Regrets of an Author

[JackLuis]

JK Rowling says 'Harry Potter' ending may be wrong

After seven volumes of Harry Potter, JK has expressed concern that she didn't get the story right.

LONDON (AP) -- Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is having second thoughts about having ended the series with heroine Hermione Granger paired up romantically with Ron Weasley.

The hugely successful author tells Wonderland magazine she chose the red-haired Ron for Hermione for very personal reasons having little to do with literature.

She told the magazine she "wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment" and said the couple might eventually need relationship counseling.

It sounds like a good lead for some fan fic that extends the HP sagas into the post-eighteen arena?

How about Hermione thrilled by Ron's ability to make her feel the magic the first time, (she was unable to intrerest Harry in exploring the erotic arts), becomes focused on Ron's magic finger.

Harry still has yet been unable to break the social conditioning of his earliest conditioning has yet to expierence the joy of women.

When Harry and Hermione are selected for the Howart's Scholarship, and are sent to a special school for "Britest and Bestest", but Ron is not and Hermione misses him. But she decides to use some special herb potion to entice Harry to tickle her 'spots' but Harry is so enthused by the herb's effect he ends up rubbing his 'spot' on her's and Hermione is even more enthusiastic about advancing her exposure to Erotic Arts that will increase her Witchy powers.

Ron, concerned that Hermione will miss him, writes Harry and asks him to ensure Hermione is serviced, because she becomes a real witch if she doesn't get her spot massaged.

Harry writes back,"....

 

[sr71plt]

Sounds like an excuse for yet another big bucks alternate book out of this franchise.

 

[Handley_Page]

Sounds like an excuse for yet another big bucks alternate book out of this franchise.

And this is a problem ?
Generally, I have enjoyed the Harry Potter stories; the films weren't too bad either.

Another would be OK to my mind.

 

[sr71plt]

It's not a problem that I'm aware of, no.

 

[StrangeLife]

I always kinda liked the fact that the "comic relief sidekick" ended up getting the girl. All too often all the spoils go to the hero in this kind of story.

There is also the entire jealousy-arc between Ron and Harry where they get into a fight... how would that work without the Ron/Hermione connection? And that is important to the resolution of the story.

Naah, I don't buy it. I think Rowling is looking at her own work with a 2014/15 mindset without acknowledging that she was a different person when she wrote the story. Thats a very common fallacy for which George Lucas is the poster boy...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The world is over Harry Potter, and Rowling has no encore.

 

[StrangeLife]

The world is over Harry Potter, and Rowling has no encore.

That's not entirely true. Though a phenomenon like Harry Potter is unlikely to occur twice in any authors lifetime, she isn't doing too badly on a more ordinary scale....

http://www.bookadventurers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/CuckoosCalling.jpg

 

[Bramblethorn]

It sounds like a good lead for some fan fic that extends the HP sagas into the post-eighteen arena?

Oh, the ficcers weren't waiting for JK's lead on this one! Hermione/anybody-but-Ron is pretty standard, from what I hear from my partner.

I always kinda liked the fact that the "comic relief sidekick" ended up getting the girl. All too often all the spoils go to the hero in this kind of story.

Enh. I think after seven books Hermione deserves something better than to be handed out as a trophy for Ron. I just don't see the chemistry from her perspective - she's out of his league.

The world is over Harry Potter, and Rowling has no encore.

Making three more HP films seems like a funny way of saying "over it".

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhug...rry-potter-films-on-the-way-from-warner-bros/

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Oh, the ficcers weren't waiting for JK's lead on this one! Hermione/anybody-but-Ron is pretty standard, from what I hear from my partner.



Enh. I think after seven books Hermione deserves something better than to be handed out as a trophy for Ron. I just don't see the chemistry from her perspective - she's out of his league.



Making three more HP films seems like a funny way of saying "over it".

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhug...rry-potter-films-on-the-way-from-warner-bros/

Depends on whose arithmetic you use to cipher with. Three Harry Pothead movies might be 3 cartoons shoehorned into the Scooby Doo Show or 3 commercials for the Man-Boy Love Association.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Sounds like an excuse for yet another big bucks alternate book out of this franchise.

Don't be so cynical. She has given immense pleasure to trillions of kids.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

The world is over Harry Potter, and Rowling has no encore.

Wrong, she has already proved it.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

It's not a problem that I'm aware of, no.

Can you just take down the rather OTT pictures you are trying to stuff in our faces. Most other posters are more discreet.

 

[StrangeLife]

Enh. I think after seven books Hermione deserves something better than to be handed out as a trophy for Ron. I just don't see the chemistry from her perspective - she's out of his league.

Having a partner thats technically beneath you, can provide you with an unstressed and comfortable relationship where you always hold a position of power. Going through life being worshipped by your significant other on a constant basis isn't a bad price to pay for marrying a "6" instead of a "10".

I know a few couples like that - and Hermione being smarter than Ron and Harry combined might very well be the kind of person to go for that option.

Making three more HP films seems like a funny way of saying "over it".

