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

[Jim Ferer <jferer@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52310

Judy:"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."

Pippin:"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."

I agree with Pippin, and I think it doesn't work here to put Ginny's
actions under a microscope. We know she's infatuated with him. How
many thirteen year olds write perceptive, insightful, emotionally
intimate Valentines?

We know little of Ginny, but I get the sense (and I can't defend it)
that Ginny's a little young for her age. It's plausible; she's the
youngest of five and the only girl. It's also not a big problem if
it's true, because time takes care of those things. The upside for her
is that she knows boys and their ways from close association.

If Harry and Ginny ever become an item, I would guess it may well
start during an extended stay at the Burrow.  Nothing propinks like
propinquity, and he may have ample opportunity to notice how her
freckles show up in the summer sun, and how they laughed in the
Weasley's garden.  She has a better shot there than at Hogwarts, where
Harry's time is generally taken up keeping himself in one piece and
having adventures with his Trio-mates.

I also have a soft spot for H/G because of the OBHWF thing, which most
people think is too saccharine for words. Too bad, 'cuz he's going to
need a fairy-tale ending by the time this hell he's in is over.

Jim Ferer, who also thinks having Molly Weasley for a mother is a good
sign.