[the_old_crowd] Non-HBP spoiler, was (SHIP: Oh, my.)

[Catherine Coleman]

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Damnation!

--- davewitley <dfrankiswork at ...> wrote:
> Nora quoted She-who-shoots-from-the-hip:
> 
> > 
> > "...it's when people devote hours of their time to proving that 
> Snape 
> > is a vampire that I feel it's time to step in, because there's 
> really 
> > nothing in the canon that supports that."
> 
> Golly.  Wow.  I hadn't got that far when I dashed over here.
> 
> Naturally one took sides in these debates, but I hadn't expected or 
> wanted it to end in a hail of bullets like this.
> 
> Blood on the floor.  Blood on the floor.
> 
> David
>



Indeed, and Pippin - you are a better person than I am being able to take this on the chin.  The
reason you came up with that theory was because there *was* canon evidence of Snape!Vampire.  Grr.

Anyway, I am totally "shocked and appalled" by the shipping content of That Interview.   I can't
believe that Emerson and Melissa acted in such a juvenile, gloating way.  I can understand them
being high spirited due to circumstance of interviewing JKR and all, and being R/H shippers as
well, clearly, but the way they handled it....and I think Emerson's apology over using the word
"delusional" makes things worse.

I know JKR tries to distance herself from what he is saying, but I think she's being a little
disingenuous as well.  To talk about "anvil sized hints" with regard to R/H is fair enough, but
she's missing out the fact that as a very mischievous writer who is often unable to give a clear
unambiguous answer to *anything*, she is unable to resist making it less clear cut.  H/H hints
abound as well - it is *never* made crystal clear until well after the first 200 pages of HBP.  Up
until that point, I would have said the most likely outcome was Penny's FITD.  It is obvious how
Ron feels, but not Hermione.  

I am quite happy with G/H, always being a Ginny defender, and I've always been less pro H/H than
anti R/H which really rankles with me, but I'm quite upset about the way in which people's
feelings have been trampled on in this interview.  It's verging on cruel, and I'm really feeling
for my H/H shipping friends right now.  

Catherine



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