[HPforGrownups] It's time to defend Ginny! (some SHIP)

[Susanne]

No: HPFGUIDX 52378



Hi,

Monday, February 17, 2003, 11:45:49 AM, Penny wrote:

> Well, one of my points has always been that Ginny *isn't* acting her
> age in much of the canon descriptions of her!  Yes, her crush is an
> accurate depiction of a crush for a girl her age (but, again, it's
> just a *crush* ...... it's not based on anything really, which makes
> the whole "it's *obvious* that Harry will pair up with Ginny thing
> very annoying to me).

Again, I just want to say that I don't really care one way
or another, if Ginny and Harry get together <g>.

Anyway:

maybe her "crush" (which should have worn off by now, if
nothing else sustained it) has evolved over the years?

By now, Ginny definitely knows Harry a lot better and her
feelings might now be based on *something*.

> But, if you compare Ginny to members of the Trio in the previous
> book, you'll find Ginny's characterization to be really off.  Well,
> maybe let's compare oranges to oranges and not compare Ginny to Harry
> or Ron.  Let's just compare Ginny's behavior and dialogue in CoS with
> Hermione in PS/SS.  Or, compare PoA Ginny with CoS Hermione.  In each
> case, Ginny appears to me to have been characterized as drastically
> younger than she is chronologically speaking.

I'm not sure what the problem would be with Ginny being
characterized younger than her age.

My own daughter is one of the oldest in her grade, but
she's "young" for her age.

Do we know Ginny's birthday?
I see Hermione as one of the oldest in her year, maybe Ginny
is young for her's?

People have different personalities, even if they are in the
same house. Just look at the range we have in Harry's year
alone. I haven't seen Lavender do anything particularly
brave, yet, or Dean and Seamus...
Hermione is great at theory, but tends to freeze under
pressure.

Also, Ginny is the youngest (and maybe last) child, and only
girl in the family.
There *could* be some babying going on here. Keep the last
one sticking close as long as possible...

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 Susanne                           mailto:siskiou at earthlink.net