yeah, he said so around when he was filming book 5 that they had a special relationship
http://www.hpana.com/news.19721.html
and oh my god ryu you get so offended over every little thing.
Nope, your internet mind reading powers are not functioning, for I was in no way offended when I wrote my little jab back about your poor use of 'No U.' Maybe you've mistuned your tinfoil hat antennae?
everyone knows that no u is the ultimate argument in a debate. it is in no way actually related to you. stop bawwwing and grow a pair bro
Pot, Kettle, Black, Aki.
As for 'No U' being the ultimate argument, I apparently missed the memo that debates were now just a variation of Rock Paper Scissors where Hydrogen Bomb beats the other three. Silly me, I thought you still had to make cogent points in an argument. What WAS I thinking.
Anyways, it's all moot, because Grangersnape is the best pairing ever and that's that.
Normal timeline or time travel versions? And which is creepier?
oh and on topic blah blah cloti clerith canon wat
For the record, if this tangent continues much longer, I WILL be splitting it into its own thread, to forestall any of the bawwing that happened last time
TBH, even though I saw H/G since book 5 - even though I didn't ship anything in HP - I think the pairing sucks because it exists in some way in Rowling's head and she is NOT describing how awesome it is in her head, but rather skips what can make it interesting.
The foundation of their inevitable pairing was laid down as early as the first book, but yes, Rowling absolutely stunk at depicting it in any readable fashion.
As for Ron and Hermione, obvious pair was obvious, and may I add, actually very akin to how stupid teenagers in love are - the whole "I love you me neither" is a prime example.
As they are two stupid teenagers in love, it's more than merely 'akin.' It is.
I still say the most interesting thing in HP was the world, some characters and the plot. But it always looked to me that the "love" aspect of the plot felt forced and thus, not interesting.
The interesting thing about the world is how it hasn't collapsed in on itself yet. IIRC, more people attend UNC than there are wizards in Britain. There are more students in a few square miles on any given day in my city than there are in all of London, or even England.
See, I just wanted to see Ginny do something strong and cool so that we could see 'oh yeah, Harry likes her because of how awesome she is'. Not just flying her broom into a commentator cause she disagrees with him. Like actually defending a friend from someone picking on them, like chewing out some bullies picking on Luna. Then I could see why it'd be a lasting pairing, not just 'Harry think girl pretty, get mad when she kiss other boys!' mentality that was the chest monster in HBP.
Basically, I tend to think relationships based off of possessiveness and rampant jealousy tend to not last terribly long because it's based off of the drama of having a particular girl/boy. We actually see Ron and Hermione getting over their insane jealousy for each others relationships to get together in the end. With Harry and Ginny we get firewhiskey kisses because she's worried he'll hook up with some other girl on his journey and he doesn't even offer words of sympathy cause one of her closest siblings dies at the end.
Maybe it's just me, but a lot of Harry/Ginny seems to revolve around HARRY!HARRY!HARRY! and Ginny has to stand back to the point that we never get to see her do anything awesome.
The books as a whole revolve around HARRY!HARRY!HARRY! and not just because it's a POV book.
The way the whole love/ships evolved in HP I always thought JKR just hated shippers and thought she could end the debates by saying without a doubt who's with who.
Sadly no one told her how shippers work.
And that you need to stake 'em, behead 'em, and burn 'em to keep them down.
