It looks like readers didn’t get this. They were overdosed on age-inappropriate romantic hopes or did not notice the gap between Harry’s idea and MacGonagal’s.
Is this the sort of thing you respond to by changing the chapters that are already out? The whole service thing will probably be explained in the next chapter anyway, along with Lucius’s “certain rights.”
Well, I mean that romance at eleven is inappropriate. I suggested marriage was seen because it would signal romance and signals of romance were desired because of hopes.
But thank you, Perry. If you hadn’t responded I would have answered the wrong question. I thought he misunderstood when I wrote about the gap between Harry’s marriage idea and MacGonagal’s fealty idea. And then maybe I would not have been clear enough again and there would have been more confusion and we might go on until one got fed up and both simply logged the other as ‘dense’ and left it at that.
Yeah, it would not have occurred to me that romance at age 11 is inappropriate, as I knew a lot of romantically-inclined people at age 11, and I tend to think of Wizarding Britain as a backwards, medieval society so “marriage at 11” doesn’t ring any alarm bells. Plus, 11ish-year-old characters have already talked at length about romance in the story.
It looks like readers didn’t get this. They were overdosed on age-inappropriate romantic hopes or did not notice the gap between Harry’s idea and MacGonagal’s.
Is this the sort of thing you respond to by changing the chapters that are already out? The whole service thing will probably be explained in the next chapter anyway, along with Lucius’s “certain rights.”
Waitwhat.
I did not think anyone thought Harry was marrying McGonagall. Or am I missing something here?
Marriage at eleven is inappropriate.
Aha. Missed the cultural context. Thanks!
Well, I mean that romance at eleven is inappropriate. I suggested marriage was seen because it would signal romance and signals of romance were desired because of hopes.
But thank you, Perry. If you hadn’t responded I would have answered the wrong question. I thought he misunderstood when I wrote about the gap between Harry’s marriage idea and MacGonagal’s fealty idea. And then maybe I would not have been clear enough again and there would have been more confusion and we might go on until one got fed up and both simply logged the other as ‘dense’ and left it at that.
Yeah, it would not have occurred to me that romance at age 11 is inappropriate, as I knew a lot of romantically-inclined people at age 11, and I tend to think of Wizarding Britain as a backwards, medieval society so “marriage at 11” doesn’t ring any alarm bells. Plus, 11ish-year-old characters have already talked at length about romance in the story.
Plus… polyjuice.