Ginny's reaction (WAS: Chapter Discussions Retitiled - Depression)

[pennylin]

No: HPFGUIDX 69592

Hi --

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dropaad" <dropaad at y...> wrote:
(loads of snipping)

> Most parents and adults react to children's emotional problems the 
> way Molly reacted - shielding them.  But emotional problem is a 
> beast different from any physical danger.  One can't shield them, 
> one can only address the issues head on.
> 
Magicalme said: <<<<<<Yes, yes, yes Dropaad (pauses to nod head some more and calm down). I liked Ginny's handling the situation as well. As Harry was shouting and shooting sparks everywhere, everyone else in the room - well Hermione and Ron - were looking at the floor worried or frightened or whatever and Ginny just looks straight at Harry saying (sth. like) "Well, you have been hiding and you just could've asked me..." and takes all the wind out of Harry's (angry) sales. She just acted  very maturely and (sort of) courageously, meaning she wasn't scared of Harry's emotional outburst.>>>>>>>>>

Er........not so fast.  

You're attributing Ginny with a bit too much credit here and forgetting Hermione's role entirely.  Here.  Let's replay the scene, because my inner H/H shipper really loves it:

SCENE: Harry is morose and hiding out from all inhabitants of Grimmauld Place (and has been for over 24 hrs).  Who knocks some sense into him?  Who forces him to confront humanity again?  *Hermione.*  Hermione, that's who.  Within minutes of arriving and with snow still in her hair, she is pounding on the door of the room he's been holed up in, demanding that he let her in.  "I know you're in there.  ... I want to talk to you."  Does Harry hesitate for even a *second*?  Nope.  Sure doesn't.  AND, as far as Harry is concerned based on what she tells him, he's going to be having a little private chat with just her over sandwiches in his room.  She doesn't say, "Come talk to me, Ron and Ginny."  No, she leads him away on the pretense of talking to her, which he does oh-so-willingly.  

There is a little FLINT here, btw.  

The timeline goes as follows:

-- Harry kisses Cho one evening near the end of term
-- Harry confesses to having kissed Cho, to Ron's hilarity and Hermione's slight frown (<g>)
-- Harry goes to bed.  Dreams first of Cho, who morphs into Hermione (hmmmmmmm) and then has the experience of being in tune with Voldemort's feelings as Voldemort possesses a snake and attacks Arthur Weasley
-- Harry sounds the alarm and all the Weasley children, plus him, go via Portkey to Grimmauld Place
-- The next morning, Molly arrives to tell them Arthur will be okay
-- That afternoon, they visit St. Mungo's
-- That late afternoon and evening, Harry shuts himself off, refusing dinner
-- The *next* morning he is still shut off
-- That evening at 6:00 is when Hermione arrives, yet she says that Dumbledore told her what happened first thing *this* morning and she had to wait for term to end officially before setting off for Grimmauld Place via the Knight Bus.  

Someone is wrong here.  If term ended the day after Harry kissed Cho, then there's an extra 24 hrs in there where Hermione must have presumably met her parents and then abandoned them.  If term ends 2 days after Harry kissed Cho, then Hermione presumably owled her parents to say she wouldn't be joining them at all and probably went a bit spare while waiting to see Harry.  

ANYWAY.  Not to discredit what Ginny says to Harry, which *is* certainly appropriate and all well and good (I tend to agree that this is as much as we're going to see of the much-vaunted "connection" between Harry and Ginny).  But: Hermione was most certainly *not* "looking at the floor worried or frightened or whatever."  *RON* is.  But, not Hermione.  Hermione says sharply at one point, "Oh stop feeling all misunderstood," and then Ginny takes over.  Hermione isn't out of it though.  In the midst of Harry's recognition that he hasn't been possessed, she reminds them all again about the fact that you can't apparate or disapparate off the Hogwarts grounds.  Typical Hermione, of course.  

Penny
defending H/H and Hermione specifically since 2000................  




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