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

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 192601

> Shelley:
> 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.
>
>
> Shelley:
>  But in Kevin Lemin's evaluations, he takes into account sex order as well
> as birth order- so youngest of the boys also counts as a youngest. And,
> near the bottom of a large family puts them more in the youngest category
> than a middle of the family category. Point is, when paired with a first
> born, the first born is dominant, and the middle or youngest child becomes
> the compromising one, or the one giving in all the time to make things flow
> better.


Lynda:
Well, you know in real life, people marry people who they are drawn to both
for the similarities and the differences. You might be a teacher who
marries a teacher, for instance but maybe you teach high-school math and
your spouse teaches third grade, or maybe you work as a secretary and your
spouse works as an accountant. Someone said that Ron is a slacker, but I
never saw him that way. The reason he held back from completing things was
that he didn't like being nagged. Give him a chance to do the work and he
would. I know a lot of people like that.

So, Jo Rowling wrote a story, and her story put characters together in
certain couplings. Some of us liked them, some of us didn't. But still,
it's been written. Now, unless Rowling writes another story in which those
couplings are changed, she's kind of stuck with them.

Lynda