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

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 192603

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:53 AM, <foxmoth at qnet.com mailto:foxmoth at qnet.com> wrote:
   
 > 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.

 
Pippin:


You can read the whole interview here http://www.jkrowling.com/uploads/documents/en_GB-press-wonderland-interview-1391774615.pdf http://www.jkrowling.com/uploads/documents/en_GB-press-wonderland-interview-1391774615.pdf
 
 

 (I had  to fool around with the zoom on my browser to make it legible). It turns out that reports of the death of R/H are greatly exaggerated. Rowling never said that Hermione should've married Harry instead, or that Ron and Hermione's relationship was doomed. 
 

 She's definitely not trying to rewrite the book, just acknowledging that her perspective on some things has changed. 
 

 Rowling had never been happily married when she conceived the books and started writing them, so it's not surprising that her earlier take on marriage was spun more out of desire than knowledge. 
 

 So read the interview everyone, and tell us what you think now.
 
 
 
 
 




Lynda:
 I read the article several days ago. Here's the deal. She now sees Ron and Hermione's relationship as being one, which in actuality would be as she puts it, doomed.


Everyone who is or has been married knows that it's hard work. Required by both parties. Would Ron and Hermione have had problems? Yep. Lots of them. And I'm not going to do any glossing over and say that love can solve all problems, because that's pure rubbish and probably everyone reading this email will know it.
 

But that doesn't mean that the relationship is doomed. That means that there needs to be a lot of learning relationship and communication skills and how to deal with each other. That's how marriages survive. 
 

 Now, back when all my friends and I were all reading the books as they were being written, we used to talk about pairings

 and I always said, "You know, if when they're adults, been married to the ones Rowling puts them with for years, something should happen to Ron and Ginny to take them out of the picture, Harry and Hermione would make wonderful second spouses for each other."
 

 Everyone laughed at me.


 Just sayin'


Lynda




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