Cho; It's time to defend Ginny! (some SHIP)

[Shauna <wind3213@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52383

. Think about it - Harry is being Darcey 
> to Ginny's Elisabeth! The classic romantic story structure - the 
> aloof, even contemptous, male, who succumbs, by degrees, to 
the 
> deserving woman's inherent worth and charm. As a young 
teenager I 
> read quite a few Harlequin-type romantic books and almost all 
of them 
> were based on this basic dynamic (AFAIR). Of course, in these 
books 
> (and in P & P) the story is told from the woman's point of view. 
Here 
> we see what may be the same dynamic but from the male 
point of view - 
> which means that there really isn't much to tell, since Harry is 
> still at the not-noticing-the-girl stage. 
> Naama

Not to be nitpicky, but there are some serious flaws with this 
analogy.  

1) Darcy is explicitly contemptuous to Elizabeth in particular, 
calling her unattractive.  Harry isn't *contemptuous* of Ginny, he 
just prefers not to think about her.  Furthermore, how can Harry 
and Darcy even be compared, when Darcy's main fault is pride, 
something Harry completely lacks?

2) Ginny as Elizabeth - Elizabeth spent most of the book actively 
disliking Darcy, and making no secret of it.  When Darcy 
proposed to her, she was the one who turned *him* down.  It's 
only at the end that she realizes she loves him - and after their 
relationship has progressed to a far deeper stage than Harry 
and Ginny's is currently at.

3)  Elizabeth's main reason for disliking Darcy was the harm he 
had done to her sister.  So according to your analogy, Ginny 
should be currently hating Harry for something Harry did to one 
of her brothers.

I honestly don't see the analogy at all.  Sorry.

~ Shauna