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Who Harry's Snogging / Harry Potter "Fan" Fiction Not So Much a Fan of Ginny

Good lord. I understand some people being upset by the plot turns in HP6, but this is asinine:

Watley Review - Page Three: "'Rowling actually said in a recent interview that she felt the romantic arc of her characters was 'obvious,' fumed Pembroke. 'Excuse me, but I don't need her to tell me about who should pair up with whom.' Pembroke's version involves a new romance for Harry with an exchange student from America whose physical description is remarkably close to the picture on her website. The new character, who rapidly rises to the top of her class, has a mysterious scar on her forehead similar to Harry's famous lightning bolt. She is also an 'animagus' who can assume the form of a talking winged unicorn."

Of course you need her to tell you who should pair up with whom... she's the freakin' author. Unfortunately, when you do a decent job of making a world, people tend to believe in that world. I doubt very much whether this "new" version of the book would do anything to hurt sales of the real thing, but it looks as if the publishers don't care. They have to protect their precious copyright. Frankly, they'd do better ignoring her altogether. Drawing attention to her will do nothing but pour money out of the pockets of the publisher that could be better spent elsewhere (like, on authors nobody cares to re-write) and pour gasoline on the fanfic fire. Can I just say here that of course those relationships were telegraphed long ago? I had Ginny paired up with Harry since her appearance in the Chamber of Secrets. Who did not see that coming? And the Ron & Hermione pair is just too darned obvious, especially given their reactions to dating other people on the Goblet of Fire. The real trouble, of course, is that we didn't really spend enough time watching the relationships develop in HP6. One of the weaknesses of all the HP books, to me, is the lack of development of almost all the relationships. We are simply told most everything about how people do and don't like or don't like one another. And that's a bit frustrating, especially by book 6, wherein we expect a little more depth to our hearts. Still, if you use the word "snogging" often enough, it hardly matters.

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