Ginny: Chart Review?

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 16405

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., arabella at s... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Milz" <absinthe at m...> wrote:
> > > I "chart reviewed" Ginny recently and I have a completely 
> different 
> > > and more favorable impression of her now.
> > > 
> > > :-)Milz (who profusely apologizes for the medical examples and 
for 
> > > tainting this forum with dirty words like "insurance companies", 
> > > "HMOs", "care givers", "reimburse")
> > 
> > Milz, I am a big Ginny fan, so are you going to share the results 
> > with us?  I'd be interested to hear what you have to say (and I 
know 
> > there's probably a few others out there who would be too).
> > 
> So am I - I meant to reply to your bit about Ginny yesterday, 
> Catherine, when you mentioned that you see her maturing and growing 
> into a young lady.  So do I, absolutely.  Milz, what exactly is a 
> chart review, and yes - when can we see it?

There's nothing on paper. I just went through each book in order and 
looked at the Ginny parts and had a good think over them. Before, I 
thought Ginny was a shadow figure who's greatest asset was a crush on 
Harry. I mean, that's the impression I got from her in CoS and the 
other books. 

In the books, she doesn't have as much screen time as Fred and George, 
even in CoS. Even so, she's pretty well defined, though very 
condensed. She loves her brothers, can't really say if she has a 
favorite though. We don't know the full extent of her diary entries, 
but Tom Riddle makes this funny comment that he had to listen to all 
of Ginny's thoughts and that he had to push her to write more about 
Harry. It makes me kind of want to read Tom Riddles thoughts during 
Ginny's non-Harry diary entries. She has the typical Weasley sense of 
humor. She has her opinions and can speak her mind (unless it's to 
Harry about her feelings). In GoF, Molly wants to cut Bill's hair, but 
Ginny says she likes it and Molly is being old-fashioned. Also in GoF, 
she's the one that tells Arthur that Bagman should know better than to 
parade around dressed in Quidditch robes in front of Muggles because 
he's a Ministry Official. She's not manipulative, but she can get want 
she wants. In GoF, she wants to go to the Yule Ball and she does by 
being Neville's date. Also, Ginny was able to resist Tom Riddle for a 
short period. That's an accomplishment for a first year Hogwarts 
student. 

One of the shortest but insightful Ginny moments is in CoS, Harry is 
sitting at the breakfast table in the Burrow. Ginny comes downstairs 
in her nightgown, squeals and runs back upstairs. It's a barely a 
sentence long, but I can picture that scene and I can feel her 
embarrassment: she just got out of bed, hair probably not combed, face 
probably not washed, in her nightgown, and she sees her crush sitting 
at her table in her house. Bad, bad timing. But it gives you a peek 
into her personality and makes her a more fleshed out character than 
"the shy Weasley sister with a crush on Harry Potter .


:-)Milz (sorry if this is disorganized but this was off the top of my 
head)