Didn’t JK Rowling admit a few days ago that maybe she should have just gave in to the shippers and granted them their Hermione/Harry fantasies?
Therefore, Roy got PWNED!
Jay still thinks he still has a shot with Miss Fanservice? We know he will take whatever abuse Mistress Rita and God Mode Sue and the hypnotist and the Gorgon and whatever other female is so repulsed by his utter betatude they must punish him for it and he will love it!
So that’s why no one’s put a collar on him. Forever alone…
Sorry but once Ginny decided on Harry, THAT was the proverbial IT!
He rescued her as a child, was her adored Big-Brother’s Best Friend, there waas simply NO WAY that she’d ever let Harry off the Hook. She’d found her hero.
Ron and Hermione’s Bickerson’s routine was how they showed their attraction for each other as far back as the Hogwart’s Express when they were First Year’s. They each had strengths that Harry needed, and as they focused on him as the “Hero” of their little group (He WAS “The Boy Who Lived” after all so there HAD to be SOMETHING there) they came to realize that thay ALSO complimented EACH OTHER’s Strengths and Weaknesses.
Rowling only wrote them. Yes, that gives her some insight. But they LIVE, on and off the page, due to themselves,
Sorry, but until you’ve actually had people living ‘other lives’ inside your head you really can’t understand how Characters can come alive beyond what their creator had planned for them.
Vaguely remember a dream I had once where Mrs. Weasley used polyjuice potion to fill in for Ginny on a date with Harry when Ginny was sick. Didn’t want to think about what that might’ve been like.
I agree with Leo Autodidact that the Harry/Hermione coupling would not have worked without rewriting from the beginning. Once you had that trio, it was going to wither be Ron and Hermione or none of them together. Or else Ron would’ve gotten killed. And thinking that Harry is so much brighter than Ron doesn’t really make sense ether. They had similar marks, both probably below their potential but neither truly an intellectual match for Hermione. Granted, we’re talking about fictional characters, but there has to be a certain flow in storytelling, and to me, a Harry/Hermione union would have felt awfully forced.
Sometimes people in books feel a lot more real than strangers a continent away – but then again, what do I know, I will disappear when the Red King wakes up
Here’s a thought: why was it inevitable that Hermione end up with Ron or Harry? How about her ending up with neither and finding a nice young man at a different school or – shocker – from the muggle world she came from?
A Harry/Hermione pairing would have been more natural. It would have totally destroyed the books, though, and I’m not sure there would have been any story to write. Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, zzzzzzzzz.
It’s pronounced “her-my-oh-knee”. Remember, she told Viktor how to pronounce it.
I learned that a long time ago because I was fascinated by the musical GiGi and the songs in it, including “I Remember It Well”, sung by Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold. It was such an unusual name, that I went to thelibrary to find out when my parents didn’t know. The librarian thought I was asking about Hermione Baddley, the thin servant in Mary Poppins!
Also interesting is that I saw the name Hermione the Grange used for a cat working as a wizard’s familiar in reoccuring short stories. They were in the short story collections “Catfantastic”, which predate the Harry Potter series. I can’t remember the author’s name.
At the time I thought maybe Rowling had read one of these stories and liked the name, since her character’s last name was Granger. Maybe they both came from Shakespeare…
SackofRabidWeasels over 10 years ago
Didn’t JK Rowling admit a few days ago that maybe she should have just gave in to the shippers and granted them their Hermione/Harry fantasies?
Therefore, Roy got PWNED!
Jay still thinks he still has a shot with Miss Fanservice? We know he will take whatever abuse Mistress Rita and God Mode Sue and the hypnotist and the Gorgon and whatever other female is so repulsed by his utter betatude they must punish him for it and he will love it!
So that’s why no one’s put a collar on him. Forever alone…
LeoAutodidact over 10 years ago
Sorry but once Ginny decided on Harry, THAT was the proverbial IT!
He rescued her as a child, was her adored Big-Brother’s Best Friend, there waas simply NO WAY that she’d ever let Harry off the Hook. She’d found her hero.
Ron and Hermione’s Bickerson’s routine was how they showed their attraction for each other as far back as the Hogwart’s Express when they were First Year’s. They each had strengths that Harry needed, and as they focused on him as the “Hero” of their little group (He WAS “The Boy Who Lived” after all so there HAD to be SOMETHING there) they came to realize that thay ALSO complimented EACH OTHER’s Strengths and Weaknesses.
Rowling only wrote them. Yes, that gives her some insight. But they LIVE, on and off the page, due to themselves,
Sorry, but until you’ve actually had people living ‘other lives’ inside your head you really can’t understand how Characters can come alive beyond what their creator had planned for them.
It can be QUITE disconcerting, trust me!
Kim Metzger Premium Member over 10 years ago
Vaguely remember a dream I had once where Mrs. Weasley used polyjuice potion to fill in for Ginny on a date with Harry when Ginny was sick. Didn’t want to think about what that might’ve been like.
cdward over 10 years ago
I agree with Leo Autodidact that the Harry/Hermione coupling would not have worked without rewriting from the beginning. Once you had that trio, it was going to wither be Ron and Hermione or none of them together. Or else Ron would’ve gotten killed. And thinking that Harry is so much brighter than Ron doesn’t really make sense ether. They had similar marks, both probably below their potential but neither truly an intellectual match for Hermione. Granted, we’re talking about fictional characters, but there has to be a certain flow in storytelling, and to me, a Harry/Hermione union would have felt awfully forced.
Aussie Down Under over 10 years ago
Roy has just had an epiphany. Welcome to married life.
3hourtour Premium Member over 10 years ago
…I can’t wait for The Harry Potter series to be fudged with as much as Star Wars…soon,both series will be changed to nothing but Legos…
Thomas Scott Roberts creator over 10 years ago
Hagrid pronounces it that way. Before the first movie came out, some readers were guessing ‘HER-mee-one’
invertedyesterday over 10 years ago
Poor Roy. You can’t know everything about the person you choose to be with. Just roll with it.
ladykat over 10 years ago
Sometimes people in books feel a lot more real than strangers a continent away – but then again, what do I know, I will disappear when the Red King wakes up
IQTech61 over 10 years ago
Here’s a thought: why was it inevitable that Hermione end up with Ron or Harry? How about her ending up with neither and finding a nice young man at a different school or – shocker – from the muggle world she came from?
Why did she have to end up with anyone at all?
I Quit over 10 years ago
A Harry/Hermione pairing would have been more natural. It would have totally destroyed the books, though, and I’m not sure there would have been any story to write. Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, zzzzzzzzz.
FigwitsMom over 10 years ago
Hermione is pronounced Her MY oh nee.
Bob. over 10 years ago
In The Music Man" the mayors wife was Hermione.
celeconecca over 10 years ago
It’s pronounced “her-my-oh-knee”. Remember, she told Viktor how to pronounce it.
I learned that a long time ago because I was fascinated by the musical GiGi and the songs in it, including “I Remember It Well”, sung by Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold. It was such an unusual name, that I went to thelibrary to find out when my parents didn’t know. The librarian thought I was asking about Hermione Baddley, the thin servant in Mary Poppins!
schaladresdan over 10 years ago
Also interesting is that I saw the name Hermione the Grange used for a cat working as a wizard’s familiar in reoccuring short stories. They were in the short story collections “Catfantastic”, which predate the Harry Potter series. I can’t remember the author’s name.
At the time I thought maybe Rowling had read one of these stories and liked the name, since her character’s last name was Granger. Maybe they both came from Shakespeare…
katina.cooper over 10 years ago
Still waiting for Kathy to tell Roy they’re having twins. Gee, I wonder what they could name them?