Characters who might be strong in the future

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 15079

Hi --

Kimberly wrote:

> Well, if the analysis had been done before GoF, going by that who'd
> have thought Dobby'd have any importance again?  He'd disappeaered
> completely in book 3 - not a single mention of him, but he came back
> and was important to the plot in GoF.  Sirius was only mentioned
> twice before PoA, and he's in the top 10 now, and Arthur Weasley went
> from a total of less than 100 in the first 3 books combined to 340 by
> the end of GoF.  There's no way I'd be willing to decide who's going
> to be key in the next book(s) other than, say, the trio Hagrid &
> Dumbledore, by who's gotten the most page time so far.
>

My point with Ginny is that there were many of us on this list prior to
GoF who had the impression from JKR's public pronouncements that Ginny
*would* be featured more prominently in GoF.  So .... I just remain a
bit skeptical that this much-touted Ginny development will necessarily
come to pass.  We see glimpses of possibility for her future character
in GoF -- that's true.

As for Sirius ... he's been on a *progressive* track of character
build-up.  Arthur has also had successively more build-up since his
introduction in CoS.  Ginny, OTOH, took a deep plunge after CoS in my
view.  She really didn't figure *at all* in PoA.  She recovered only
slightly in GoF.  It's certainly possible for Ginny to be a more
developed character in OoP ... or Book 6.... or Book 7.  But, I guess
I've just been commenting that the build-up for Ginny to feature
prominently in GoF was there too, and it didn't come to pass.  So, I
remain a bit skeptic about the issue -- that's all.

Penny


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