Is Ginny's Sudden Personality Change Believeable?

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Buttercup <cathio2002 at y...>
wrote:
> 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. 

ME HERE:  Hi, ummm, Ginny was just shy and timid around Harry.  She
had a crush on him.  She couldn't talk to him.  Remember Ron saying
"This is weird she ususally never shuts up."  It was not until she got
*over* the crush that she could talk to Harry like she talked to
everyone else.  And I do think that Ginny has been hiding her self
from her bossy brothers and demanding mother.  She is a little (I
guess) like Ron in that way.  Large family dynamics being what they
are younger children, once they realise the older ones are just older
not better.  Come out of their shell faily quickly.  Because they were
never shy or timid in the first place.  They were just following the
family pecking order. (speeking as one from a large family and one of
the youngers). 
> 
> 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. 
> 
Me Here:  I vote for play an important role.  I like the hook up part
being a romantic and all... but, I don't see JKR hooking him up with 
 Ginny.  I still think it is going to be *as much as I hate saying
this* Cho. yuck! pooie.  But, I think that JRK is going to have Cho
come around again.  I can't tell you why I feel this way, but it was
just a feeling I had as I read the OOP on the train home. Oh well.
just a thought...

> 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. 
 =====
> Buttercup

ME here:  Hi, Buttercup, I like that they are switching around a lot.
 That means they are not getting to *to* serious.  Leading to teenage
preg, and ruined lives.  I think that teenagers should date a lot of
different people.  If they don't when they are young when are they
going to find out what they like?  At least at this age they can date
a few times and run on to the next guy.  With out getting hot and
heavy.  The kids are young, but my mother used to talk about dating
when she was in high school *late 40's early 50's (when a hot date was
a kiss on the lips).
She used to go out with different boys every friday nite.  Going out
with the same boy was *going steady* and that was just one large *no
no*.  So date away Ginny, Hermione, Cho, Ron, Nevelle, and who ever
else wants to hop around.  I think it is healthy.    

Cheers... Tj