[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP Harry & Ginny?

[Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner]

No: HPFGUIDX 15442

Carole Estes (echoing Heidi and Cassie) wrote:

> Harry doesn't need Ginny to be a part of the
> Weasley family.

Quite so, but unless I'm much mistaken, nobody is saying that he does need
her for that purpose.

The idea behind OBHWF isn't that Harry *has* to marry into the Weasleys to
be totally accepted and loved by them, because it's evident that he already
is accepted.  Molly's just as fiercely protective of Harry, and as generous
to him, as one of her own.  (Indeed more so, if you count the way her
hand-knitted sweaters for Harry always suit his colouring, in marked
contrast to Ron's).  Harry's got no need to date Ginny to get closer to her
family -- he'd have nothing to gain by it.  No, the idea of OBHWF is just
that since that closeness is already there, wouldn't it be nice to see it
all the more confirmed and cemented by an H/G romance?  Molly would be over
the moon about it, and Fred & George would have a field day with teasing and
jokes.

Personally, I believe in H/G (which is not the same as wishful thinking,
because I really don't care if it doesn't happen) because it makes good
sense to me.  The way I see it, by making Harry so close to the Weasleys in
general and by giving Ginny's infatuation with Harry a central role in CoS,
JKR may very well be setting the stage for an eventual, mature relationship
between H & G.  People who get to know each other in a relaxed, family
atmosphere, and started out as friends rather than lovers, have a better
chance at lasting love than those who have only ever seen each other in a
romantic context and who still have illusions about each other's true
personality.  (It's the difference between Anne/Roy and Anne/Gilbert, for
those Lucy Maud Montgomery fans out there.)  If Ginny gets over her
starry-eyed infatuation with Harry -- which I think she will -- and if Harry
stops looking for Miss Gorgeous, they might eventually make a very good
match.

I am not saying Ginny is the only one for Harry, or even that she would
necessarily be a good choice for Harry.  We frankly don't know enough about
Ginny yet to make a judgment on that point.  But I do think it is likely,
given all the information we've been given about the Weasleys in general and
Ginny in particular, that at some point in the next three books she will
become a more prominent character.  Not as prominent as Hermione, of
course -- there's no room, and no need, for a fourth in the Famous Three.
But I don't think that JKR put her in the books *just* to be the victim in
CoS, and I won't be a bit surprised if she turns out to be The One For Harry
after all.
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Rebecca J. Bohner
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