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Add to FavoritesAlthough the Harry Potter series is a child's series the characters become young adults, and we all know that when you become a teenager, deep into puberty you have needs. It seems strange to think that Harry and his friends don't get partners, wizards and witches or not. I'm not saying that they should start having sex, but this is the age that it is important to start looking for relationships and looking for acceptance, and more often than not kids look for this in adolescent relationships. The realism that they have friends in their circle just doesn't cut it. Kids their age need to start dating. Can you think back to when you were a kid, what you were doing at fifteen, sixteen and seventeen. I can tell you what I was doing and it didn't really include a lot of studying. And obviously, neither are they, but they aren't skipping study hall to go make out.
The stories would be more connected to the reader if there was love. This is one thing that the reader could relate to, the hardships and fruitfulness of young love. I'm sure that it is not the easiest thing in the world to relate to magic spells and three headed dogs but the story would have great correlation with the adolescents if only there was love in the mixture of action. What's a good story without a little relation? This is the age of the reader that they are finding there little crushes and blossoming romances. Adding love is a great bonding possibility with the characters and reader.
Now that Twilight has taken the nation by force it is important to add a little of that pizzazz that that particular book had and add the spice to her recipe. I'm not saying make Harry's girlfriend's name Bella but I am saying take that as inspiration to add a little wham wham to the story. Twilight is being compared to Harry Potter often and of course Harry Potter stands strong against the adored story involving love and hot vampires but for how long? Not very, something unquestionably needs to zing it up, and what could be better than love?
This would also make the movies even more appetizing to watch. I eventually get tired of the same old song and dance with spells and crashes, then hospital visits and the fights with friends. Why not a fight between lovers? Adding romance would be a fantastic idea, as long as we keep it PG-13 of course. We have to remember that although these are children's books and movies, they aren't the only humans [[and wizards]] that watch them so why not change them up a bit? Seeing a tasteful amount of the nasty in a Harry Potter movie or reading about a juicy kiss in a J.K. Rowling novel just leaves me with a tingly feeling, and that my friend is the feeling of satisfaction from a good book or movie. I really do hope that she develops a relationship in her next novel. I believe that this would certainly progress the eminence of her stories and keep her in the running for most treasured series.
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The Harry Potter books are my favorite and, frankly, I believe they are perfect the way they are. There is just the right amount of romance in the story."Just the right amount" meaning that there is enough romance without it being too inappropriate. After all, kids of all ages read the stories. Children's stories don't have that kind of affection in them. Thank goodness!
J.K. Rowling put the exact amount of romance in the stories that needed to be in there. We didn't want there to be no romance, that would make everything seem a little boring. But if there was too much romance then it would interfere with the story that really needed to be told. The story of how Harry Potter, the boy who lived, needs to rid the world of the ultimate evil: Voldemort? Does anybody remember that story? If there was all that romance then the main story would be forgotten and it would end up being a biography of the character's lives. That wouldn't be as boring as it sounds, but why mess with perfection?
I'm sure she knew what she was doing, those years when she started writing Harry Potter. She knew that kids would like to read her stories because don't all kids like to play witches and wizards? She even did so when she was younger. Even though the series has grown gradually darker in the later books, the kids have grown with them. There isn't that much affection that we need to call them adult novels. Just because adults read them too doesn't mean they should forget about the other end of the audience. The end filled with children playing witches and wizards. People of all ages and of all nationalities reads the Harry Potter books. J.K. Rowling, although she didn't know her book was going to be as popular as it is, must have known to tell the story to the general audience of everybody.
Recently the Harry Potter books have been taken off the bestseller list for the first time in a decade. What does that tell everybody? That the Harry Potter books are fine and shouldn't have the characters be more romantically involved? Harry Potter, after all, isn't an adult novel. If you want more romancially involved characters then read some books for adults.
Don't add more romance to the Harry Potter series. Don't change an already perfect book. Let them remain they way they are because if the book was anything other than what it is, would the world love them as much? If there was more affection in the series, would the books be worshiped as they are now? I don't think that they would be. Do everyone a favor and let the Harry Potter books remain as they are: perfect, loved by all ages, and not as romantic as some people think they should be.
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