Okay, I'm reading random LJ commentary on HBP, and I have to ask -- were we meant to think that Ron and Hermione hooked up in a dating way? Because I didn't think that, at all. There was nothing specific enough to lead me to believe that.
Thoughts?
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'Objects In Space'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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Steph L. - Jul 21, 2005 1:35:05 pm PDT #8424 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Narrator - Jul 21, 2005 1:37:11 pm PDT #8425 of 10002
The evil is this way?
ChiKat, Anne -- for HP VI *** My original thought had been that Harry would need to have something from all 4 founders or that Voldermort is looking for something from all 4 founders -- not just to store his soul but to do something else.
Here are the items we know of to date: (1) Gryffindor's sword (Harry used it in the Chamber of Secrets); (2) Hufflepuff - the cup; (3) Slytherin - locket; (4) Ravenclaw -- ???
Luna strikes me as a bit of a packrat. I wouldn't be surprised if she or her family have something.
Anne W. - Jul 21, 2005 1:38:26 pm PDT #8426 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Teppy, I feel like the Ron/Hermione situation at the end was set up so that it could have been interpreted as hooked-up or just-friends depending on the reader.
I really want the next book right now. I did not feel this way after reading book 5, by the by.
Narrator - Jul 21, 2005 1:41:14 pm PDT #8427 of 10002
The evil is this way?
HP VI *** I got a definite sense that Ron and Hermoine were becoming a romatic couple by the end of the book. I think JKR didn't make it formal then because the focus had to be on Harry, and his decision to "break up" with Ginny. Then again, who knows.
Anne W. - Jul 21, 2005 1:45:35 pm PDT #8428 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
(HP VI) Speaking of the breakup w/ Ginny, I noticed that she didn't exactly flounce off and say "forget you!" I think she's got it in her mind that once this is all over, she's going to campaign but hard to get Harry back.
Kathy A - Jul 21, 2005 1:53:28 pm PDT #8429 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
From part 2 of Mugglenet's interview with JKR, she says that she's been setting up Ron/Hermione for several books now. "I will say, that yes, I personally feel - well it's going to be clear once people have read book six. I mean, that’s it. It’s done, isn’t it? We know. Yes, we do now know that it's Ron and Hermione. I do feel that I have dropped heavy - hints. ANVIL-sized, actually, hints, prior to this point. I certainly think even if subtle clues hadn't been picked up by the end of “Azkaban,” that by the time we hit Krum in Goblet...[Ron] kind of needed to make himself worthy of Hermione. Now, that didn't mean necessarily physical experience but he had to grow up emotionally and now he's taken a big step up. Because he's had the meaningless physical experience - let’s face it, his emotions were never deeply engaged with Lavender - and he's realized that that is ultimately not what he wants, which takes him a huge emotional step forward."
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2005 2:00:35 pm PDT #8430 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Kathy, apparently that interview made a subset of HP fandom (the Harry/Hermione 'shippers, to be exact) just completely lose their shit.
Fandom crazy.
Kathy A - Jul 21, 2005 2:02:26 pm PDT #8431 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Well, she does call them "delusional," or at least one of the interviewers does. I tend to agree with him, though, so it doesn't bother me!
Fay - Jul 21, 2005 2:43:06 pm PDT #8432 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Fay - Jul 21, 2005 2:43:56 pm PDT #8433 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Did you read this, for an example of post-HBP 'shippers losing their shit?
It boggles my mind. But I remind myself of how upset I got with the whole end-of-Season 3 stuff on AtS, and I guess it's from a similar place. I felt that canon had taken Gunn and Wes and Cordy and Fred to a place I didn't believe - everyone's treatment of Wes was just SO bad. Man. So, so bad, to not even listen to find out why he did something so momentous. I couldn't believe that Cordy, in particular, could was her hands of him so thoroughly.
...so I tell myself I have no moral highground here. And yet at the same time I give you the link and say "look! crazy people!"