Ginny telling TGHP where to get off

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 15547

Cassie wrote:

>I bet she'd really like some character 
>development where she got to be brave, or do something interesting, 
>or maybe got to tell the Great Harry Potter where to get off, just 
>once.

Sigh.  Didn't I already give a good example?  Okay, I'll write it 
out.  This is from memory so please don't jump on me for getting my 
prepositions wrong!

Ron, Harry, and Ginny in the common room.  Hermione comes in and asks 
what's wrong.  Ginny:

"'"They're upset—oh, shut up laughing, you two—they're upset because 
they both just got turned down by girls they asked to the Ball!'

"That shut Ron and Harry up."

Sounds like a pretty good telling-where-to-get-off to me.  Ginny's 
pretty feisty for a boring wimp.  We definitely would need to know 
more about her to be certain, but so far I would say the text and 
subtext is that Ginny is not one to be all supporter and no self.

I'll add another point in Ginny's favor:  how close she comes to 
telling Ron and Harry what's going on with the diary.  She has been 
cursed by a very powerful wizard--she and we may think she is only 
held back by shame, but I think there's more going on.  This is very 
late in the book, and she is almost entirely under Riddle's control 
at this point, so telling them requires a strength of will like that 
required to throw off the Imperius Curse.  She does pretty well IMO.

Amy Z