Did She Get It Wrong ?

[Canary42]

I note that G K Rowling now believes she got the marital pairings wrong in her Harry Potter books.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26007732

Personally I thought she got it spot on - the Harry/Hermione possibility was just too obvious and twee.

[woofgang]

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

Not even if you are the author......

[jno]

it's always obvious that E Bennet and Mr Darcy are going to get together, but that doesn't stop the book working. Ron and Hermione certainly isn't obvious, but that's because you can't believe it will last.

[jomifl]

So the characters have taken over the plot, now that is Magic.

[Ken4155]

Is she did get it wrong, it's about the only thing she did get wrong. Just ask her bank manager.

[woofgang]

see I found Ron and Hermione totally believable and obvious.

[sandyRoe]

Such rejection could weasily embitter Potter and turn him towards the darker aspects of magic.
Such happenings aren't uncommon. Wasn't Luke Skywalker's dad once a Jedi knight who turned towards evil.

[jno]

she's too good for him, woofgang! The heroine should not marry the comic sidekick. Donald O'Connor does not get Debbie Reynolds.

[woofgang]

jno, He will deal with her tantrums much better than Harry would!

[Canary42]

I don't think you can dismiss Ron as just a comic sidekick. He risked life and limb on more than one occasion for Harry. I'm sure JKR regarded (and presented) him as having more depth too.

[jeffa]

Who the hell can be bothered to be bothered with this?

[Buenchico]

Damn! I was going to post my thoughts but Jeffa has beaten me to it!

[jeffa]

'Twas ever thus, Chris... ;-)

[woofgang]

look, people discuss football on here as though it was serious and no one says to them who can be bothered (at least `i did once but the comment got removed :-) ) If you don't want to indulge in a highbrow literary discussion then go elsewhere you plebs!!! ;-)

[quizzywig]

I think the books are great and everyone ended up with exactly who they should have.

[mazie]

No she didn't.. all the books were pre-empting it, you just knew, so how she can say this now is a bit of a mystery to me. Right result for me. I would have been disappointed with anything else

[mazie]

LOL. What Woof said :o)

[Canary42]

Thanks woof gang. It always amazes me when people pollute topics in which they have no interest.

[Baldric]

Time for 'Expelliarmus' methinks!

[Canary42]

LOL :)

[jim360]

I think she's saying that she got it wrong from the beginning. Once that's happened then the characters are steered together by the plot and so of course it looks natural. I think Harry and Hermione would have been very happy together, but for all that I like that Harry and Ginny got together. It doesn't seem to come across quite so well in the films, the suspicion being that either Bonnie Wright isn't all that good an actor or that the filmmakers didn't spend enough time focusing on that couple, but in the books I think it's the right relationship for Harry.

Don't think it's all that big a deal one way or the other, but once you decide that the book is going to end with various romances that last it's difficult to see how else things could be paired off given the lack of central teenage girls in the book outside Hermione, Ginny and Luna (who ends up, rightly, with Neville if memory serves). So what other pairing is there but Harry/ Ginny and Ron/ Hermione?