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Add to FavoritesWhen I saw this debate I was almost enraged. Not because of its subject but because of idea of someone saying no to the question itself. Yet when I saw that all articles were "yes" so far I sigh of relief. What could you possibly say against romance in Harry Potter? Well I know what can be said for it.
Saying no, the characters in the Harry Potters series should not become more romantically involved it like telling them their not aloud growing up. JK Rowling did an excellent job showing Harry Potter's life and influences. Showing the choices he had, the decisions he made and the change it caused within him. This is what caused me to fall in love with the Harry Potter's characters. Through the books we see them grow older or stronger and learn from each other. Love is only one of their many lessons.
When reading "the characters in the Harry Potters series to become more romantically involved, I think of the characters growing closer, perhaps a certain unofficial couple finally admitting to their feelings and the idea arising that pushing love away to protect someone will only hurt more. I do not think of sex. Be honest with your selves would JK Rowling write about sex in a Harry Potter book?
Love has always been a major theme in the series. A love conquers all sort of idea was thrown out more than once. I believe the last book will be surrounded in the idea. But sex? The books barely states when Harry kissed Cho and the worse that was described was Ron locked onto Lavender. Perhaps sex would enter the final book, but I think it would be more of a suggestion that it might have happened with no real words with in the book stating so. I think this question should have been clearer.
As for Harry, does he not deserve happiness? Yes he has Ron, who will run into battle with him even if it is against hundreds of gigantic hairy spiders, and Hermione, who would help him knowing his heart is pure and ideals are the same as hers. What I mean is the happiness that was taken from him as a child when his parents died. The happiness that he had for only a few years when Sirius was alive and his acting guardian. Something you can get only from family and not friends. Grant it Harry's family has been his friends since entering Hogwarts, but he deserves more. I believe he will get it in the end.
The fact remains that the series itself, whether it was planned from the beginning, was based on the strength love has against evil; the idea that evil can not understand and therefore can not defeat love. What better way to defeat Voldemort than using the same power that originally stumped him in the beginning.
So if by asking "Should JK Rowling allow the characters in the Harry Potters series to become more romantically involved?" you mean grow closer and show their emotions more openly, then I do not think there is any "allow" about it. It must be done and will be done.
I myself am writing a novel and if you try it you will learn that you may have a million ideas, plans and hopeful endings, but once the book gets started, it goes its own way and no matter what you do it will not work if you try to change it.
JK Rowling said herself in one of her many interview that in the seventh book two main characters die and one she did not want to kill. She tried and tried, but could not work around it. It is the same here. You can not take romance out of the book when it's played such a major part. Harry Potter will always be a children's series, but it is one of great lessons showing the full aspect of live. Including romance and love.
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The characters in Harry Potter are products of the overall suspense provided by author JK Rowling since Book 1. The very idea that there should be even more romantic tension is ludicrous. The Harry Potter books are set up in such a way that the romantic tension is present beginning about Goblet of Fire and reaching its optimum conclusion with Deathly Hallows; the movies set up the tension from the beginning, but that's a different story altogether.
Why would there be any more reason for the characters to be romantically involved? This isn't some cheap "chick flick," it is a continuing story of one boy's heroic journey. There is not a shred of evidence that any respectable critic of family literature would ever want the Harry Potter series to delve into the daydreams of vapid people. This isn't a book for particular demographic, but rather a transcendent piece of art that can appeal to everyone.
Limiting the scope of the Harry Potter series into episodes of forbidden love is simply inane. Harry and Ginny, Ron and Hermione and the rest of the characters all have particular reasons in their respective arcs to not be bogged down by such wishes of bliss. Rowling provides the right balance of action, mystery and romance throughout the series, so the very notion that there needs to be more involvement is not needed in the slightest. Furthermore, there is credence in the fact that the books were set up from the beginning is such a way that there truly would not need to so much romantic side story to fill up a bulk of the books.
As for Dumbledore, it was revealed by Rowling for having feelings toward Grindelwald. Would the readers truly be keen on exploring that relationship? I somehow suspect that if that was the locus of the Harry Potter series there would be an enormous outpour of negative feelings towards the characters; it would probably be the most banned book of all time if that was the case.
Rowling gives her readers the proper amount of romantic involvement throughout the series. Starting from Goblet of Fire on, there is enough to be found in the books for a satisfactory climax, in terms of romanticism. Why would there need to be so much more than is already contained within the stories? It really does not make any sense to add the already rich plot without adding more lust than there is contained. Adding more nonsense, subplots of endless romantic action would simply move the focus of the story away from the characters, but instead to their escapades. It would ruin a perfectly beautiful book series.
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