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

[magicalme9]

No: HPFGUIDX 69949

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pennylin" <pennylin at s...> 
wrote:
> Hi --
> 
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.  
> 
Snip
> 
> 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................  

Agree with you Penny and yes, it's Hermione who gets him out of 
solitude, but then she wasn't at the hospital ward and didn't 
overhear that conversation on the extendable Ears. Probably she 
wouldn't have cared even IF she would've overheard it. The others 
maybe just didn't know what to do (lame excuse I realise). So, why 
didn't Ron or Ginny go and try to talk to Harry? It's not normal to 
leave someone for 24 hours sitting in a room. Was Ron scared that 
Harry is possessed? Can't really believe that. What about Ginny? Well 
I can't think of a reason why she wouldn't go except, that she didn't 
care enough or just thought that he was being childish? Don't like 
those ideas. What about the adults? Molly, Sirius, did they just 
decide to wait thinking that he would get over his brooding and come 
out of the room at some point? 
Okay, I forgot Hermione over my ecstasy at Ginny's mature reaction 
during the conversation, but Hermione deserves loads of credit in 
this situation as well.

magicalme (who can't decide between the H/H or G/H ship, especially 
after OoTP)