[the_old_crowd] JKR the anti-shipper

[Mike & Susan Gray]

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David write,

>>>>> 
To kick off, I think DH does in a kind of back-handed way cast all that fuss
about the Leaky-
Mugglenet interview in a new light. No comfort for upset H/H fans, but it's
clear that the 
bonds of adventure trump romantic love for JKR. Look how, at the end, Harry
deliberately 
ignores Ginny and seeks out Ron and Hermione, who in turn function as his
companions 
rather than lovers at this point.
	
One Big Weasley Family, yes, with a hint of the Malfoys, but if it's Happy,
it's for extraneous 
reasons, not because of the relationships. In that sense the extreme R/H
fans were as 
deluded as anyone else: they just didn't happen to catch the rough edge of
JKR's tongue in an 
interview.
>>>>>>

Are you a reader of Cassandra Claire/Clare? (I bought her book, have enjoyed
it immensely and am looking forward to the next volume. True: every
character in the whole book has the same sense of humor - but since it's
Cassie's own weird but endearing sense of humor, I don't mind.) 

Anway: she wrote a (very positive) review on her website in which she made
an intersting conjecture: not only is JKR not particularly good at high
romance, she doesn't even like writing it very much. (Unless she's making a
joke of it, in which case she's devastating.) OTOH, what JKR is very good at
and loves writing about is friendship.

I liked that thought, and your observation dovetails with it.

Mike Gray
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bravery...." JK Rowling, The Goblet of Fire.

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