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heidiAnd a topic has come up in a few discussions of the film
I'm not the only one, it seems, who wondered if Harry and Ginny were divorced or at least separated by the time of the epilogue, and just accompanying the kids together on such an important day.
Seriously, they don't interact, bump against each other, share a word or a glance, or anything atall in the epilogue. Draco is flirtier with Harry than Ginny is. And I say this as someonewho's been married 15 years -when my husband and I walk soewhere, we bump shoulders or hold hands or share a glance...
And Harry did that with Hermione and Ron. But not Ginny.
The film could have sold me on the two of them as a married couple - or even that Harry was pining for her. But I didn't get a hint of that at all.
I'm not the only one, it seems, who wondered if Harry and Ginny were divorced or at least separated by the time of the epilogue, and just accompanying the kids together on such an important day.
Seriously, they don't interact, bump against each other, share a word or a glance, or anything atall in the epilogue. Draco is flirtier with Harry than Ginny is. And I say this as someonewho's been married 15 years -when my husband and I walk soewhere, we bump shoulders or hold hands or share a glance...
And Harry did that with Hermione and Ron. But not Ginny.
The film could have sold me on the two of them as a married couple - or even that Harry was pining for her. But I didn't get a hint of that at all.
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Date: 2011-07-17 10:48 pm (UTC)Oh, Salon. Some fans, maybe, but very definitely not all..
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Date: 2011-07-17 03:24 am (UTC)I, however, didn't particularly take notice to that in that particular scene (just saw the film today). They seemed like a couple on a mission; to get their kids to the train on time. However, now that you mention it....yeah, there was NO interaction between the two. But, I never felt that there was.
But, even in the books, (and I know this series is not about how Harry and Ginny live happily ever after), the relationship didn't convince me. It just seemed so contrived.
Heck, I liked H/G in Barb Purdom's Psychic Serpent much better than JKR's version.
Maybe it's just me, but Harry/Cho seem to have more emotion between them, just with a glance.
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Date: 2011-07-17 03:33 am (UTC)Alas.
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Date: 2011-07-17 04:43 am (UTC)I think I had something in my eye at this point.
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Date: 2011-07-17 03:42 am (UTC)But, of course, you also know where I stand on the whole shipping saga.
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Date: 2011-07-17 04:04 am (UTC)But honestly, I didn't see anything there that looked suspicious. There is a nice little moment when Albus falls behind to tie his shoe, and Ginny and Harry share a look that to me very clearly said, "Are you gonna take this or should I?" And then Harry went back to talk to him. That stood out as such a couple moment to me.
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Date: 2011-07-17 04:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-17 05:28 am (UTC)Me too.
I don't think the film makers would intentionally go against canon for something like that. (Though there was the Neville/Luna shout out which surprised me and made me giggle because it was really cute!)
But as you point out fanfic writers certainly have been writing harry and Ginny as divorced since the book came out! (I'm surprised I haven't seen an 'EWE since the Carpet Book' icon by now ... or maybe I have and just don't recall ...LOL)
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Date: 2011-07-17 10:24 am (UTC)That look was a full conversation. If people don't want to see it, they won't.
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Date: 2011-07-17 04:38 am (UTC)This film out of all of them convinced me of R/Hr. {Anvil, meet head}. Yeah, they were cute together, and I totally got why they got together.
But H/G, just...........no.
Also, I honestly didn't notice the distance and/or glance between H/G in that scene; it all happened so fast for me. But, I've been married 22 years and I try to look at or touch my husband as little as possible. Just sayin'.....
>>>>>>>>I'M KIDDING.<<<<<<<
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Date: 2011-07-17 04:47 am (UTC)And I would have been the one dropping the kid off at the train. By myself. I've always been the one to do all of that. I guess Ginny should be happy Harry took some time off of work to do that!
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Date: 2011-07-17 06:13 am (UTC)And Neville/Luna was the best of them all, thanks to a nice moment from Matt Lewis and Evanna Lynch.
I could believe that Ginny and Harry are separated or perhaps amicably divorced by the epilogue. (The wedding ring he's wearing could of course be for his second marriage.)
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Date: 2011-07-17 10:39 am (UTC)I still didn't really buy any of the epilogue. The kids were cute, but it was still just 'here is how everybody got married and had kids', only the 'parents' all looked like children playing dress-up.
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