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Time Turners to the rescue????
Feb. 1st, 2014 05:31 pmWow. That's hilarious. JKR attempting to rewrite her HP characters' relationships retroactively. As if that hasn't been the entire point of fanfiction for the past N years.
If only there were better Booleans for fanfic searches in the beginning, then she'd have known not to pair *anyone* with a Weasley just by looking for the most common search stats. There was never a NOT flag in any of the big sites' searches. AO3 has one now though. I'd have been looking for m/f -weasley -ofc -rpf -m/m.... (Actually that's pretty close to my Avengers search string now. It really cuts down on the amount of time it takes to keep up on because something close to 95% of the Avengers fic seems to be the most ludicrous m/m relationship onset I've ever read.)
I hated reading about Hermione being with Ron. I hated Ginny. (Seriously, who lets attempted murder slide without ever mentioning it again? And I'd NEVER share a room with someone who tried to kill me and wasn't fucking sorry. That was insane of Hermione to even agree to visit the Weasley house.)
The whole thing about the Weasleys being there at the train station in the first book smacked of a setup by evil!Dumbledore. That's actually the bit of essaying that convinced me that who we can know in the future is manipulated by who we know now. I know that I have friends who I can't mix socially. So the more I like one group of friends, the less time I spend with the others. And the more influence they have, which makes the exiled friends less tolerable. I don't think I'm transparent about it either, I think everyone can tell. But Dumbledore controlled Harry by how he was introduced to other wizards. I assumed that Harry being married to Ginny was another step on the ladder of making sure that Harry never strayed from the path he'd been groomed for.
But there are millions and millions of pages written re-examining the idiotic relationship decisions JKR made in her books. Details are ripped apart and reassembled. And finally things are temporarily put right if you read the right fic.
Now JKR wants to say that she was wrong in the books. Um. yes. We knew that. We lost a LOT of respect for you for it. We don't think you knew what you were doing. That's why we spent all the time fixing it. We're glad we talked you into our way of thinking. Maybe you could share what fic convinced you.
If only there were better Booleans for fanfic searches in the beginning, then she'd have known not to pair *anyone* with a Weasley just by looking for the most common search stats. There was never a NOT flag in any of the big sites' searches. AO3 has one now though. I'd have been looking for m/f -weasley -ofc -rpf -m/m.... (Actually that's pretty close to my Avengers search string now. It really cuts down on the amount of time it takes to keep up on because something close to 95% of the Avengers fic seems to be the most ludicrous m/m relationship onset I've ever read.)
I hated reading about Hermione being with Ron. I hated Ginny. (Seriously, who lets attempted murder slide without ever mentioning it again? And I'd NEVER share a room with someone who tried to kill me and wasn't fucking sorry. That was insane of Hermione to even agree to visit the Weasley house.)
The whole thing about the Weasleys being there at the train station in the first book smacked of a setup by evil!Dumbledore. That's actually the bit of essaying that convinced me that who we can know in the future is manipulated by who we know now. I know that I have friends who I can't mix socially. So the more I like one group of friends, the less time I spend with the others. And the more influence they have, which makes the exiled friends less tolerable. I don't think I'm transparent about it either, I think everyone can tell. But Dumbledore controlled Harry by how he was introduced to other wizards. I assumed that Harry being married to Ginny was another step on the ladder of making sure that Harry never strayed from the path he'd been groomed for.
But there are millions and millions of pages written re-examining the idiotic relationship decisions JKR made in her books. Details are ripped apart and reassembled. And finally things are temporarily put right if you read the right fic.
Now JKR wants to say that she was wrong in the books. Um. yes. We knew that. We lost a LOT of respect for you for it. We don't think you knew what you were doing. That's why we spent all the time fixing it. We're glad we talked you into our way of thinking. Maybe you could share what fic convinced you.
