1. DLP Flash Christmas Competition + Writing Marathon 2024!

    Competition topic: Magical New Year!

    Marathon goal? Crank out words!

    Check the marathon thread or competition thread for details.

    Dismiss Notice
  2. Hi there, Guest

    Only registered users can really experience what DLP has to offer. Many forums are only accessible if you have an account. Why don't you register?
    Dismiss Notice
  3. Introducing for your Perusing Pleasure

    New Thread Thursday
    +
    Shit Post Sunday

    READ ME
    Dismiss Notice

J.K. Rowling regrets Ron and Hermione’s relationship

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Georgesickle, Feb 1, 2014.

Not open for further replies.
  1. Georgesickle

    Georgesickle Banned DLP Supporter

    Joined:
    Sep 16, 2011
    Messages:
    26
    MuggleCast just linked this on twitter. Doesn't sound like something she would say but if it's true it's pretty amazing.
     
  2. Jibril

    Jibril Headmaster

    Joined:
    Jun 7, 2006
    Messages:
    1,148
    Gender:
    Male
    Location:
    50.26°N, 19.02°E
    If this proves to be true, than in my opinion, it's on the same level as "Dumbledore is gay" revelation. Completly meaningless, and just a way to keep the buzz on - for whatever crazy reason that could exist.
     
  3. Meerkats

    Meerkats Unspeakable

    Joined:
    Dec 16, 2012
    Messages:
    712
    Location:
    London, UK
    Sounds like bitter fans' wish fulfilment.
     
  4. yak

    yak Moderator DLP Supporter Retired Staff

    Joined:
    Jul 28, 2007
    Messages:
    4,001
    Location:
    Australia
    That's hilarious. I'm still chuckling. Fake or real, it's a great troll.
     
  5. Celestin

    Celestin Dimensional Trunk

    Joined:
    Aug 21, 2008
    Messages:
    4,713
    Gender:
    Male
    Location:
    Poland
    The art of trolling at its finest.
     
  6. Jibril

    Jibril Headmaster

    Joined:
    Jun 7, 2006
    Messages:
    1,148
    Gender:
    Male
    Location:
    50.26°N, 19.02°E
    Well, at least it will generate more Harry/Hermione fics on the ff.net. Maybe one or two, will prove to be readable.
     
  7. Qweqwe123

    Qweqwe123 Fourth Year

    Joined:
    Aug 15, 2013
    Messages:
    111
    Read the 1st, I think, comment on the article page and the 2nd answer to it and you have the reason why I sometimes want to strangle people with barb wire
     
  8. Chime

    Chime Dark Lord

    Joined:
    Aug 22, 2007
    Messages:
    1,958
    Any kind of enduring relationship in HP is pretty much "wish fulfillment". Realistically, most of the students there would fuck off after learning magic, they'd probably all be sick of each other after being stuck with each other for so long and would be eager to start their "lives" in some advanced profession. Not to say that "high school relationships can't endure", just that it's pretty damned unlikely Hermione was ready for any kind of relationship, nevermind Ron or Harry, who are even less able.
     
  9. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

    Rahkesh Asmodaeus THUNDAH Bawd Admin DLP Supporter

    Joined:
    Apr 3, 2005
    Messages:
    5,128
    Location:
    Atlanta
    This sounds like something the Onion would post.
     
  10. afrojack

    afrojack Chief Warlock DLP Supporter

    Joined:
    Dec 29, 2006
    Messages:
    1,592
    Gender:
    Male
    Location:
    Southron California
    Knew it. Head-canon pretty much confirmed.
     
  11. Anarchy

    Anarchy Half-Blood Prince DLP Supporter

    Joined:
    Dec 12, 2009
    Messages:
    3,688
    Location:
    NJ
    JKR is the best at post-revisionist history - just look at the entirety of Pottermore.
     
  12. Red Aviary

    Red Aviary Hogdorinclawpuff ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

    Joined:
    Mar 25, 2008
    Messages:
    538
    Gender:
    Male
    High Score:
    2,757
    Fake or not I can't say I disagree with it.
     
