Ginny: Chart Review?

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 16415

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., wings909 at a... wrote:
> Milz: As a Ginny defender, I have to agree with all of your points, 
on her 
> character, but I think you left out on that for me, pretty much 
says a lot 
> about her, only from a tiny sentence in GoF.  
> 
> From Canon:  "She looked as though she was fighting back a smile, 
but she 
> kept on patting Ron's arm sympathetically."
> 
> For me, this says that Ginny is very loyal to her family (which you 
already 
> outlined) but I can see further that the girl has a sense of humour 
that 
> hopefully JKR will develop in the next books.  Now why she was 
laughing is 
> unclear: it could be just the way Ron was acting (hell, I thought 
that was 
> funny when I read it myself) or it could be because she was 
laughing at the 
> whole strange turn of events: Ron gets turned down by Fleur, while 
Hermione 
> got asked out by Krum.  This is just my analysis of Ginny, IMOHO.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paula 
> Gryffindor

I think I mentioned one of my favourite Ginny scenes recently - when 
she stands up for Harry when he is being mocked by Draco in the 
bookshop at the beginning of CoS.  She stands her ground, glares at 
Draco, overcomes her shyness of Harry because she wants to defend him 
and behaves very unlike the weedy, wimpish, wet that many believe her 
to be.

I don't even want to get started on the Yule Ball again, as I am 
starting to feel like a broken record, and a guess a few of you 
probably think I am writing like one as well, but again - 
sensitivity, restrained humour bubbling under the surface, honourable 
(she honours her date with Neville), perhaps proud (I wouldn't be 
surprised if she thought that she would be selling herself short if 
she went to the ball with Harry, knowing he wanted to be with someone 
else) - generally much more mature than her elder brother.

I'm going to stop now before I start ranting.

Catherine