[HPforGrownups] Is Ginny's Sudden Personality Change Believeable?

[Buttercup]

No: HPFGUIDX 76053

I'm wondering if Ginny's 180 degree personality change
is plausible. She goes from being pretty much
unnoticeable to being almost a female version of
Harry. In reality, which I know fiction is not, it
takes time for humans to change parts of their
personality they want to improve. And the
transformation is usually gradual and may take years.
I think it would be quite hard for a timid person to
all of a sudden be brassy. 

Obviously, JKR did this because of the role Ginny
would be playing in the last books, and she couldn't
do that with a wallpaper personality. Possibly,
Ginny's going to (a) play an important role in the
second war and/or (b) hook up with Harry, in which
case he needs a stronger partner, more like his mother
who wasn't afraid to stand up to his dad. 

Don't get me wrong. I like Ginny's improvement, but
it's just not authentic. 

Before OOTP when I read posts hoping that Harry and
Ginny would connect, I thought, "You gotta be kidding.
She's not right for him." But now I can absolutely see
them together and hope they do. She's very much like
his mother (red hair, fearless). 

I do have one problem with her though. She switches
boyfriends a little too quickly for a girl of only
fourteen years. One second it's Michael Corner, then 
Dean Thomas (Cho seems to do the same, floating from
boy to boy). By the time Harry and she get together,
she'll have dated every available boy at Hogwarts.
They're too young for this. 



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Buttercup

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