SHIP: JKR Interview (what she said and what she didn'...

[Amy Z <lupinesque@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52135

Penny wrote:

> The point is not whether or not JKR *can* flesh Ginny out and 
> develop her as a character and as a potential love interest for 
> Harry.  I'm very, very confident that she *can.* 
> 
> The question, guys, is why *Hasn't* she done so already if it's so 
> clear that Ginny is to be The Love of the Hero?! 

If it's supposed to be "so clear," this question is a stumper.  If 
it's supposed to be "a realistic possibility," then it's answered by 
the Sirius argument:  If there's going to be a central character who 
is crucial to Harry and the plot in books 5-7, why make him a 
throwaway mention in 1, a red herring for most of 3, and someone who 
doesn't appear in the flesh until the end of 3?  (AKA the Figg 
argument and the Neville argument.)

There's loads of time.  Heck, she's got almost 900 pages just in OP 
to develop the character of Ginny or anyone else.  (Wheeeee!)

> Why leave Ginny a 
> mystery?  Why not even hardly mention her in passing in the last 
half 
> of the last book?  

OK, I'm not an H/G shipper.  But if I *did* want to figure out how 
JKR was going to get from where she is now to Harry and Ginny gazing 
adoringly into each other's eyes in the last few chapters of the 
series, I would say:

Because there are 500 other things going on in this seven-part novel 
than the development of Harry's love life!

>It just seems to me that Ginny might really just 
> be a background character.  Maybe that's all there is to it.  

Very possible, but not by any means a certainty.  Where all these 
shippers get *their* certainty is a mystery to me, since the only 
couples I can see that are obvious are the married ones and Hagrid 
and Maxime.  And, of course, Harry and Millicent.  That one's a dead 
cert.

;-)
Amy Z