Apologizing WAS Re: RE:SHIP: Problems with the concept of G/H

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No: HPFGUIDX 35098

Whoa.  Whoa.  Okay, I'm really sorry.  I've actually made people 
upset.  That is NOT what I intended to do, not even in the 
slightest.  I'm really, really sorry.  I, personally, am not even 
slightly ticked, but I can definitely feel ire in a couple things 
here.  I'm very sorry stubbornly (even blindly) sticking to my own 
view is what's doing that.  I did not mean to cause anger or 
confusion or anything like that.  I'm sorry I didn't put IMOs in the 
proper locations.  I'm sorry that I probably "sarcasticized" a couple 
of things when it wasn't necessary.  It's supposed to be fun, right?  
I apologize profusely to whoever deserves it from me.

I'm gonna go ahead and raise a white flag on just about every issue.  
I jumped in half-cocked on quite a few things, unprepared, and I 
admit that.  While I really DO want to defend my point of view on a 
couple of things (I still don't think Ginny threw the diary away on 
Riddle's orders...I did NOT mean that Rowling would portray her 
characters in an unrealistic way...and I DON'T think Ginny and Harry--
IF they are ever a couple--would announce an engagement in Book VII's 
August-June of seventh year time frame), I really think I should just 
let tempers cool before I even start to do that.  I also just want to 
say that although I am relatively (RELATIVELY) certain that IF there 
is a Harry ship at all, it will be with Ginny, I never declared 
certainty on either issue.  (It's probably about 50% there will be a 
Harry ship at all, 75% it's with Ginny if so)  I even said the joke's 
on me if I turn out to be wrong.  Please forgive me, once more, if 
you thought I was just butting my head against the wall like a 
pouting child going, "No, no, NO, I'M RIGHT!!!"  That wasn't my frame 
of mind, and I'm really sorry.

This board is mostly about speculation, yes?  Canonized, backed-up 
speculation?  I don't think I've done too much of anything that was 
utterly unsupported by canon.  I'm sorry if you disagree, or think 
I'm extrapolating too much, but I don't think any of my arguments 
were utterly without foundation (well, all right, maybe my assumption 
about Harry's parents' age, which I figured to be about 21, 22, 23 at 
the time of Harry's birth--and the nature of their relationship at 
Hogwarts, but the way they are described as Head Boy and Girl, among 
other things, sounds as though they were a couple even then, though 
that is my opinion).  If people are going to get cranky when I get 
too enthusiastic about a certain issue, and then bite my head off, 
I'm not so sure I want to voice my opinions.  Maybe you think that's 
a good thing, that we'd be better off without my opinions, but I 
would never jump on someone who was brimming with enthusiasm over any 
part of Harry Potter.  I consider true enthusiasm for these books to 
be in pretty limited demand, and I wouldn't get actually upset with 
anyone who liked them the way I do.  Debate is valuable; utter 
censure is not.

So, ANYWAY, I'll just say that, based on my readings of novels (and 
certain, more serialized forms of literature), I see Ginny as highly 
foreshadowed to develop into something much more important than she 
is in the books right now.  Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think I can 
be declared in the wrong irrevocably as of today.  I think it's 
within what has been discussed on this board as canonical possibility 
and is encouraged by my understanding of how literature and plot 
works.  I hope we can agree on that.

I'm gonna go study for two midterms I have tomorrow.  Shakespeare: 
Script to Screen, and Econ: Industrial Organization.  I hope your 
tomorrow is better than mine is going to be.

Devin