SHIP: Problems with the concept of G/H

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 35076

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "heiditandy" <heidit at n...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "uilnslcoap" <devin.smither at y...> 
wrote:
> > Now, onto my favorite pet topic of Ginny, the girl who will in 
> fact 
> > be at Harry's side, probably starting in Book VI (though it 
might  start to show up in Book V) through Book VII if he dies, 
and after  book VII married to him if he lives.  

> 2. Married? Can I borrow the Ewwww acronym for this? Can we 
get an  acronym which covers the issue of Why 16 Year Old Girls 
Should Not Be Married Or Even Engaged Even in the WIzarding 
World - Ron's birthday is March 1. Unless witches gestate for 
shorter periods of  time than Muggles, Ginny's birthday really 
can't be earlier than  February - you think it's a good idea for a 
girl who's barely 17, at  most, and more likely 16, to be married 
or engaged to a 17 year old,  just because when she was 11 she 
was posessed by the same Dark  wizard who tried to kill him 
when he was 15 months old? How is that  a basis for a 
relationship?
> 
The books started with a prologue, set ten years before the main 
action of the book.  They are, according to reports of the 
Christmas JKR interview, destined to end with an epilogue that 
wraps everything up. So at the end of book VII need not mean 
"when Ginny is sixteen years old." I suggest G.E.W.G.A.W. -- 
Ginny's Early Wedding Gets Awfully Weird. However, I think 
weirdness is in the eye of the beholder.

We seem to be dealing with a society where government and 
corporate entities are weaker than in the Muggle world and 
clans/families are correspondingly stronger. Like, say, early 
Scotland, where marriages were often performed at a young age 
out of dynastic considerations. Anyone remember the folksong, 
"Daily Growin'?" 

http://shorty.mudcat.org/!!-song99.cfm?stuff=fall99+D+3120336

Since Harry has no wizarding family, the need to establish one 
by marriage might encourage him to tie the knot at an early age. I 
am not talking about the psychological connection to the 
Weasleys which he certainly already has, but a formal legal 
arrangement.   Adoption wouldn't work, since Harry wouldn't want 
to cut  his ties to the Potter legacy.

Pippin