Neville & SHIPping

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 34263

lucky_kari wrote:

> Permanently, please. Ginny and Neville. (/me has carved into a class
> wall. N.L + G.W. with a heart around it.)
> 
> 1. It would show that Ginny has moved past the impressionablity of
> the earlier books: hero-worship of Harry, the susceptability to Tom
> Riddle's charms, even the seeming idolization of Bill's coolness, to
> seeing what's inside a person. Neville does not appeal to her at
> first. She is presented as having a pained expression, as he treads
> on her feet at the ball. But she keeps faith with him when she gets
> the hoped-for invitation from Harry (via Ron :-), suggesting that she
> will not let initial feelings rule her life.
> 
> 2. Neville is a much more enterprizing and talented young man than
> most people give him credit for. While Ron and Harry were moaning
> about how they didn't have dates, Neville asked Hermione, was turned
> down, and then asked Ginny. Notice that he asked girls whom he knew,
> and supposedly liked, not the prettiest person he could find (like
> Ron and Harry). Neville knows(unlike Ron: no stunning looker himself
> I'm guessing) that he is not the best thing going, and has got past
> that very creditably. I think he's going to confound everyone else by
> being the first to find success in love, and without going through an
> emotional blender first.
> 
> 3. Why Ginny and Neville at the Ball? I take it as JKR's first hint
> that there's a future for that couple, that not everything will
> revolve around the trio. That loyalty, humility, charity, and quiet
> bravery will finally have their reward.
> 

I rarely spend my time thinking about the shipping, but this one
intrigued me. I think Neville and Ginny are a good match. While I've
read some fanfics that have Harry and Ginny match up, I'm not a
supporter of them matching up in Rowling's books. They don't seem like a
fit to me. Neville and Ginny seem like a great fit. I also think that
Neville is just more frightened of magic than he is unmagical. Perhaps
he's going to develop more as well.

I'm a Ron and Hermione shipper. I love the together. I like that they
are different personalities, but I think they'd end up being a very good
match. I also don't think that we've met Harry's match yet. He might
have a fling with Cho, but it won't last. I think he'll find practically
every girl around him attractive at some point. I get the feeling that
Ron and Harry will wake up at the same time towards Hermione, but Harry
will move on to someone else. He might even take a liking to Ginny this
summer (if he goes to the Weasleys), but that won't last. I think her
interest will be elsewhere. 

Anyway...I like the idea of Ginny and Neville...I think they'd be a
great pair. 

-Katze