Cool!Ginny; Ginny a Marked Woman?

[pennylin]

No: HPFGUIDX 69048

Hi --

Marilyn said: <<<<I've heard this from many--a unsettled feeling at all the abrupt coolness characterization for Ginny--but I definitely feel that it makes sense given the context of the situation.  There wasn't *un*cool characterization of her before, just shyness due to the mad crushin'. Plenty of people took to Ginny negatively because of her lack of backbone, etc., but Harry really paid very little attention to her
beyond wanting to avoid undue awkwardness, and as we get the story from
Harry's perspective, I think it is perfectly reasonable that we know
little about Ginny until she finally gets over her obsession with Harry
and becomes normal around him.  Maybe it did take her too long to grow
up and out of it, but I can definitely recognize the teenage need to
remodel yourself.>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes, Rachel makes the same basic "Harry's POV" point, but the problem with that from my perspective is that all this coolness isn't so much *noticed by* Harry as much as it is *told to* Harry through other characters.  We don't see Harry interacting with Ginny as much as we see Harry (and the readers) having these tidbits of Ginny thrown at us.  So, the characterization still seems like cheating to me.  And, I just found the whole "oh, I can make Ginny into anything I want because Harry never noticed her in the previous 4 books" line to be lame.  Even without making Ginny into a fully developed character in earlier books we could have been given some *hints* about her.  Rowling supposedly has all the characters fully worked out in her notes .......so it shouldn't have been hard to throw in a little reference to Fred and George having noticed that Ginny plays Quidditch alot during the summers, unbeknownst to their parents.  Or something.   

GINNY a MARKED WOMAN?  I suddenly wondered whether there is any significance to the immediate mental link I had between Sirius as a dog bounding down the platform after the Hogwarts Express as it pulled out, barking madly, and little Ginny running and crying after the Hogwarts Express in the beginning of PS/SS?  Could it be that Ginny will have the same fate?  Sometimes these linkages do mean something.  

I said: > We on the H/H ship just absolutely love OoP.  We think our ship is > poised to leave the dock in fact. 

Marilyn: <<<Tell me about it!  My fiancee can't stop talking about how obviously made-for-eachother Harry and Hermione are after OoP.  My house is a war-torn seascape.>>>>>>>>>>>>

Tell your fiancee that he is welcome aboard the H/H Ship anytime!  :--)  

Penny



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