Comments | madderbrad: J. Rowling confesses she's a Harry/Hermione shipper!

madderbrad

J. Rowling confesses she's a Harry/Hermione shipper!

Feb 02, 2014 23:35

Well, I guess today wasn't a good day to try and get any work done ... :-)

Around mid-morning my IN box started showing unusual activity. J.K. Rowling regrets Ron and Hermione’s relationship!! and other headlines start appearing. Oodles of HP H/Hr fans come out of their 'retirement' to post the news (great to see them again! There's nothing ( Read more... )

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girlspell February 2 2014, 13:55:15 UTC

I highly doubt she will rewrite the books/ending. But with Rowing, you never know. She already said she wanted the Harry/Ginny ending. Then she sued someone over the writing the compendium. She won, saying she would write it, but then announced she wouldn't. It seems a lot of things she says, she retracts. So I don't know. She might come out with another statement, saying she really wanted Harry with Albus. You know, rewrite it resurrecting Albus. That he was never gay, just a joke.

madderbrad February 2 2014, 20:35:20 UTC

But with Rowing, you never know.

Heh, that really does seem to be the case.

That he was never gay, just a joke.

Well, his homosexuality was never canon anyway. (Interviews don't count.)

You know ... once or twice over the years I've thought how nice it would be if Rowling released her hold on her property, allowed other writers to work in her universe ... like the Star Wars and Star Trek universes (I recall entire walls with shelves of official books in shops). If some of those excellent fanfic authors could make a dollar out of their work for real, wow, imagine the stories. Then I thought nah, she'd never let those authors write anything but OBHWF epilogue-compliant work anyways.

Today ... I'm having that thought again.

girlspell February 2 2014, 21:20:07 UTC

She's been annoying me lately. She steps back from her statements. She uses that idiotic Pottermore site to make her great denouncements. That people actually still go there, really?? She wants it both way. She distances herself from Potter to write her adult mystery books, but won't let it go. She made her fortune with Potter. She won't move on.

madderbrad February 2 2014, 22:01:37 UTC

She won't move on.

You're (only now?!) feeling what a lot of us were experiencing immediately post-DH, back in 1997/98. When Rowling was lecturing to the faithful via the infinite number interviews and instructing them on how to read the books. Retroactively trying to insert new pseudo-canon to explain or prop up or fix the old. Slamming shut all the outlets of imagination for her readers - on the third generation kids, the Trio's futures, etc - "because it gives me comfort to do so, it's my world" (paraphrased from my bad memory; her 'A Year in the Life' television documentary).

Back then we were all screaming ENOUGH ALREADY JUST LET GO!

The pro-Jo OBHWF crowd didn't mind back then. I guess some do today. ;-)

So, you're right. So, so right. She won't move on.

I still wonder if there's an ulterior motive for this sudden retraction, though. It *has* to be embarrassing for her, right? On the other hand, this is the author of Deathly Hallows ...

She uses that idiotic Pottermore site to make her great denouncements. That ( ... )

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avidbeader February 2 2014, 14:01:12 UTC

Great post - love the introspection!

True, we'll have to see whether the full magazine article has any H/Hr support or not coming from Rowling. Part of me suspects that if the person writing the Times article read the whole interview, she might have seen support for Harry/Hermione and acted accordingly. However, writers don't necessarily get to choose their headlines and this could be an editor doing what much of the mainstream press does when it comes to Potterdom - inserting H/Hr because of the movies.

I am not at all surprised that Emma Watson has gained some perspective - she's gone from teenager to adult in the interim. I am still a little surprised that Rowling, even if she is doing this for publicity, made such a personal confession of failure.

But I will be glad that she did it, as she has now broken the "delusional" sword and given the R/Hr shippers a taste of what it feels like to have the author turn on you.

madderbrad February 2 2014, 20:37:10 UTC

- she's gone from teenager to adult in the interim.

Yes, the other obvious reason why Emma's changed her tune, I guess.

- she has now broken the "delusional" sword and given the R/Hr shippers a taste of what it feels like to have the author turn on you.

Hee, yes. :-) There have been so many grinning faces - like mine right now - over the past 24 hours! :-)

beege22 February 2 2014, 15:26:03 UTC

>Anyway, I wonder what those people are doing? Abandoning R/Hr, or jettisoning Rowling?

Currently they seem to be in denial. My suspicion is that they may end up clinging to that denial indefinitely. 20 years from now the hardcore canon shippers will still be insisting it's all a filthy lie.

madderbrad February 2 2014, 20:40:30 UTC

Now why was your comment screened? I lose at LJ.

Currently they seem to be in denial. My suspicion is that they may end up clinging to that denial indefinitely. 20 years from now the hardcore canon shippers will still be insisting it's all a filthy lie.

Check out the Mugglenet home page, it's hilarious. The caution and the *clinging*, to use your word, is staggering. Mixed in with the sycophancy - I could never take people/sites seriously that fawned over their 'Jo' on a first-name basis, absolutely no objectivity attempted there - and it's a sight to be seen.

"... we can't deny Jo's original plan and the deep love of the Ron/Hermione relationship felt by fans and author alike. - yep, 'clinging' to that 'original plan'. :-)

rainfletcher February 2 2014, 19:02:32 UTC

What it feels like to have the writer turn on you. Couldn't have said it better. ^^

This is truly one of the best troll jobs ever.

madderbrad February 2 2014, 20:41:50 UTC

This is truly one of the best troll jobs ever.

Hee. :-)

It's only hitting hard the fans who gave her words - both canon and post-publication propaganda - any weight in the first place.

And they deserve the shock, I think. :-)

ap_aelfwine February 3 2014, 02:58:44 UTC

Abandoning R/Hr, or jettisoning Rowling? Pick one. Hee. :-)

I read a few of the comments on one piece or another which I was linked,* and found a pile of R/Hr fans moaning about how JKR isn't invested in the characters the way that they are and doesn't know them the way that they do.

I found that hilarious, cos I don't know how many times I saw their lot going on about how H/Hr fans were a bunch of delusional nuts who had the temerity to say that they knew the characters better than JKR.

I do find myself wondering if some of these people who think that Ron is better for Hermione because he "makes her human" or "balances out her type A personality" actually would want to be in a relationship with somebody who belittles them and disrespects their skills and interests because they think they themselves need to be "balanced out"? For their sake, I hope not.

*As a general rule I don't read comments, but in this case I couldn't help it.

madderbrad February 3 2014, 12:59:43 UTC

I found that hilarious, cos I don't know how many times I saw their lot going on about how H/Hr fans were a bunch of delusional nuts who had the temerity to say that they knew the characters better than JKR.

Yes, the hypocrisy, it is delicious.

The thing is, a lot of those bawling fans can't see the hypocrisy, the double standards. I've seen others talk about that particular reaction. Oh, Jo's interviews don't count / Oh, so you agree then with what we were saying years ago, interview material like 'soul mates' doesn't matter? / No, that does, just not this latest.

Ha ha ha ha ha!!!

As a general rule I don't read comments, but in this case I couldn't help it.

Ah, you've gotta, this is fandom history! :-)