[ SECRET POST #4043 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4043 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

To be honest, as unsmooth as the romances in HP were, I don't think they can be used as evidence that she sucks at romance. She was (largely) writing about teens, and teen relationships are always messy. and further than that she was writing, not primarily for an audience of children and teens, but definitely had to write all that in a way that would be okay for them (and there absolutely is a set of widely-accepted guidelines on this in the publishing industry), so she couldn't exactly...~make it real, if ya know what I mean.

I haven't read any of her other work but I understand they were for an adult audience, so I kinda have to try them to see how she can do romance without any blocks.

[(Anonymous)]

I personally get the feeling that it's not that Rowling can't write romance, but by the time romance actually happened in the books, people had had years of shipping under their belts. Theorising, reading fanfics and so on, so there was no way that all expectations were going to be met, whether a person's preferred ships happened or not. Ditto for the ending.

[(Anonymous)]

So, which romance do you think she wrote well, and why?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's the romance that happened, but the romance that didn't. Rowling turned me from a Harry/Ginny shipper pre book 4 to an anti-shipper. Book 5 just...stopped describing Ginny as a person, and started describing second hand accounts of the amazing things she did instead. And this is a couple Harry was actually there for. None of the couples actually seem like they like each other because Harry's so busy with his stuff he only takes notice when people fight, which is understandable, but it makes the random "romance" scattered about mostly feels negative instead of positive.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, 'all was well' and a monster in your chest was actually really good writing; and only clinging desperately to failed theories and headcanons could explain any disatisfaction.