Ginny Weasley - Part 2

[ravenclawlady]

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Subject: Ginny Weasley - Part 2
Date: 8/1/00 2:39 am  (ET)

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Ginny will probably never join the main triumvirate in their adventures,
but I can easily see her forming a different bond with each of them,
independent of the other two. With Ron, she has the brother/sister
bond. They grew up together and have so far lived in the same house all
their lives.

I can see Ginny and Hermione becoming confidantes, though I see that
happening, in effect "off-stage" (when Harry isn't present). Hermione's
two best friends are both great guys, but I doubt she feels comfortable
discussing *all* of her concerns with them. At this time in her life,
there are some things she'll want to talk over with another girl. To use
the Yule Ball again as an example, Hermione told Ginny, not Ron or Harry,
that Viktor was her date. Hermione's roommates, Lavender and Parvati,
have formed their own clique, excluding Hermione. We haven't seen who
Ginny hangs out with, but if her eagerness to write in Tom Riddle's
diary is any indication, Ginny needs someone to talk to even more. As
the two girls go through adolescence and their relative age gap narrows,
I can see them providing for each other that needed female friend.

Ginny's relationship with Harry is so far pretty one sided, but I've
seen changes even in her crush on him. We first see her as a little girl
begging to go onto the Hogwarts Express and see Harry, much the same way
I might have acted at that age if I'd heard I was mere yards away from
Shaun Cassidy or John Travolta. A year later, we see her in Flourish
and Blotts, telling Malfoy that Harry didn't want to be photographed
or gawked at. IMO, this shows she's started to see Harry as a person,
instead of as a celebrity. Her crush has been promoted from "celebrity"
to "brother's best friend".

Whether her feelings will ever be mutual, who knows? I personally hope
they do, but that's just the romantic in me who would like to see Ginny
fulfill that dream. I'm not thinking so much of "happily ever after,"
as they will only be 17 (maybe 16 in Ginny's case) at the end of the
series. I'm thinking more of a teen romance, a first relationship. My
reasoning on that is more emotional than logical (which is why I haven't
entered the matchmaking foray on HP Anonymous). But for you H/H, H/C,
or H/who-cares-as-long-as-it-isn't-Ginny shippers, I'll just agree
to disagree.

True, it doesn't look likely at this point. But to me, it's not because
I see him with Hermione, Cho or anyone else we've met yet. It's because,
with Voldemort back, I'm wondering when he'll have the time! But that's
a subject for another post.

Just my two Galleons.

Melanie