Since J. Rowling hasn't revealed in an interview recently (of which I know) that she recants writing Harry/Ginny and should have paired him with Hermione I guess this must be a birthday message. :-)
And so it is. Best wishes for a very happy birthday to ken_schneyer! We don't see each other much on LJ nowadays, Ken, but I do enjoy reading of your continuing success with your original fiction.
It's like this at this time every year ... I have to work out all over again how to insert images in my posts. :-)
Anyway, as part reciprocation for all of the (animated!) animals she's shown us over the past year, here are two creatures wishing girlspell a Happy Birthday:
They're not cute kittens, rolling sharks or killer whales ... in fact, I don't know what they are ... but I hope they'll suffice. :-)
Usually it takes me a while to take the covers off my blog, blow off the dust and clear the cobwebs, but for some reason I find that my online activity has had a rush of activity the last few days, my livejournal engine already warmed up and purring. Hmmm. I wonder why? :-)
Anyway, best wishes for a happy birthday to ken_schneyer! I hope you have/had a great birthday.
Well, I guess today wasn't a good day to try and get any work done ... :-)
Around mid-morning my IN box started showing unusual activity. J.K. Rowling regrets Ron and Hermione’s relationship!! and other headlines start appearing. Oodles of HP H/Hr fans come out of their 'retirement' to post the news (great to see them again! There's nothing like a page of colourful H/Hr icons; I think I imprinted on them back when I first got involved with the fandom. :-)). My LJ Friends page full of posts glorying in the news that Rowling has decided that her prized Ron/Hermione pairing was not 'credible' and wouldn't work; that "Hermione should have wed Harry".
Well, right now I imagine Steve Kloves is in a hidden cellar brushing the dust off a box labelled "SECRET HARRY/HERMIONE FILM FOOTAGE". The movie folk went absolutely as far as they could with H/Hr - given that they had to stick to the canon - short of stashing the redheads in a rocket and shooting them into the sun. Now that Rowling has (hopefully - pending that H/G thing) given them the green light, can a new DH ending and epilogue be very far away? :-)