It’s just a function of time. The fact is, if you have a main character that you want married at the end, you need to do a shit ton of character development on their SO or it feels bad. Since romance is often secondary to the main plot (it’s an easy way to please the audience if the characters are already there), it’s…

What I’m getting from this is you wanted Hermione to end up with Krum.

In Harry Potter, at least, their psychology/sociology should be markedly different from those of modern-day adults. They come of age amidst an unescapable war that feels like it might end their world. Many of them were raised by parents who married fast because they also grew up in a sky-is-falling war environment.…

This. I get her point and agree to a certain extent. But the Wizarding world is a lot like a small town where people do marry their HS (and younger!) sweethearts as soon as they can. My mother’s family is from a very small town in Indiana (The ORIGINAL small town of Mellencamp fame!) and half my cousins married people…

Also, in the HP example, it’s a fact pretty well established in the books that the wizarding community is tightly knit, insular, and not actually all that huge. I think it would be weirder if they *didn’t* end up with someone we’d already met than that they did.

Out of curiosity, how unusual is it to marry a childhood friend if your community is very small? I’m thinking of the UK Wizarding community specifically, as pretty much all young wizards in the country attend the same school. Maybe quite a few will fall in love with someone from another country, someone significantly…

Let’s reduce this trope’s prevalence to how often it happens in real life.

On the one hand, I get it. Giving Harry a stable nuclear family to contrast the radioactive one he grew up with is a nice way to bring his story full circle and show that healing has begun. On the other hand, what about the chance that Harry would feel uncomfortable with the idea of a traditional family, since that’s…

This is quite possibly the least bothersome trope of all, to the point where I didn’t even recognize it as a trope.

Honestly, this is the first I’ve ever heard that childhood friends getting married is somehow strange. Most people I know think it’s sweet. How do I know this? I’ve been friends with my two oldest friends since kindergarten, and I was the one who officiated their wedding about a year ago. That’s right, two people who…

And here I thought he would have said "Immigrants we get the job done"

We almost didn't even get a baby though. He's already rolling over and crawling. At flipping 11 weeks. He's been able to pull himself up to a stand since 5 or 6 weeks, so walking is probably inevitable soon (not that I've baby proofed yet). He just came out of the womb more like a 4 month old than a newborn (even…

Yep. My dad owns a small business. During a downturn, he could no longer afford to pay his only full-time employee a fair wage and cover his health insurance (not even required by law), so he helped the guy find another job. My mom, his longtime business partner, pitched in a bit more until things picked up again. My…

OK that makes a lot more sense. Can I ask why you haven’t gotten out completely to do branded writing or something? That actually does pay really well.

Dontcha know you can’t imagine boning a guy over the interwebs without thinking about whether he can be a good imaginary father to your imaginary kids. This commenter killed my ladyboner.

And when countries don’t have monarchies they create their own “royal” families like the Kennedys or the noble house Kardashian to talk about. The moral of the story is that people like talking about stupid shit.

“What rubs me the wrong way as an actor and as somebody with a disability living in the real world is not that this story is being told. It’s that so frequently this is the only story of disability that is told.”

I’m actually going back through primary coverage from 2007 and 2008 and I’m curious to see how much of that comes up. Right now, mid-2007, I’m mainly surprised to see that John Edwards was still running for so long. It really was an eternity ago.