Is Ginny's Sudden Personality Change Believeable?

[princesspeaette]

No: HPFGUIDX 76521

> 
> > Buttercup's original message:
> > 
> > >I'm wondering if Ginny's 180 degree personality change
> > >is plausible. 

> Steve B replies:
> > 
> > I agree that Ginny's personality has changed drastically, but I 
disagree
> > that it is unbelievable. First of all, we barely even see her in
> books 3 and
> > 4, so its been 3 years. Nobody's personality changes faster than 
a young
> > teenage girl. 
> 

Sydney:

> I AM an expert on otherwise outgoing teenage girls who turn into 
dithering ninnies in
> the presence of their crush!  I often cringed to think of what
> impression I must be leaving the Boy of My Dreams with.
<snip> 
> Having suffered from Crush-Induced Brain-Cloud syndrome, I badly
> wanted to see Ginny come into her own.  
<snip>


Me (Margaret):
I just had to post that I am in total agreement with Sydney on this 
one.  I personally am one of those people who never shuts up, and is 
generally making (good hearted) jokes at her friend's expense (is it 
any wonder my favorite characters are Fred and George?) but who 
couldn't form a coherent sentence when around a boy I was interested 
in in high school (still sneaks up on me occassionally).  My friends 
actually found it an amusing indicator of who I currently had a crush 
on at the time. Luckily I went through crushes like socks, so after 
my affection switched to another guy, I went back to my real 
personality.  A (former) crush remarked on this turn-around on more 
than one occassion. (my friends were forbidden from revealing the 
cause, though ;-)

So yes, Ginny's evolving into a more outgoing character was not only 
realistic, I actually expected it to happen.

~Margaret