Ginny - Not

[Carol]

zanooda wrote:
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> Sure, but couldn't she do something else? For example, Harry missed a button while buttoning his shirt and she helped him to get it right - this would have been much better, IMO. It still shows care, and it still has something to do with clothes, but it's something that is easier done with outside help, so it doesn't look so strange. 
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> I'll give you an example: I actually sometimes tie my husband's shoelaces, because he has back problems and it's often painful for him to bend down. However, if he had perfectly healthy back, I would never do it, because it would have felt weird, even for a married couple. So, unless Harry has the same disability as Dan, that scene looked very strange :-). I don't know about "icky", but it was annoying and embarrassing to watch - to submissive, IMO :-).
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Carol responds:

I agree. It never occurred to me that the scene had sexual overtones (unlike Cormac McLaggen licking his fingers). But "submissive," yes. And it also suggested an astounding degree of ineptitude on Harry's part--poor widdle Hawwy can't tie his ickle shoewaces. No doubt that particular mothering skill will come in handy when Ginny has sixteen-year-old sons. Now that I know about Dan Radcliffe's dyspraxia, though, I suspect it was an in joke at Dan's expense and that both he and Ginny were being good sports. (I think it's in bad taste, myself, along with "Equus" jokes.)

Anyway, the scene with Ginny removing a maggot from Harry's hair mentioned by someone in this thread would duplicate a similar scene in GoF where the much older and more worldly Madame Maxime removes something (not a maggot, presumably!) from Hagrid's beard and makes a show of eating it. (Ugh!) And since Kreacher's Christmas present of maggots makes no appearance in the HBP film, they couldn't have used that scene, anyway.

Carol, whose main reaction to the scene was that Ginny wouldn't act like a Geisha and Harry wouldn't have let her if she tried