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

[Maria Kirilenko]

No: HPFGUIDX 52343


Judy wrote about Ginny:
My point was not that she hadn't suffered in this situation.  My 
point was that her reaction conflicted with what we've been lead to 
believe are the fundamental qualitities of a Gryffindor--bravery, 
being prime among them.  For her to babble on between intermmitent 
tears about being expelled and not even bother to ask a blood-soaked 
Harry if he'd been hurt or have the presence of mind to have a look 
about to see how they might get out, is either a big lapse in JKR's 
plotting continuity or a deliberate clue to Ginny's character.  In 
either case, she is helpless.  And in so doing becomes here one of 
the worst kinds of female stereotype.  She offers no help to Harry 
in leaving the Chamber, She cries all the way back to where Ron is 
then Ron has to pull her through the gap in the rocks (now, by the 
way "crying harder than ever")  The only thing she manages to do is 
hold Ron's hand as Fawkes takes them back up through the tunnels. 

Me:
There’s nothing wrong or weak with Ginny having a cry. She is only 11 years old,

moreover, she’s been possessed by Tom Riddle for several months before being taken into

the Chamber of Secrets and almost getting killed. 

 

Hermione did not have that sort of

experience in PS. I think that had she been held captive by the troll in that bathroom from

Halloween to June, she’d be in an even worse state than Ginny. 

 

I don’t see how we can expect for to be all calm and composed after Harry destroys the

diary. But Ginny’s resistance to Riddle’s charms and persuasion is really admirable, even

though it failed at the end. *That* was bravery - standing up to him. How is not crying brave?

 

As for not asking Harry is he's OK - Ginny, I repeat, is a *child* who's just had a very long and traumatic experience. She's just not in a condition to think about others.

 

Maria



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