Fandom Problems

I’ll be the first to admit it. I’m a fangirl. I get really wrapped up in the movies/tv/books that I like.

This week I was really intrigued by J.K. Rowling’s revelation that she wished that she hadn’t put Hermione and Ron together. The fandom exploded. Some were disturbed…after all, she can’t go back and change it now.

https://twitter.com/realjohngreen/status/429797089569439744

John Green had an interesting perspective on it. The Harry Potter books are done now and the fans are what keeps them alive. Harry Potter has inspired a lot of fanmade work from music (wizard rock), to crafts, a real life sport (Quidditch), and creative writing projects (fanfiction-including the popular Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality). To say that J.K. Rowling is the only one who created the culture of Harry Potter would be a complete disregard for the love and passion that fans have fueled into the fandom over the years.

However, we as fans have changed our minds about the Harry Potter cannon several times over. There are after all, people out there who ship Hermione with Snape, or with Draco, or pretty much any character you can imagine. Why can’t J.K. Rowling do the same? If anything, I’m kind of happy that J.K. Rowling is looking back on the amazing books that she wrote and considering them in a new light. Heck, if J.K. Rowling tweeted tomorrow “Jk! Fred’s not really dead!” I would be jumping on that bandwagon without a second thought.

We Harry Potter nerds shouldn’t be so disturbed by J.K. Rowling’s post-Harry Potter revelations. If anything, we should be happy that this amazing writer gives us insight into her process. But really, we all know J.K. Rowling is just trollin’ us, right?