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Jul. 19th, 2005 06:34 pmVintage January 3, 2001
( Draco Malfoy Character Sketch as originally posted to HPForGrownups )
( And from my post about six months later... )
I recommend going to post 8471 and reading the replies to that post, including Caius's, Cassie's, Susan McGee's and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
owlman's. And this is a moment when we all should pause and sing folk's filk.
Now, the issue of right and wrong and stuff. I have heard tell (although I haven't read it myself, having read a random 400 or so posts of the last 1500 on my flist) that there are R/Hr shippers who have been recorded as saying that Ron and Hermione were snogging throughout book 4 or at least book 5 or would, at a minimum, be snogging *during* Book Six that all those who shipped either of those people with anyone else (except, arguably Lav Lav and Vik Vik) should admit they were wrong and didn't read the signs in the books properly, but, of course, anyone who actually thought that there was snogging between the two in Book Five was just as wrong. Right? And those who prophesized after Book Four that Harry and Ginny were soulmates and would shortly fall in lurve and lurve happily ever after but for the interference of You Know Who were also, er, wrong.
In other words, none of us predicted 100% what she was going to do. None of us have a clear line to her brain, and none of us should be slammed or laughed at or criticized for not being accurate with our predictions.
So I'm going to quotelupinslittlesis on this (although, unlike her, I am perfectly at peace with R/T) and leave it at that, for now:
You can fill in whatever ship name you want in the above, right?
( Draco Malfoy Character Sketch as originally posted to HPForGrownups )
( And from my post about six months later... )
I recommend going to post 8471 and reading the replies to that post, including Caius's, Cassie's, Susan McGee's and
owlman's. And this is a moment when we all should pause and sing folk's filk.Now, the issue of right and wrong and stuff. I have heard tell (although I haven't read it myself, having read a random 400 or so posts of the last 1500 on my flist) that there are R/Hr shippers who have been recorded as saying that Ron and Hermione were snogging throughout book 4 or at least book 5 or would, at a minimum, be snogging *during* Book Six that all those who shipped either of those people with anyone else (except, arguably Lav Lav and Vik Vik) should admit they were wrong and didn't read the signs in the books properly, but, of course, anyone who actually thought that there was snogging between the two in Book Five was just as wrong. Right? And those who prophesized after Book Four that Harry and Ginny were soulmates and would shortly fall in lurve and lurve happily ever after but for the interference of You Know Who were also, er, wrong.
In other words, none of us predicted 100% what she was going to do. None of us have a clear line to her brain, and none of us should be slammed or laughed at or criticized for not being accurate with our predictions.
So I'm going to quote
lupinslittlesis on this (although, unlike her, I am perfectly at peace with R/T) and leave it at that, for now:I feel like I'm expected to be embarrassed or repentent or sorry about loving R/S and not liking R/T. I'm being told they're JKR's characters, and she is Goddess, and if she wants to write it that way, she can. Well, I'm NOT sorry I love R/S, or that I'm not crazy about R/T. Sure, she's got the right to write it any way she wants, but I've got the right to say "that didn't work for me." Given that I'm willing to say I LOVED the rest of the book, and this didn't ruin HBP for me, or the Harry Potter series, I don't see why it's such a big deal that I thought she hashed up one of her minor subplots, but there you go.
You can fill in whatever ship name you want in the above, right?
