Spoiler Alert!! Deathly Hallows 2 Observation

[VeronicaS]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Cd M" <chazaswell at ...> wrote:
>
> If you haven't seen the movie yet, but intend to, please skip this post.
> 
> I greatly enjoyed DHP2.  But one thing near the end really bothers me. 
> As Harry
> wanders back into the Great Hall, after being dead and killing
> Voldemort, he
> passes right by Ginny.  She just sits there.  Shell shock maybe?  I
> don't know,
> but should have been amazed, excited, proud, etc... that he even shows
> back up.
> Why didn't she react at all?  Why didn't he at least wave to her?  They
> were
> supposed to be each others great love and this reaction in the movie
> just
> doesn't make sense to me.
> 
> Did this bother anyone else?
> 
> 
> Cd M
>

Actually, this didn't bother me at all - I think everyone in the movie knew at this point Harry was still alive (in the book, they definitely did since they all witnessed him defeating Voldemort) and since he actually jumps down and everyone's crying "Harry" in the movie, I assumed movie-Ginny knows this as well though I'd have to view it again to see her reaction in THAT scene.  The later scene you're referencing, with her shell-shocked expression with her head on her mum's shoulder, and Harry seeing her but passing by and then going off alone with Ron and Hermione was exactly like the book in my recollection - his thoughts were something like "there would be time to talk to her and for comfort later."  

I actually thought this showed his maturity in both the book and the movie.  In Book 6, there is a reference to Ginny's embraces as "his one source of comfort" and I thought of this as typical teenage love/lust, where your girlfriend or boyfriend is all-encompassing to you.  Whereas in Book 7, he more fully realizes that sexual love, while it CAN be the deepest in some instances (and I truly believe he and Ginny are soulmates as they are the only ones in the world who know what it's like to literally and not just figuratively fight against the Voldemort inside of them) is NOT the only love in your life - he allows Ginny to be comforted by and comfort her mother, while he goes to be comforted and comfort by his two best friends.

Always lurking, rarely posting,

Vero