, both first born, have been married over 50 years, and not because of 
continuous tension.  As corny as it sounds (this reflective of a comment 
in The Sorcerer's Stone), it's because of love.

> Shelly:
>
> Ron, in that respect, is a youngest and is used to constant making
> compromises, and so he would be giving in to Hermione a lot (the
> yes-dear type of relationship). I just don't like the idea that she's
> trying to rewrite the book long after it's finished- I think it's
> disrespectful to the readership.
>
> Dorothy:  Ron's not the youngest in his family, Ginny is.

>
>

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