[HPforGrownups] On Ron's relationship with Ginny - Ginny as Harry's fate

[Zorb17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 33126

This topic always gets me up in arms...

Cindy said:

> Primarily, though, I have to decline membership in any Ginny fan club
> because Ginny is very wooden and underdeveloped.  Really, if I had to
> describe her character in a few words, I couldn't do it.  She shines
> for a few sentences in GoF, but that's about it.  Tragically, her big
> turn in the spotlight was in CoS, and the scenes in Dumbledore's
> office didn't do much for me, quite frankly.  Maybe it was the
> stammer, but her lines seemed a little forced.

I completely agree.  Frankly, I find Ginny a weak and boring character.  She 
doesn't seem to *do* anything besides hang around and play the victim's role. 
 Other HP bit players, Dean and Seamus for example, have more personality 
than this girl, who played rather an important role in CoS.  We *know* things 
about Dean and Seamus: Dean's a football fan and a talented artist, while 
Seamus is the half-and-half Irish boy who adores Quidditch.  Ginny is...Ron's 
younger sister who has a crush on Harry.  She has nothing personally 
distinguishing about her.  It's all in relation to other people.  Hm, maybe 
we need an acronym for those of us who *dislike* Ginny!

Felina said:
>There's another reason why Ginny might come to assume a romantic angle for 
>Harry.  She's a Weasley--part of a family that's becoming almost like his 
>own.
>
>One tack on that would be to have them eventually evolve into a sibling-like 

>relationship.  Harry has no siblings of his own.  Molly seems to have taken 
>him under her wing; it would stand to reason the family will always be
>close, barring some major split with one going to the camp of Voldemort and 
>the other group not--but I don't think that will happen.
>
>But, much like Lawrie in Little Women (of all things), I could see a more 
>mature Harry, having gotten through his crush on Cho, maybe a coming to 
>terms with Hermione that they would never do as a married couple, finally 
>coming to feel that he should have always been a part of the Weasley family. 

>They all love him, it's not like he'd have a problem with in-laws.

I'm cringing.  This H/G justifications really irks me.  As Ebony said before, 
it's One Big Happy Weasley Family.  My question to you is, why can't Harry be 
part of the Weasley family without marrying into it?  As you said, they're 
already becoming his family, without any sign of reciprocated interest in 
Ginny on his part.  IMHO, Harry is already a Weasley in all but name and hair 
color.  I think JKR, having established with the Dursleys and Sirius that 
blood ties don't necessarily make a family, will continue this with Harry and 
the Weasleys.

Ana said:
>I would argue that Ron is not close with Ginny for this very reason: 
>that she is just a year younger.

And I would agree.  I come from a big family (though not Weasley-sized), and 
two of my sisters are only a year and a half apart in age, and a year apart 
in school.  They are also the two sisters who fight the most, from when they 
were little to now, when they are in high school.  That much closeness 
creates competition, especially with other siblings around.

Zorb (another who would trade Ginny for plenty of other characters)


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