I read the interview with Melissa and Emerson when it came out back on the day. I remember waiting anxiously for both parts and I remember being thrilled with all the Ron/Hermione talk. I remember the fallout too. I was a Mugglenet girl and I remember Emerson putting up a wall of shame with all the hate mail he got as a result of the interview.
I read that interview again last night. And I just don't understand what changed. She says perspective but still, I don't get it. And the whole "Ron isn't smart" thing puts my teeth on edge because he and Harry always had the same grades (except Harry's superior skill in DADA).
It hurts me that she did this, but you're right. This means absolutely nothing because the book has been written and now it belongs to us.
Part of me thinks that she might have had a glass of wine or two at this point and wasn't considering her words. (And I'm not being facetious. I know that, post-books, she's got this history of blabbing whatever comes to her mind, but she's not normally unkind to her important characters. I don't get why she'd say that, especially as she KNOWS the beatings he took by the H/Hr shippers, and always seemed keen to defend him before.)
What is going on in her own life that has made her say these things?
Ron was a very typical teenage boy. Why the shippers, and now the author, expect him to have the full emotional maturity of a grown man, I do not understand. It smacks of personal bitterness to me. Always has.
Earlier I said the exact same thing you did about the possibility of too much wine. Her comments were just so out there.
I also don't understand her need to share these thoughts with us. If this a personal thing, then she should have kept it that. At this point I just want her to STFU and STFD before she ruins it all.
I totally agree. God, I just wish I could understand why she turned on Ron so completely.
The interesting thing to me is that she says that Ron/Hermione was "wish fulfillment" but actually I see Harry/Hermione as more wish fulfillment - sort of the king and queen of the prom thing. In real life I think couples bring their strengths and weaknesses to a relationship and work them out, but golden girl + golden boy has never been of much interest to me romantically (neither in literature nor in real life.)
But then again, since Remus/Tonks was always the only romantic relationship that I was truly invested in, and the way they ended was just so contrary to how I viewed the characters, I feel that as much as I love the books and the fandom, there is a great distance between how JKR's thoughts (or at least how I perceive them) and my own.
I was so glad to see a YA series, or any series with any romance at all, that had a boy and girl who get along and are good friends STAY FRIENDS. No romance. No sex. No trying to be more. Just friends, mutually esteemed, lifelong. It's so healthy.
That's very nearly word for word what I said earlier today.
Besides causing me a PTSD episode from the Potter fandom, Rowling's announcement has dumped an ocean tanker of fuel on the Naruto pairing wars, and I knew it would -- I mean, after I stopped screaming in my pillow over the news itself.
The equivalent of the H/Hr fans are now saying that Kishimoto won't make the mistakes Rowling now ADMITS TO MAKING, and therefore -- despite 12 years of meticulous setup of the main pairing for the hero -- he will take advantage of JKR's smelling salts and correct the error of his ways before it's too late.
For an example of what I'm talking about, read this bit of so-called satireI really don't know if I can live through this crap again. x__X
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I'm glad I found some sane corner of this batshit fandom. I largely ignored facebook today with all the 'I TOLD YOU SO!' and the 'Draco/Ginny is next
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How am I supposed to interpret canon anymore?Canon is what is in the books. Period. If it's there and clear, it's canon. If it's unclear, I can see her giving a little extra insight, but still -- if it's important, you put it in your book. That's your chance
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if it's important, you put it in your book. That's your chance.
I agree. I have no problem releasing background notes, some of her info on McGonagall and Lupin has been great, but that doesn't change canon or how 99.9% of us perceive the character.
The thing with Ron that really bothers me is that she's making comments about the husband he would have been based on how he was at seventeen. No modern boy is ready to be married at seventeen. (That is one of my only reservations about Edward and Bella's early marriage, because as mature as he is, she is not -- even as an old soul. Granted, she's older than her age, etc., but I feel like she might have had less Jake crap if she'd been left to grow up.) Is she implying that he experienced no maturation in the wake of his experiences? That Hermione also didn't? That we're all doomed to be as adults what we were as teens?I thought the same thing too. And if they broke up a dozen times before they were ready, that wouldn't have changed anything either. But yes, to imply they're both
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I read that interview again last night. And I just don't understand what changed. She says perspective but still, I don't get it. And the whole "Ron isn't smart" thing puts my teeth on edge because he and Harry always had the same grades (except Harry's superior skill in DADA).
It hurts me that she did this, but you're right. This means absolutely nothing because the book has been written and now it belongs to us.
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Part of me thinks that she might have had a glass of wine or two at this point and wasn't considering her words. (And I'm not being facetious. I know that, post-books, she's got this history of blabbing whatever comes to her mind, but she's not normally unkind to her important characters. I don't get why she'd say that, especially as she KNOWS the beatings he took by the H/Hr shippers, and always seemed keen to defend him before.)
What is going on in her own life that has made her say these things?
Ron was a very typical teenage boy. Why the shippers, and now the author, expect him to have the full emotional maturity of a grown man, I do not understand. It smacks of personal bitterness to me. Always has.
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I also don't understand her need to share these thoughts with us. If this a personal thing, then she should have kept it that. At this point I just want her to STFU and STFD before she ruins it all.
I totally agree. God, I just wish I could understand why she turned on Ron so completely.
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But then again, since Remus/Tonks was always the only romantic relationship that I was truly invested in, and the way they ended was just so contrary to how I viewed the characters, I feel that as much as I love the books and the fandom, there is a great distance between how JKR's thoughts (or at least how I perceive them) and my own.
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That's very nearly word for word what I said earlier today.
Besides causing me a PTSD episode from the Potter fandom, Rowling's announcement has dumped an ocean tanker of fuel on the Naruto pairing wars, and I knew it would -- I mean, after I stopped screaming in my pillow over the news itself.
The equivalent of the H/Hr fans are now saying that Kishimoto won't make the mistakes Rowling now ADMITS TO MAKING, and therefore -- despite 12 years of meticulous setup of the main pairing for the hero -- he will take advantage of JKR's smelling salts and correct the error of his ways before it's too late.
For an example of what I'm talking about, read this bit of so-called satireI really don't know if I can live through this crap again. x__X ( ... )
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I agree. I have no problem releasing background notes, some of her info on McGonagall and Lupin has been great, but that doesn't change canon or how 99.9% of us perceive the character.
The thing with Ron that really bothers me is that she's making comments about the husband he would have been based on how he was at seventeen. No modern boy is ready to be married at seventeen. (That is one of my only reservations about Edward and Bella's early marriage, because as mature as he is, she is not -- even as an old soul. Granted, she's older than her age, etc., but I feel like she might have had less Jake crap if she'd been left to grow up.) Is she implying that he experienced no maturation in the wake of his experiences? That Hermione also didn't? That we're all doomed to be as adults what we were as teens?I thought the same thing too. And if they broke up a dozen times before they were ready, that wouldn't have changed anything either. But yes, to imply they're both ( ... )
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