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

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 192613

It happens often! I think of my friends from high school, how many of them
paired off and married and it's a lot. And then there were those who paired
off and did not marry, some by personal choice and some because gay
marriage was not (and still is not) legal where I live and again, it's a
lot of them. And most of them are still together. So people do marry from
relationships formed at school. Some even marry young and have successful
marriages.

Lynda


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Shelley <k12listmomma at comcast.net> wrote:

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> On 2/19/2014 7:33 PM, dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com wrote:
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> Alla:
>
> As to marriages, sure, I get what they symbolized - I just think that it
> would have felt more believable to leave the idea as to whether it is
> possible to meet your forever true love and never, ever date anybody else
> when you are eleven up to reader's imagination. Because while I am not the
> one to deny teenage love (as I am sure I mentioned before close member of
> the family met his wife when they were sixteen-seventeen), I think it is
> rare and meeting each other as kids is so rare that  could be eye rolling.
>
>
>
> Shelley now:
> I realize I am late in answering this, but I think the pairing of
> childhood friends or classmates occurs far more frequently than you know!
>
> I, myself, met my husband, in kindergarten. My husband and I are one of 3
> pairs of classmates of our year that married, right after high school,
> along with a 4th couple that "refound" each other after a 5 year class
> reunion, making for 4 marriages of same-year classmates, but I can show you
> another handful of classmates of mine who also married within the school-
> kids of a different grade. Our school was a small one, about 250-290
> classmates per grade, in a rural area. I know, from talking to my
> mother-in-law, that her rural school also produced multiple marriages of
> classmates. Given Hogwarts is a similiar set-up where the same kids attend
> for many years in a row, generating a strong intimacy of your classmates,
> and that school is segregated by location and lack of interaction with
> other schools, pairings between classmates and pairings between kids of
> different years is far from a "rare" idea.  A city school, where kids
> interact daily with kids from other schools in that same city produce a lot
> more different school pairings, because the access is there to do so.
>
> I also question your "never date anyone else" comment- where did Rowlings
> ever say that Ron and Hermione never dated anyone else? We have from the
> books that Hermione and Ron didn't go to the ball together, rather,
> Hermione had a relationship with Victor Crum, that continued for some time
> past the dance. While Ron was oblivious to "girls", Hermione was not the
> same about "boys". So much of Hermione's life, when she was not with Ron
> and Harry, isn't in the books, but it is alluded to. Harry was not upset
> that Hermione was dating, but Ron seems to be startled by it. Whether
> Rowlings was just trying to paint the boys as being new to the dating
> scene, or a jealousy by Ron that was the start of his romantic feelings for
> Hermione, gosh knows.
>
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