[HPforGrownups] Ginny [Was: Re: Hermione and JKR]

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 3437

Hi --

Firebolt wrote:

> It's been bugging me recently the way Ginny gets portrayed in
> fanfiction - Hermione's becoming too feisty, Ginny is becoming a shy,
> blushing little thing. I'm rereading CoS at the moment, and in Chapter
> Three (the Burrow), Ron clearly says that Ginny 'never shuts up
> normally', and from what we see of her in PS and also after CoS, she
> definitely has a personality - maybe she's a little less rambunctious
> than her brothers, but she's got a sense of humor and does stand up
> for herself - and she sounds like a Weasley, if you look at the way
> she talks.

Well, maybe it's because in the canon, we're in Harry's POV, and when
Ginny's around Harry, she is a blushing, shy person for the most part.
I agree that she seems to be standing up for herself a bit more -- in
the 2-3 lines that she has in PoA & GoF that is.  She doesn't figure
much at all in the canon, so even though Ron has said she's a chatterbox
& we all assume she's strong-willed because she's a Weasley, we've no
real evidence of that.

> Come to think of it, I don't recall ever seeing a teenage Ginny who
> wasn't either incredibly shy or had a life which revolved around
> Harry. And how come I keep reading fics where she grows up to be a
> fashion designer? It was okay when Lori did it, but it's gotten
> reeeeeeaaaally old...

I'll second Cassie's Hmmph!  She's not a fashion designer in PoU or
ASA.  She's a magazine editor.  In fact, she's a successful business
owner -- running her own magazine after building it from the ground
up.   Considering I don't even like her character much in the canon, I
think she's been treated pretty darn fairly in the fanfic I've read
(which isn't all that much I must confess).

Penny



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