[ SECRET POST #1747 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1747 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 13 pages, 316 secrets from Secret Submission Post #250.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[lemon-m.livejournal.com]

Seriously now, how many fans would have been genuinely happy that at the end the characters end up with random characters that they were not invested in and only know the name of? How much of the target audience would have been like, omg I love Rowling! She is so realistic!

As an author I wouldn't want to pair my characters off with people I couldn't develop in the story because it just feels like short-changing the audience. Showing character relationships and how these people affected each others' lives during the hard times they lived through is the trade-off I'd take (and prefer to see)for realism. I'm not saying that Rowling did an amazing job with relationships, but seriously now.

[eerised-da.livejournal.com]

I think the only thing I can say is realistic is that the bonds formed during the war would potentially make romance stronger. But Harry pushed Ginny away too much for me to really apply that to them. Ron and Hermione definitely. But Harry and Ginny--but it was always superficial and very bland to me. Probably because Rowling wrote Ginny specifically to be Harry's love interest.

[lemon-m.livejournal.com]

I think the only thing I can say is realistic is that the bonds formed during the war would potentially make romance stronger

I definitely believe that, but that point is more open to interpretation and what the reader thinks would happen to a person after going through such an event. That's why I think it comes down to story-telling license what the author chooses to do with relationships. Post-war romances can be researched, but since we're talking about fictional characters, it mostly comes down to what the author wants to express in their story.

Haha, I'm really not saying Rowling did wonderfully. Mostly, she did pretty bad (I didn't like Harry/Ginny either), but that an author chooses to only pair cast characters is a complaint I see a lot (mostly aimed at fantasy kids/teens series, for some reason), and it makes me go, Umm, really? The way the romances are written is definitely up for criticism, but it's most likely just bad writing, not that the author seriously believes that is how relationships go, or some subconscious... trauma, or something.

[eerised-da.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, I know all about what authors choose to do versus what should/would happen. I love the series and I think the romance aspect is easy to disregard since it's really not blatant until the sixth book anyhow.

As a writer, I agree that it'd be hard to introduce new characters at the very end. I don't think it was a bad move necessarily, but I don't think it was good either. And I agree that post-war, bonds aren't necessarily going to be love. It might be that Harry and Ginny came to agree to just be friends, but it was a very close friendship. Hell, I always found more evidence to Luna and Harry than Ginny and Harry. Luna seemed to see Harry, not the celebrity she'd crushed on since shew as a young girl. I think that's also what bothers me about Harry and Ginny. It never seemed really real, as far as the romance of it went.

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

All of this, exactly. You've summed it up so well. Good storytelling should not be sacrificed for the sake of realism.
It's sometimes a trade off and it's up to the author which one they want to favor more strongly, but I certainly don't think it's an author's fault that they wrote something a little unrealistic because it feels better from the perspective of the story being told.

[writerserenyty.livejournal.com]

+1 I agree with this comment.

[copper-dimes.livejournal.com]

Exactly. People pair younger characters off with each other in both canon and fandom and keep them together forever all the time because we know and love them. If these were real people, I'd be a little uncomfortable with everyone marrying and staying together with his or her sweetheart from when they were 13 or whatever until they were old and grey, but this is fiction, and I'd rather read and imagine what might happen to Ron and Hermione than Ron and Random-Chick-Whom-I've-Never-Before.

[haro.livejournal.com]

+1