IF ONLY he'd searched a little longer, he might have come across a girl who could show him what a *real* relationship was like
You mean, IF ONLY JKR hadn't written that aweful, horrid epilogue? Because then it would all be open, all be free and positive and limitless. OBHWF might end the book, but we can all imagine the future we like, a more realistic one perhaps, where people don't all marry their very first girlfriends and become breeding machines, where people have the whole world and all its options open to them, and we can imagine them as we wish!
If only JKR hadn't killed off every other possibility.
Oh well, fanfic will prevail. It's just such a sorry way to end the books. It's so backwards. And limited. And so not the future I would envision for myself, anyone I love, or my favourite fictional characters.
I'd love to read a fanfic which turned things around at that point. I desperately need to see a BEST FRIEND Harry, comforting Hermione, offering her solace
When I read these chapters after Ron left, I had this inkling that this was it. This was the opening JKR could use to turn it around. This was an opening for H/Hr (I knew she wouldn't take it, but it was there nonetheless). It would have been too little, too late, but I was grinning as I envisioned the fanfic that will explore what went on in that tent late at night. ;)
Still though, even if JKR anvilled us all to death by telling us that Harry thinks of Hermione as a sister, she still doesn't seem to get that the Harry/Hermione bond is so much stronger and better developed and deeper than H/G ever was: In her own writing! That moment in the graveyard... how does she think that telling us about "several sunlit days" will ever measure up to showing us that beautiful H/Hr moment? She anvils us to death, but her prose just tells us differently.
And if only Harry could have kissed her, just thought ONCE of Hermione - whom we know he thinks is pretty - in a romantic way
Which is just plain dumb. There is not a single reason why Harry shouldn't look at Hermione romantically at some time, just as there is no reason why Hermione wouldn't at some point consider Harry. Ron and Hermione manage it, why not Harry and Hermione? Even after all the jealousy of Krum and Cho, Harry never once stops to think about what it means or what Hermione means to him, even to decide against it. It just doesn't make any sense for them not to, which is why JKR's surprise about H/Hr is so lame. They should at least consider it as it would be perfectly natural for teenagers to do, but the fact that they don't is ONLY because JKR has decided that they don't because she's made up her mind about R/Hr. Which is why the "she is like a sister" is an anvil from the author, not something we ever see Harry reason through or decide on his own by considering what it would be like to be with Hermione as opposed to Cho or Ginny or even Fleur. Because in the end, Hermione is not his sister (in fact, Ginny is more of a sister figure than Hermione).
Re: Part 3
You mean, IF ONLY JKR hadn't written that aweful, horrid epilogue? Because then it would all be open, all be free and positive and limitless. OBHWF might end the book, but we can all imagine the future we like, a more realistic one perhaps, where people don't all marry their very first girlfriends and become breeding machines, where people have the whole world and all its options open to them, and we can imagine them as we wish!
If only JKR hadn't killed off every other possibility.
Oh well, fanfic will prevail. It's just such a sorry way to end the books. It's so backwards. And limited. And so not the future I would envision for myself, anyone I love, or my favourite fictional characters.
I'd love to read a fanfic which turned things around at that point. I desperately need to see a BEST FRIEND Harry, comforting Hermione, offering her solace
When I read these chapters after Ron left, I had this inkling that this was it. This was the opening JKR could use to turn it around. This was an opening for H/Hr (I knew she wouldn't take it, but it was there nonetheless). It would have been too little, too late, but I was grinning as I envisioned the fanfic that will explore what went on in that tent late at night. ;)
Still though, even if JKR anvilled us all to death by telling us that Harry thinks of Hermione as a sister, she still doesn't seem to get that the Harry/Hermione bond is so much stronger and better developed and deeper than H/G ever was: In her own writing! That moment in the graveyard... how does she think that telling us about "several sunlit days" will ever measure up to showing us that beautiful H/Hr moment? She anvils us to death, but her prose just tells us differently.
And if only Harry could have kissed her, just thought ONCE of Hermione - whom we know he thinks is pretty - in a romantic way
Which is just plain dumb. There is not a single reason why Harry shouldn't look at Hermione romantically at some time, just as there is no reason why Hermione wouldn't at some point consider Harry. Ron and Hermione manage it, why not Harry and Hermione? Even after all the jealousy of Krum and Cho, Harry never once stops to think about what it means or what Hermione means to him, even to decide against it. It just doesn't make any sense for them not to, which is why JKR's surprise about H/Hr is so lame. They should at least consider it as it would be perfectly natural for teenagers to do, but the fact that they don't is ONLY because JKR has decided that they don't because she's made up her mind about R/Hr. Which is why the "she is like a sister" is an anvil from the author, not something we ever see Harry reason through or decide on his own by considering what it would be like to be with Hermione as opposed to Cho or Ginny or even Fleur. Because in the end, Hermione is not his sister (in fact, Ginny is more of a sister figure than Hermione).