Ginny's maturity (WAS Ginny inconsistancy?)

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 28199

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Sofie " <sofie_elisabeth at y...> wrote:
> I know this has nothing to do with the original thread for this 
topic 
> but I'll ask you this now anyway. Did anyone else get the 
impression 
> from Ginny's behaviour in PS/SS that she was a lot younger than 
ten? 
> I thought maybe she was 6/7 and then CoS came out and I read it and 
i 
> was thinking 'what Ginny's 11? She can't be'. 

I hadn't thought about this, but you raise a good point.  If Ginny is 
10 in PS/SS, then she is quite a bit different than the 10-year-old 
girls I know, even the shy ones.  The ones I know would never hide 
behind their mothers, and they tend to roll their eyes a fair amount, 
all in pursuit of the most important of all life goals -- looking 
cool.  Perhaps British 10-year-old girls are different?

Cindy (wondering what it might mean to be nackered)