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

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52112

Marina said:

>>>Harry noticing something cool about Ginny would be the 
beginning of a process that might lead to a relationship, not the 
endpoint. <<<

Well, yeah. This is a book about teenagers in a comparatively 
inhibited environment, sexually speaking. I mean, "Dawson's 
Creek" it's not.  How close to the "endpoint" do you expect them 
to get? I don't think I'd be going too far out on a limb to predict 
that Harry Potter will not become sexually active while he's a 
Hogwarts student. 

There are plenty of love stories where the main character madly 
pursues the wrong person almost to the final chapter, while 
steadfastly ignoring the right person who is pursuing them. After 
all, from the author's point of view, the problem is not, "how do I 
get these two nice people together", it's "how do I manage to 
keep them apart  till the end"?

JKR doesn't have the freedom of a fanfic writer as regards her 
characters. We aren't going to open book 5 and find that they've 
all morphed into fancy free twenty-somethings living "Friends" 
style in a fashionable London flat. <g> JKR's made it clear 
enough that though she writes for herself, she's not going to put 
in anything she feels is inappropriate for a twelve year old.

That's another reason for thinking the main love interest in the 
books will be Ron and Hermione. They can slip off to an empty 
classroom for a bit of charms work,  nudge nudge wink wink, 
without compromising anyone's innocence.

I said:
> 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? 

Marina:
>>>>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.<<<

"When one wizard saves another wizard's life, it creates a certain 
bond between them. <snip> "This is magic at its deepest, its 
most impenetrable..." PoA Ch. 22

I don't think JKR would have created a life debt between Ginny 
and Harry if it wasn't going to be important. But she might have 
her reasons for wanting *us* to ignore it for a while. As that 
Aragorn/Arwen Shipper Gandalf put it, "Many folk like to know 
beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have 
laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder 
makes the words of praise louder."

Besides, there's this:

"Ginny?"
"Hermione?"
"What are you doing?"
"I was looking for Ron--"
"Come in and sit down--"
"Not here!" said Harry hurriedly. "*I'm* here."

PoA ch. 5

Certainly sounds as if Ginny's distress over the Dementors 
drove her into Harry's arms  or maybe his lap, doesn't it? <g>  
Now, I know, I know, they're only 12 and 13 in this scene, but it's 
much funnier if you think that someday they are going to be 
interested in each other. You'll also notice that with every 
opportunity to have Hermione fall into Harry, she steps on Ron 
instead.

Pippin