I love Harry Potter, for the most part, and I’m really happy that a welfare mom made good and all (actually, I’m ecstatic about that part, and I feel I must point out that a lot of our greatest writers have always had employment issues, to be, shall we say, “understated” about it {how else would they have time to write anything?}), but there’s a problem for me with the resolution of the series, and I doubt I’m the only one with an issue here, so I’ll just spill it: Harry Potter and Hermoine Granger were made for each other, and they should have wound up together! Maybe it was too obvious or something, but it’s just silly the way it’s written. (I would have almost preferred having Voldemort win! And actually, I would have understood her marrying Voldemort better: after all, he’s successful already. That’s what women want, right? Then she could have made peace between them, and maybe Harry could have served some evil vice-presidency function. And he still could have married the Weasley girl, as a second choice on the rebound.)
I mean, look: I’ll accept all the magic stuff, and all the fake animals and everything: I believe all that stuff well enough. And I’ll accept all the loose ends of plot, and all the other stuff that doesn’t quite make sense (like I did with Star Wars, where we always have to accept that “good” characters get to stay around forever, even if they’re dead, but that the great evil characters don’t get to glow like a black light poster in the afterlife), but you can take things too far to where it’s not believable anymore. And if you think Hermoine is going to settle for Ron Weasley after being made to order for Harry Potter, you’re nuts!
Hey, even sperm banks are kicking out the ginger stuff, so why would the best character in the series accept it? (Nothing personal, redheads: you’re fine with me!) It’s not even an issue of hair color, it’s an issue of identification: Harry and Hermoine are both talented outsiders disparaged by everyone who rise above anyway and support one another. How could they not fall in love? Maybe they avoid it at first because they don’t want to ruin the friendship thing, but they’d definitely avoid coupling up with another best friend from within the same circle of friends: it’s just common sense.
People are buzzing about the possibility of new Harry Potter books, and as far as I can see, the most reasonable plotline would be for Harry and Hermoine to realize that they married the wrong people and to finally get together. Then Ron can get together with “Moaning Myrtle”, or whoever else he’s earned. Besides, if she’s already named “Moaning Myrtle”, maybe she and Ron can help PeTA start their new porn site! Then we can be rid of these characters! Yay!
Actually, I don’t hate the Ron Weasley character: I was joking, and I also like the “Moaning Myrtle” character as well. I just don’t like Ron & Hermoine ending up as a couple, when they’re really not suited at all. For the whole time, I thought Hermoine was being made to order as Harry’s love interest, and when it didn’t happen, it took me out of the stories. Maybe she (the author) didn’t want to be too predictable, but it just feels unsatisfying to me. But her love life hadn’t worked out when she was writing the stories, so maybe she threw that into the plot; and if so, maybe that makes it better: I don’t know. It’s just unsatisfying to me personally, like when Richard Dreyfuss wasn’t eaten by the shark in Jaws: he was just right there, looking delicious, but the shark forgot about him? Ridiculous!
Maybe it’s just that I like the bookish nerdette types, and that they don’t get enough credit. Why isn’t she good enough for Harry? She does all his homework for him it seems like. Oh, but maybe he loses respect for her? Is that it? She’s “too nice”? Well, it’s about time a girl suffered for that quality, rather than it always being a guy who gets dumped for it. Maybe that’ll teach everyone to be a jerk, like they ought to be!
Actually I was kind of hoping that Draco Malfoy, once his father was killed*, would finally admit that he could never be his true self with his parents around, and finally come out of the closet and pair up with Ron Weasley: then the Weasleys could have combined the magic of their respective families for good purposes, rather than just have all that good evil stuff (Malfoy’s family magic, that is) wasted like that. I mean, come on: dimensional animated tattoos? That’s the next big boom market for muggles!
* (Oh, but he wasn’t killed, was he? That’s another issue, isn’t it? He’s like a Nazi war criminal escaping to South America or something: it just doesn’t sit right in the end. Maybe he’s got lots of baby Voldemorts out there like in The Boys from Brazil. Hey, you never know! Maybe that’s what the new books will be about!)
BTW: I know this is hardly new, but I reminded of it by the following article:
And here’s the story about that heinous sperm bank prejudice:
