Ginny ,what we don't know for sure(Was:H/G and other unobvious SHIP alternat

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52297

Judy wrote:

>>But then, later, when Harry has to endure being taunted by 
nearly the entire school who believe him to be the Heir of 
Slytherin, she calls further negative attention to him by sending 
him a singing-- SINGING valentine. (I realize this was a device to 
get Harry to drop his books and smash his ink bottle) But, the 
contents of the valentine again emphasize his looks and his 
celebrity as her reasons for caring for him. It would have been 
too, too easy for JKR to have tossed in a bit of H/G 
foreshadowing by having Ginny write an equally childish verse 
that pointed out his spirit and his courage or reminded everyone 
how he'd faced down Voldmort/Quirrell to save the Philosopher's 
Stone. She could have rhapsodized on his good 
manners--ANYTHING that showed she knew him beyond the 
superficial. 
Ginny is teased by her brothers, she knows that teasing hurts. 
How could she not know that he'd be teased and tormented 
further for having received a singing valentine?<<

Eh? The girl not only knows it's silly to be obsessed with 
someone's looks and reputation, she can poke fun at herself for 
it.  Do "really divine" heroes have eyes like a fresh pickled toad? 
The irony is so thick you could spread it on a bagel. ;-) 

When everybody is genuinely afraid that Harry is the Heir of 
Slytherin, Ginny reminds everyone, EVERYONE, that he's only 
human, and does it in a way that calls Draco's malice on her, not 
Harry. 

It's not as if Harry were the only one who was afflicted. "All day 
long, the dwarfs kept barging into their classes to deliver 
Valentines." Yeah, Harry doesn't like being teased, who does? 
But he hates it even more when people think he's so delicate 
they won't treat him like everyone else. It's no fun to be teased, 
but it can feel worse to be left out when everyone else is fair 
game. And nobody torments him about the Valentine. Everybody 
laughs, and Harry tries valiently to laugh with them. And really he 
brought a lot of it on himself. If the great hero hadn't tried to cut 
and run, it wouldn't have been so funny. Harry Potter, the Boy 
Who Lived, Slytherin's supposed Heir, felled by a dwarf in a 
Cupid costume. :D

 Ditto for the card Ginny sends him after the Dementors.  As 
much as we readers want to shower him with TLC, Harry hates 
it. I'm sure he's afraid that if he started feeling sorry for himself 
he'd never stop. It's interesting that Harry doesn't throw the card 
away, or ask Madame Pomfrey to get rid of it. He keeps it, albeit 
tucked under a bowl of fruit.

As for Ginny knowing Harry beyond the superficial, how can she? 
He's never given her the chance. We're privy to his inmost 
thoughts, she's not. 

>>>Kloves wrote the `are you O.K.?' question into the 
movie, because it seems so obvious, but it is not in the book.<<

What would be the use of her asking, Are you okay? The only 
answer is, of course yer not, but yeh will be. Such questions are 
asked to prompt comfort for the asker, or in the movie's case, the 
audience. They do no good to the one who's been hurt, unless  
first aid is required of course. But Fawkes has already taken care 
of that. 

Yes, she cries. Unlike Harry, she isn't too proud or too brittle to 
let her need for comfort show.  And though it seems as if she'll 
never stop, she does. That could be something Harry will learn 
from her, someday. And how do we know Ginny's tears at the 
end of CoS are for herself alone? She takes it for granted that 
she deserves punishment--that's hardly lack of concern. The 
words Dumbledore uses to comfort her, "There has been no 
permanent harm done, Ginny"  after he's already told her there 
will be no punishment, make no sense unless she was 
showing distress over the people in the hospital wing.

Pippin