Ginny (wasRe: Getting Shippy With It)

[moongirlk at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 10885

I said:

>" I think this may be how Ginny will be playing a bigger 
part 
> in the next book(s), and also may afford Harry the opportunity to 
see 
> her as something more than Ron's embarrassing little sister. Hmmm - 
> this no-shipping thing is hard - I'd rather like to see them develop 
> at the very least a relationship of mutual respect, if not something 
> special."
> 

"Jim Ferer" wrote:

> You and I are on the very small H/G ship, oppressed and alone, being 
> pelted by pennies and beaten with clubs of ebony, and patronized 
> because we think One Big Happy Weasley Family isn't such a bad thing 
> after all.  It's true we haven't had much to go on, and certainly 
> Ginny will have to get over her hero-worship of Harry for them to 
> develop anything real. Shared experience will do a lot to resolve 
> that, I hope, and then maybe we'll see something better than her 
being 
> shipped off to a creep like Draco.


Jim~

OH!  Maybe THAT's where I belong!  This has been a very wishy-washy 
week for me - I jumped ship early in the week in hopes that the 
shipless waters would make me more objective, and less emotional.  The 
problem is, I'm divided on the whole thing.

My rational/objective side says the whole shipping thing ought to be 
moot as we're talking about a bunch of children who are way too young 
to know who they should spend their lives with, and that it's unfair 
to impose my thoughts/feelings/wishes on the characters at all.  That 
side also adds (I think in order to trick the rest of me into thinking 
this is sufficiently romantic), that if no real 'ships arise in canon 
everyone can go on believing in whatever they prefer.

My emotional/instinctual side stomps its feet and says - "HEY!  What 
the heck is wrong with One Big Happy Family?!?"  and feels that anyone 
with a heart in 'em would *want* the whole gang to be happy, dammit!  
(My emotional/instinctual side isn't very tactful, I'm sorry!)

My inner child adores Ginny, the font of potential, and wants to see 
her do something wonderful and heroic and have Harry suddenly notice 
what a lovely shade of burnt umber her freckles turn when she's 
embarrassed.

My inner adolescent wants to tear herself out of my head/heart or 
wherever she's currently hanging out and rush to Hogwarts while 
Hermione's not looking and let Ron beat ME(her?) in chess for a 
change.

My rational brain then occasionally breaks up the party to remind 
everyone that this is all fiction, at which point my inner pranksters 
(in Weasley sweaters, of course) steal the party pooper's prefect 
badge and charm it to say naughty words.  

So as you can see, I've been rather in a tizzy lately.  But if 
you're willing to allow such a schizophrenic mess as myself aboard, 
the SS H/G sounds like a cozy little home.  Maybe we can meet up with 
the Good Ship R/H at Party Cove?  I think it's a demilitarized zone, 
so we should be safe!

Thanks for the lifeline, Jim!
kimberly,
soggy new recruit on the SS H/G