They are to be "set in the HP universe" - not actually be Harry Potter movies, though I assume that a cameo from the original cast is a possibility. Maybe they will feature Newt Scamander or the Weasley-dude who researches exotic animals.

It could turn out ok... or it could be horrible...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Wrong, she has already proved it.

Like Chelsea Clinton demonstrated her 27K per minute journalist worth.

Youre a rotting ass apple.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Having a partner thats technically beneath you, can provide you with an unstressed and comfortable relationship where you always hold a position of power. Going through life being worshipped by your significant other on a constant basis isn't a bad price to pay for marrying a "6" instead of a "10".

True, I could picture that dynamic working for somebody like Draco, I just can't see Hermione being content with that. She strikes me as the sort of person who'd want a fellow bookworm/swot. But I might be wrong.

They are to be "set in the HP universe" - not actually be Harry Potter movies, though I assume that a cameo from the original cast is a possibility. Maybe they will feature Newt Scamander or the Weasley-dude who researches exotic animals.

It could turn out ok... or it could be horrible...

Indeed. Either way, I expect it's going to rake in a fortune for JKR.

 

[Handley_Page]

True, I could picture that dynamic working for somebody like Draco, I just can't see Hermione being content with that. She strikes me as the sort of person who'd want a fellow bookworm/swot. But I might be wrong.
Indeed. Either way, I expect it's going to rake in a fortune for JKR.

"She strikes me as the sort of person who'd want a fellow bookworm/swot. But I might be wrong."

Personally, I think she simply grew up.

 

[bashfullyshameless]

I dunno. I've written at least one set of hook-ups in my books that, in hindsight, I wish I'd done differently -- "friends with benefits" when really "just good friends" would probably have been a much more satisfying outcome. I wrote the hook-ups in part because I liked them, sure, but I also felt like I was doing what would please the audience.

It's fine the way it is, and it's fun and all. I don't dwell on that issue with regret. But looking back, I think going without the hook-ups would have been a better choice. It happens.

 

[jonthechaosman]

Desperately trying to resist the urge to explain the Hermione/Ron dynamic and how it works better personality and compatibility wise than pairing Hermione with Harry. I am way to big of a Potterhead and the characters are way too real to me to get into it without taking it too far.



Yes. I am aware that I need professional help. No need to point it out.

 

[sr71plt]

Don't be so cynical. She has given immense pleasure to trillions of kids.

Or, some like you, haven't even written a story for Lit. in eight years and are feeling the sour grapes.

No, I won't take them down. Perhaps you haven't noticed that they change every two weeks--which says something both about my writing and yours.

 

[StrangeLife]

Personally, I think she simply grew up.

Happens to the best of us, if we're not careful.

Desperately trying to resist the urge to explain the Hermione/Ron dynamic and how it works better personality and compatibility wise than pairing Hermione with Harry. I am way to big of a Potterhead and the characters are way too real to me to get into it without taking it too far.

I've read that Ron originally was supposed to perish in the final battle but that Rowling later decided that the emotional impact on her youngest fans would be unnecessarily harsh - a realisation she came to after the strong reactions following the Dumbledore incident.

So the Ron/Hermione ship was kinda like patched on in the last minute... just like the feel-good ending. Harry Potter was actually a pretty dark story.

 

[jonthechaosman]

I've read that Ron originally was supposed to perish in the final battle but that Rowling later decided that the emotional impact on her youngest fans would be unnecessarily harsh - a realisation she came to after the strong reactions following the Dumbledore incident.

So the Ron/Hermione ship was kinda like patched on in the last minute... just like the feel-good ending. Harry Potter was actually a pretty dark story.

There were a few people that were supposed to die during the series that ended up living for various reasons, sometimes for the story, sometimes because of the reactions to deaths that DID happen. Arthur Weasley among others. It truly is a dark story. Perhaps that is why it has impacted so many so heavily. I still say that Ron and Hermione were perfect for each other. Their characters were written in a way that showed how they compliment each other well. Each ones weaknesses were supported by their partners strengths. To me it seemed like the type of relationship that would be very healthy as adults.

 

[sr71plt]

Perhaps to assuage her understandable "empty nest" withdrawal, Rowling should write a twenty-years hence novel showing how this relationship is working well.

 

[StrangeLife]

I still say that Ron and Hermione were perfect for each other. Their characters were written in a way that showed how they compliment each other well. Each ones weaknesses were supported by their partners strengths. To me it seemed like the type of relationship that would be very healthy as adults.

Yes, if Ron had been the prodigy and Hermione was the "Weasley" - then I would have agreed. But women rarely date down. Even insecure ones.

If we compare Hermione to Lily Potter for instance - they are pretty much two generations of the same type of girl - she went straight for the upward mobile asshole with power (Harry Potters dad).

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Rowling is one more Barbra Streisand or Madonna; when she's 80 she'll still be posting beaver shots no one wants to look at.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Why this venom against JKR and HP. Sitting at a café table to save heating bills she wrote HP in exercise books and lived off food stamps. Turned down by all the 'renowned' publishing houses, she found a boutique publisher who took a risk and made both their names.