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

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No: HPFGUIDX 76140

"feetmadeofclay" <feetmadeofclay at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Ginny doesn't seem too
> ramped up to see her boyfriend after time apart. (Partly this is
> evocative and partly just unrealistic)

What makes you think Ginny was already Corner's girlfriend by then? As far
as we know, Ginny still fancied Harry in GoF, at least up to the Yule Ball.
I don't think she'd go into a date-fest immediately. It is much more
believable that they started dating after the beginning of their 4th year
(maybe they didn't even know each other before that).

> Still I would have liked ot have seen her go through some pain after
> her break up.  Getting over him quickly isn't that hard if she isn't
> that in love with him. But still she's be at least in a funk for bit.

Remember everything on the books is Harry's POV. She probably went through
all this, but Harry certainly wasn't in the mood to notice. Besides, if she
managed to hide the relationship, she probably managed to hide her pain
after the breakup as well. She probably confides this kinds of stuff to
Hermione or other girls of her year, not lets it out in public.

> What I dislike most is that Ginny hid the relationship from her
> brothers and MOST IMPORTANTLY Harry!  A proud girl who has been
> denied the dignity of having her crush either return the feelings or
> at least not know them, would want to reclaim said dignity.

Ginny? Ginny Weasley?? Forgive me, but I don't see Ginny standing up to
Harry and saying "So you don't like me, well, I don't like you either! HA!".

> So after deciding that Michael was a sure bet, Ginny would make it
> very clear to both her brothers and Harry that she was dating
> someone.

Just why? Let's remember Ginny can be a bit shy when it comes to things of
the heart. I don't think she'd brag about it or even gave a nickel over
"lost pride". Besides, who's to say she's COMPLETELY over her feelings for
Harry? She's probably a little doubtful on how to handle it.

> Ginny surely would rather be teased about having a real boyfriend
> than teased about having a hopeless crush on her brother's best
> friend/Gryff's Quidditch star/The Boy Who Won't Die.

First, I don't think Ginny was EVER teased by her brothers because of her
feelings towards Harry. In fact, Ron is quite happy about her crush, since
during the time she fancies Harry she won't be dating anyone and therefore
will be "safe".
Keeping it secret probably has a lot more to do with her brothers being as
overprotective as they are. It wasn't a secret to everyone: Hermione knew.

> In short we should have known in GOF. <snip> At the very least we
> should have seen in GoF something like "Harry noticed Hermione
> chatting with Ginny before a boy Harry didn't recognize lead Ginny
> away and Hermione ........"

Then again, Ginny probably wasn't dating anyone in GoF.

>  No girl in her situation would
> want or need to keep Michael a secret.  And Rowling shows this by
> having Hermione just inform the gang (and us).

These kinds of situations are pretty complex. It's quite likely that Ginny
didn't decide to make it a secret consciously. She didn't know how to break
the news or was afraid of the reactions of Harry/the Weasleys so she just
put off telling them.
It's also likely that Hermione understood all of this, and decided it would
be better for everyone if she seized the opportunity and told everyone.
Remember her line: "This is exactly why she never tells this to you, Ron"
Rowling is clearly justifying Ginny's secrecy.

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