The Romance (was HBP: the Good, the Not So Good, and the Ridiculous (Spoilers))

[va32h]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Richard Shepard" <shepardrj at ...> wrote:

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> It has been a while since I read all the books so I forget some of the details, but I have never understood why so many people seem to be against the Harry/Ginny pairing.  


va32h:

I am not against the Harry/Ginny pairing, I just don't think Rowling wrote it very well - I don't think she wrote any of her romantic relationships very well.

Somewhere around book 5, Ginny just became Perfect Girl - beautiful, smart, athletic, sassy, etc.  As with most "perfect" characters, she's pretty two dimensional.  Harry's attraction to her, as described in book 6, seems to be all about her long bouncy hair and the fact that she doesn't cry all the time, like Cho did. 

Probably pretty typical for a teenage romance, but if I'm supposed to believe that Harry and Ginny are a Love for the Ages, I need a little more than that. 



> I will willingly admit that I hope they go completely overboard to make the Ron/Hermione thing heat up in DH1&2 :)  
> 

va32h:

Oh I agree.  I could not understand why DH began with Ron/Herimone *still* not together when HBP seemed to have settled the matter between them. 

The HBP film left things a little more nebulous between Ron & Hermione, but I do hope they get together at the beginning, not the end.  Watching them bicker for six movies is quite enough. 

va32h