We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight.
Watson then tells Rowling that she expressed concern to director David Heyman at the time that the scene strayed too far from Rowling’s original intent.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: “I hadn't told Kloves that and when he wrote the script he felt exactly the same thing at exactly the same point.” “When I wrote Hallows, I felt this quite strongly when I had Hermione and Harry together in the tent!” she told Watson. However, Rowling said she was surprised by the scene (which is original to the movie) because she’d also thought there might have been attraction between the two in the time when Ron was gone. Some fans liked the scene others disagreed with what they saw as subtext of feelings between the two. In addition to Rowling’s previously published remark that she thinks Harry and Hermione might have been better together, the author discussed her feelings about a scene in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One” in which Harry and Hermione dance together in a tent while on the run from villain Voldemort’s forces. I'm not sure you could have got over that in an adult relationship, there was too much fundamental incompatibility,” she said. “I think the attraction itself is plausible but the combative side of it.
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In the full interview for Wonderland Magazine, which Watson guest-edited, Rowling discussed her misgivings about the relationship further.
Watson agreed, saying, “I think there are fans out there who know that too and who wonder whether Ron would have really been able to make her happy.” For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron.” Some fans immediately cried foul when an excerpt was made public in the Sunday Times in which Rowling told Watson, “I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment. Rowling conducted by “ Harry Potter” actress Emma Watson for Wonderland Magazine has now been released in full and the text may offer some solace for those Harry Potter fans who weren’t pleased by Rowling’s comments that she’d wondered whether characters Ron and Hermione would have been happy together romantically.