  13. Invictus

    Invictus Master of Death

    Joined:
    Mar 21, 2013
    Messages:
    3,882
    Eh, Hermione never had any chemistry with anyone in the books for me. I don't think this is on the same level as Dumbledore is gay at all, that revelation changed a bit how I saw him, and made me understand and like him more. Also, that doesn't sound at all like something JK would say. I'm very sure it's troll.
     
    Last edited: Feb 2, 2014
  14. Dark Syaoran

    Dark Syaoran No. 4 Admin

    Joined:
    Jun 4, 2005
    Messages:
    6,141
    Gender:
    Male
    I think a lot of people see the chemistry between Emma and Dan in the movies, and mistake it for chemistry in the books. There was far more between them on screen than JKR ever put in the books, so I kinda agree with that, Invictus.

    As for the main topic... if she really did say that, that is pretty huge. Too late, but huge. Oh well.
     
  15. Joe's Nemesis

    Joe's Nemesis High Score: 2,058 ~ Prestige ~

    Joined:
    Jan 29, 2012
    Messages:
    1,192
    High Score:
    2,058
    If it's a troll . . . shrug.

    If not, pretty stupid thing to say, IMO. Everyone talks about how much being with Ginny is akin to Oedipus complex, but I'd think that's better than Harry ending up with someone who would rather mother him rather than being a wife to him.
     
  16. Sloth

    Sloth Professor DLP Supporter

    Joined:
    Jan 31, 2014
    Messages:
    474
    Gender:
    Male
    Location:
    Hungry for apples?
    I'm torn here. I'm not going to bother to find out if this is real or not, and just go with it.
    On the one hand, Hermione actually ranks amongst my least favorite characters of the main(ish) cast, and I never really felt she had a particularly strong romantic chemistry with Harry, no more than Ron did (meaning, pretty friend-zoned, not slash).
    On the other hand, the alternative is Ginny, a character and a pairing so unbelievably lazy not even the movie's extended scenes between the two could make it seem like they worked. Ginny never actually got enough time in the light to BE more than a narrative tool, and she was pretty boring at it. I never did understand why that pairing stuck.
    I might get some hate for this, but I actually felt that Luna showed an incredible amount of chemistry with Harry, which went alarmingly ignored by Rowling. It was really confusing.
    But between Hermione and Ginny? I really could take or leave either.
     
    Last edited: Feb 2, 2014
  17. thebrute7

    thebrute7 High Inquisitor

    Joined:
    Jul 24, 2011
    Messages:
    500
    Location:
    Newberg Oregon
    Meh. Even if true, I just can't bring myself to care really. It's too late, the story is done, and this knowledge doesn't add anything to my experience of Harry Potter. Everyone already knew that Rowling's romances in HP were all bullshit, and her finally realizing it changes nothing.

    I just wish she'd shut up about the damn world already. I swear, every time something gets added to the Potterverse, be it on Pottermore or in an interview, I want to stab something with a knife. Repeatedly.
     
  18. Socialist

    Socialist Professor

    Joined:
    Feb 13, 2006
    Messages:
    478
    Location:
    The root of mt. Olympus
    Omg JK, STFU already.
     
  19. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

    Joined:
    Jan 31, 2008
    Messages:
    9,027
    Gender:
    Female
    Location:
    Baile Átha Cliath
  20. Invictus

    Invictus Master of Death

    Joined:
    Mar 21, 2013
    Messages:
    3,882
    Let me clarify my post, if she said that, what I doubt, since I read in a interview where she said that Ginny was the perfect girl for Harry and all.

    Like Dark Syaoran said, Emma and Dan had a great chemistry, even better than Emma and Rupert, although between the 3, Rupert acting was to me the best. In the books, all romances were asspulls, in some degree or another, but unlike in the others (Harry/Ginny we saw so little in so many years, Lupin/Tonks... Just Lupin/Tonks) we saw a lot of interaction between these characters, and I saw no chemistry between them, and it weren't any years, it was puberty, damn it.

    And I agree with Sloth, Harry and Luna chemistry in the books was the best one by far to me, it wasn't a crush or anything, it was the beginning of a mutual atraction, in where both parts were interested in the other for their uniqueness and good heart, with a growing friendship added. I could even say that both saw each other loneliness too, but that would be emo. Because it sounds a very good romance story, I'm sure it was completely unintentional on JK's part.
     
    Last edited: Feb 2, 2014
Loading...
Not open for further replies.