I think it's yet another manifestation of JK Rowling's own life becoming The Way Things Are in her books. After all, didn't she change her life completely during her first marriage by leaving Briton and following him overseas? And didn't it end badly when he turned out not to be what she'd thought, and she was left alone with no money and a child to raise?
And what do we have in Harry Potter but a succession of people who change their lives, either for good or ill, by falling in love? Dumbledore the quasi-Nazi...Snape the weepy virgin heroic spy...Tonks the blithering eratomaniac tragic mother...James the inexplicably changed idiot loving father and husband...the list goes on and on. For JK Rowling, the Power of Love is inextricably bound up in One True Love Who Changes Your Life, usually when you're a teenager.
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Date: 2008-03-09 09:25 pm (UTC)I think it's yet another manifestation of JK Rowling's own life becoming The Way Things Are in her books. After all, didn't she change her life completely during her first marriage by leaving Briton and following him overseas? And didn't it end badly when he turned out not to be what she'd thought, and she was left alone with no money and a child to raise?
And what do we have in Harry Potter but a succession of people who change their lives, either for good or ill, by falling in love? Dumbledore the quasi-Nazi...Snape the
weepy virginheroic spy...Tonks theblithering eratomaniactragic mother...James theinexplicably changed idiotloving father and husband...the list goes on and on. For JK Rowling, the Power of Love is inextricably bound up in One True Love Who Changes Your Life, usually when you're a teenager.