ill but happy
Mar. 4th, 2004 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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JKR must have known that I wasn't feeling well, because this just about makes me feel almost human again. The JOY!
Of course I'm talking about this in particular:
Chibimono: Do you have any future plans in particular for Draco Malfoy?
JKR: I've got plans for all my characters. Actually, this is a really good place to answer a question about Draco and Hermione, which a certain Ms. Radcliffe is desperate to have answered. Will they end up together in book six/seven? NO! The trouble is, of course, that girls fancy Tom Felton, but Draco is NOT Tom Felton! (My daughter likes TF very much too, because he taught her how to use a diablo)
I think I'm pretty open-minded, and tolerant of most ships, even if I don't understand some of them. To each his own, variety is the spice of life, and all that. But there is one ship in all the land that makes every fiber of my being cringe, and that is D/Hr. So for JKR to utterly denounce it -- and completely out of context, no less (she wasn't even asked about D/Hr! Seems she wanted to take the least opportunity to kill it) -- makes me want to do Numfar's Dance of Joy. What a nice treat for those of us (I think there's 12? <--- I was wrong, there's 17 of us! Whooooo) who have "hating Draco/Hermione" in our interests. That has well and truly been paid off.
I really like the idea that "Ginny" is not short for anything. That her name is simply Ginny. However, now I hope for her sake, with a middle name like Molly, that she does actually have a longer first name. Ginny Molly? Good God.
And how do these people find out where JKR is going to be and get to ask her questions????? For once, I'd like to see a chat with her that doesn't include something like If Hagrid was a real person and came to your house, what would you cook him for dinner? and instead asked her about, I don't know, the direction of Draco's character, or, once and for all, what Ginny's full name is.
And WTF is a diablo?
Of course I'm talking about this in particular:
Chibimono: Do you have any future plans in particular for Draco Malfoy?
JKR: I've got plans for all my characters. Actually, this is a really good place to answer a question about Draco and Hermione, which a certain Ms. Radcliffe is desperate to have answered. Will they end up together in book six/seven? NO! The trouble is, of course, that girls fancy Tom Felton, but Draco is NOT Tom Felton! (My daughter likes TF very much too, because he taught her how to use a diablo)
I think I'm pretty open-minded, and tolerant of most ships, even if I don't understand some of them. To each his own, variety is the spice of life, and all that. But there is one ship in all the land that makes every fiber of my being cringe, and that is D/Hr. So for JKR to utterly denounce it -- and completely out of context, no less (she wasn't even asked about D/Hr! Seems she wanted to take the least opportunity to kill it) -- makes me want to do Numfar's Dance of Joy. What a nice treat for those of us (I think there's 12? <--- I was wrong, there's 17 of us! Whooooo) who have "hating Draco/Hermione" in our interests. That has well and truly been paid off.
I really like the idea that "Ginny" is not short for anything. That her name is simply Ginny. However, now I hope for her sake, with a middle name like Molly, that she does actually have a longer first name. Ginny Molly? Good God.
And how do these people find out where JKR is going to be and get to ask her questions????? For once, I'd like to see a chat with her that doesn't include something like If Hagrid was a real person and came to your house, what would you cook him for dinner? and instead asked her about, I don't know, the direction of Draco's character, or, once and for all, what Ginny's full name is.
And WTF is a diablo?
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Date: 2004-03-04 11:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-04 11:46 pm (UTC)Thanks for the link! That clears things up. I studied in England one summer and I can't say I ever ran across one of these during that time ... but maybe that was too long ago.
Now the question is, why can't TF teach me how to use one? :D
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Date: 2004-03-05 12:02 am (UTC)OH OH OH, while I was in England I was at this campsite, and the guys in the site next to us enjoyed playing around with their diabolo all the time. Oh. My. Goodness. They all surpassed TF on the hotness scale, and their accents were dead sexy... *swoons* If only I could have captured one of them, stuffed him in my suitcase, and taken him home with me.