OOP: Some shipping thoughts

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "psychic_serpent" 
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> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Neil Ward" 
<neilward at d...> 
> wrote:
> > I'm probably going to look back on these initial comments 
and 
> wonder what I
> > was thinking when it clearly states "xxxx" on page 581.  
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> > I don't usually comment on shipping, but there were some 
rather 
> > heavy signs and hints in this book, not to mention actually 
> > kissing.
> > 
> > Did JKR really need to cut away at the moment Harry and 
Cho were 
> > about to kiss?  It's not as if the next scene had them in bed 
> > smoking post-coital cigarettes [note to self: would probably 
be 
> > pipes in the wizarding world]. 
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> > Back to the ? for Harry, I think Tonks is a possible match, 
which 
> > may be why she was introduced.  The (slightly) older woman, 
who 
> > knows a few tricks...

Barb:
> Well, that would certainly be a twist, although I have a hard time 
> imagining her making a risky move like that when she couldn't 
even  bear to show a wee bit of Harry and Cho's kiss.  I don't 
think I saw  Tonks as quite the Mary Sue some people did.  I was 
actually waiting  for it to come out that Harry was also a 
Metamorphmagus (which is, I  agree, a very clunky word and a 
clumsy combination of Greek and  Latin).  After hearing her ability 
described, it seemed very close  to what Harry did in growing 
back his hair when he was young, when  his aunt and uncle 
gave him terrible haircuts.  So maybe when JKR 
> said he wasn't going to be an Animagus, like his dad, she was 
> smirking and keeping this one to herself?  
> 

I thought of that too. We'll see. I still think Tonks is a deliberate 
gift to fan ficcers everywhere, who can write the story of her 
doomed love for Sirius complete with five handkie ending 
(maybe that's why JKR so underplayed Sirius's death in the 
actual book <g>) But really, I think JKR had a reason for not 
giving Sirius a dramatic hero's death. JKR can write those, and 
she does, when somebody sacrifices themselves for a purpose. 
But Sirius wasn't  intending to sacrifice himself. He died 
because a  bunch of people, including himself, did stupid things. 

 I didn't need to see more of the Harry Cho kiss. What for? It 
wasn't going to change either of their lives, so all it could do was 
give me  a vicarious thrill...and if JKR goes there now, where is 
she going to go when there's a kiss that really matters?

Pippin