"Fanfic Tangent" (ship warning)

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 10124

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Carole Estes" <lrcjestes at e...> 
wrote:
> 
> Just because [Ginny] is young and has a crush on Harry doesn't in
> anyway give me the idea that she expects to get her glory from her
> spouse.  I had loads of crushes at age 11, 12, and 13...but even
> then never thought about deriving "glory" from the object of
> that crush and certainly not from a spouse.

Welll, I *should* have said from her 'partner' rather than from 
her 'spouse', but I was speaking in the context of long-term, adult 
relationships. Having explained that Viktor wouldn't feel threatened 
by Hermione's career success *because* he has enough glory of his own, 
I then had to explain why Ginny wouldn't feel threatened by her 
partner's glory or career success *despite* having none of her own. 
Of course I hope that Ginny grows up to be a strong and sucessful 
woman, as for example shown in PoU, but so far there is nothing 
of that in canon.

Probably it also was wrong of me to say 'expect', as I never meant 
that it was her *conscious* expectation. Unconscious expectations 
have a lot of power over people....

I, too, have had loads of crushes from age 11 to the present day, but 
generally not on people whom I'd never met and never even seen 
(you could be picky about you and I have never met Sirius or Remus, 
and never even seen them except in drawings, but that just means I 
need the right word to say that reading about them in PoA really was 
a form of meeting them and getting to know them). 

The difference is Ginny having a crush on Harry based only on having 
spent her life hearing that 'The Boy Who Lived' had saved the entire 
wizarding world. All she had a crush on was his glory, fame, high 
level of magic power. She didn't even recognize him when first they 
met.