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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-07-02 06:36 pm

[ SECRET POST #2008 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2008 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2012-07-02 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
So much this. Maybe if it was just one teenage romance that grew into marriage, but there were so many endgame pairings... I wish Harry had married some unknown Muggle, but that would have caused an uproar in fandom.

(Anonymous) 2012-07-02 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

Yeah, I get why JKR did it. I mean, if they had all ended up marrying people that they didn't go to school with, or at least different people from their school it would have been more realistic but you would have had all these people going "What the Christ is this shit? Why is Harry Potter with some woman named [whatever]. FUCK YOU ROWLING WHY HAVE YOU BETRAYED ME". It's just easier to stick them with people familiar to the audience. Honestly, I just wish there hadn't been an epilogue at all and people could have thought they all married whoever the hell wanted them to marry.

On the other hand though, Draco and Percy got to marry random people, when it would have been easier to just say that Percy got with Penny and Draco ended up with Pansy or whatever. And Neville ended up with Hannah Abott, which I didn't see coming but I actually like.

(Anonymous) 2012-07-03 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Seriously speaking, why did you (you in particular or anyone reading the thread) think that JKR wrote the Epilogue? Was she truly that sick of the shippers being extremists and wanted to get back at them?

It really would have been better to leave out the Epilogue. Maybe mention how weeks later or something Harry's scar didn't hurt and everyone was working together to rebuild and years later things were peaceful.

I kind sort of see the need to make things come full-circle, but it wasn't necessary to get so detailed with the spouses and children and so on.

(Anonymous) 2012-07-03 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
ayrt

Yeah, I think she just really didn't want to leave any loose ends. The woman was done writing Harry Potter and I guess she wanted to make that clear. And if she hadn't written an epilogue, there just would have been a ton of people being like "But who did they marry? Did Harry have children? WHY DIDN'T YOU WRITE A FREAKING EPILOGUE OR SOMETHING??" and of course, the epilogue she did write just didn't satisfy a lot of people (including me). The woman couldn't have won either way.

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[personal profile] badass_tiger 2012-07-03 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
ia about the last part in particular. I've seen a lot of 'Why did Neville marry Hannah and not Luna?!' but I liked that a lot. It shows that Neville grew up enough to branch out in social circles and make friends different from the Golden Trio. And JKR herself said that Luna is too weird for Neville. Not that Neville couldn't appreciate her weirdness or whatever, but just because that's not for him. I agree, and people can ship whatever they want, but that's canon.