Ginny SHIP: was JKR Interview (what she said and what she didn't say)

[marinafrants <rusalka@ix.netcom.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52087

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999 <foxmoth at q...>" 
<foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> Marina said:
> >>>Second of all: yes, I definitely think JKR wanted the readers 
> to forget about Scabbers, and to attach no importance to him. 
> His true identity was sprung on us all in one shot, as a huge, 
> plot-turning revelation. That's a terrific way to unmask a villain.
> It's a *horrible* way to introduce a love interest. 

> Um, let me see. It's a perfectly acceptable plot development for 
> Harry to discover all of a sudden that his best friend's house pet 
> is actually a murdering traitor. *That* happens all the time.<g> 
> But if he suddenly noticed that his best friend's kid sister was 
> actually  a  spirited girl with a sense of humor(1)(2) it would 
tax your credulity?

Harry noticing something cool about Ginny would be the beginning of 
a process that might lead to a relationship, not the endpoint.  
Since he *hasn't* actually noticed any such thing yet, the process 
has not begun.  Whether or not it will begin at some future point is 
anybody's guess.  But the fact that Ginny has been insignificant up 
until now does not constitute evidence that she will be significant 
in the future.  There's a large cast of currently insignificant 
characters populating the Potterverse.  They can't all date Harry.

> And saving Ginny's life wasn't a meaningful 
> interaction, I guess. Poor Ginny...what does a girl have to go 
> through to be meaningful around here? 

Something more than just lie there unconscious, apparently.  And 
since this event has not come up in conversation between them even 
once in the two years that followed it, I think that whatever 
significance it might have had, it's certainly not pushing Harry and 
Ginny into each other's arms.

> 
> Your criteria would rule out a love interest for any couple in the 
> books except Harry/Hermione. Poor Sirius, no agingpotion!Mrs. 
> Figg for him--and I guess Mme Lestrange of the magnificent hair 
> isn't going to try to seduce anybody either--what a waste!

Uhm, no.  My criteria doesn't rule out *anyone*. That's the point. 
JKR can still develop anyone she chooses into a love interest for 
Harry.  She's got three long books to do it in. I don't rule out 
Ginny.  I don't rule out Hermione.  I don't rule out Cho Chang.  I 
don't rule out the trolley lady on the Hogwarts Express.  I just see 
no reason to pick Ginny as any more likely than any other random 
female we've seen in the books.

And I'm going to hold my breath for Millicent until I turn blue, so 
there.  Slytherins need love, too!

Marina
Proud Harry/Millicent shipper
rusalka at ix.netcom.com