I like the HP books because they're great books for older kids which the author has had the tremendous foresight to put in some decent fanservice for older readers. If my ship gets sunk in the next book (and chances are, it probably will: I wear no rose-tinted glasses for the fate of a ship portrayed so ambiguously as R/T) I probably won't be too upset, because it is, after all, JKR's books and she may do what she bloody well pleases with them. To call her the things I've heard her called in the aftermath of HBP because my ship has been sunk (many of which are far too foul to put into print again) would be disrespectful and in poor taste. There are always going to be the semantics that might not impress people (as you mentioned in the post about Lupin's middle name) but those are the sort of things that don't necessarily affect the plot whatsoever.
My line in the sand, therefore, is probably a fairly ambiguous one, for I don't hold any fluffy notions of romance or expectations of people to actually stick it out. After almost a year of planning my WIP, I didn't even like the idea of R/T together at the end so I had them break up. I think that rather than having my shipping plans dashed, I'd probably see how people came to their conclusions about the reasoning to be more worrisome than the ship itself.
Ps. I apologise for intruding into your journal, and I hope that this clarifies my position. I certainly don't intend to be rude by doing so, though I do appreciate that personal LJs are certainly a private domain of their owners.
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I like the HP books because they're great books for older kids which the author has had the tremendous foresight to put in some decent fanservice for older readers. If my ship gets sunk in the next book (and chances are, it probably will: I wear no rose-tinted glasses for the fate of a ship portrayed so ambiguously as R/T) I probably won't be too upset, because it is, after all, JKR's books and she may do what she bloody well pleases with them. To call her the things I've heard her called in the aftermath of HBP because my ship has been sunk (many of which are far too foul to put into print again) would be disrespectful and in poor taste. There are always going to be the semantics that might not impress people (as you mentioned in the post about Lupin's middle name) but those are the sort of things that don't necessarily affect the plot whatsoever.
My line in the sand, therefore, is probably a fairly ambiguous one, for I don't hold any fluffy notions of romance or expectations of people to actually stick it out. After almost a year of planning my WIP, I didn't even like the idea of R/T together at the end so I had them break up. I think that rather than having my shipping plans dashed, I'd probably see how people came to their conclusions about the reasoning to be more worrisome than the ship itself.
Ps. I apologise for intruding into your journal, and I hope that this clarifies my position. I certainly don't intend to be rude by doing so, though I do appreciate that personal LJs are certainly a private domain of their owners.