Is Ginny's Sudden Personality Change Believeable?

[glorificus fickwalker]

No: HPFGUIDX 76329

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


Severus said:

Buttercup,
     You have to remember she is the younger sister of six big
brothers, so she would probably be very outspoken and an intense
tomboy since she was probably picked on somewhat as she grew up, and
she has been at Hogwarts for 3 years. Plenty of time to change and
grow up some. In my own opinion, I think she was always like this,
she was only timid around Harry because she is, or was, quite
smitten with him, and that was the only time we saw her interact
with people, is with Harry and co..  She speaks to him now because
she has gotten to know him and realized he is a real person and not
the super being she had imagined him to be (like so many people
idolize movie stars).  Also since she has had passing boyfriends
(normal for my 14 year old) she is much more secure around the
object of her affection (Harry could learn from her, he was quite an
idiot around Cho, tongue tied and panicky <sp?>).


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>From personal experience, and this is just an option, Ginny quite possibly
still feels for Harry, but has resigned herself to the fact that he's her
brother best friend or that perhaps she's just waiting for him to turn
around and see her there ... Sorry, I know this must sound silly. I've just
been in the situation where there's an affection for someone close to you or
your family like that and sometimes you have to just ... Try to forget it?
That's the wrong way to explain it. Not forget about that person or the way
you feel about them, but try to hold it back and not interfere with your
friendship with them. Plus with the added pressures for Harry, being 'the
one' and all, I'm sure Ginny wouldn't want to add to those worries,
especially after things went so disastrously with Cho.


Just a thought,
Glory
xx