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

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 77009


> > > 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
>
Now Jesta:

First of all, we haven't really *seen* enough of Ginny to argue that her 
personality has "changed 180 degrees".  Yes, she gets all twittery and 
clumsy in front of her pre-adolescent crush when she's a few years younger; 
as Margaret notes, that's *not* uncommon and not that big of a deal - 
although it seems so at the time.  :-)

Secondly, the remark about Ginny "never shutting up" comes from the very 
prejudiced eye of one of numerous older brothers.  I wouldn't take it all 
that seriously.

What I think is far more revealing and worth noting are the conversations 
she's had with Hermione over the years she's now known her - it seems as 
though Ginny was hiding her light under a bushel as far as her older 
brothers were concerned, preferring to 'fly below the radar' rather than get 
into such obvious scrapes as Fred and George did.  She's proven herself 
clever, resourceful and courageous this year; and there really is not much 
evidence to say that she *wasn't* before this, since she is (rightly) 
offstage for much of the time with her own year and her own set of friends 
once she comes to Hogwarts.

So I don't think it's a "sudden personality change" at all; I think it's 
what is known as "maturing".

JH

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