SHIP Harry & Ginny?

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 15530

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> 
> I agree with that. But if R and H get together, and Ginny ends up 
with 
> who-knows-who, or nobody, it's a little awkward. It might work, 
> though.

How awkward? At the end of Book 7, she'll be 16, maybe 17 (her 
birthday cannot be before January 1981, unless witches have shorter 
gestation periods than muggles) 

I'm not saying it's bad to hope that Ginny becomes a strong, brave, 
competent character in her own right - I, for one, would cheer if she 
did - but the Ginny in canon right now is not there yet. I wonder if 
the characteristics some listies are giving her are projections of 
either the they either posess themselves (or wish they did) or the 
characteristics they would appreciate in a spouse - not necessarily 
the ones that would fit with Harry Potter. And, to be honest, being 
what I think of as a strong, independent (although not particularly 
brave in the warrior sense) and competent woman, who happens to be 
married to a guy who's more of a feminist than I am, I cannot imagine 
why a guy, in this day & age, would be interested in a woman whose 
major qualities are "safeness" and "quietness".  It's not what he 
sought in friends (he's not best buddies with Neville, who seems to 
exhibit those qualities on occasion, and if he sought those things in 
a friend, he might very well have). 
Being "devoted" is a great quality when it's appropriate - but one 
has to be devoted to a person, after coming to know said person over 
a period of time and developing a mature relationship with him/her. 
Being devoted to an idea or a manifestation of something isn't a 
relationship. It is syncophancy.