OOP: spoiler... Ginny coming of age

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No: HPFGUIDX 63912

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vecseytj" <vecseytj at t...> 
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> in oop Ginny is the seeker of the G-quidditch team.  I'm sorry I 
can't
> find the page were she is talking to Harry and telling him she is
> hoping next year she can be a chaser on the G-quidditch team.  And
> Harry kept saying I'm banned for LIFE... from playing quiditch.  
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> Was it just me or did Ginny seem very mature, telling Harry her 
plans
> and taking the burden off him next year of knocking Ginny out of her
> seeker spot on the team?  She tells him first she would like to be a
> chaser.... 
> 
> But, I also had a odd thought that maybe
> Harry might want to be a beater (oops is that what they are called
> with the bats?  Fred and George's spots on the team?)  ... my head 
is
> starting to fog with all of the posts that I have read.. all of 
which
> are great by the way...
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> I thought that Ginny must be a good seeker she kept catching it.. 
and
> Wood told
> Harry a log time ago (book 1) that he was good with a bat and would
> have made a good beater.  I think that Harry likes to be on the
> Quidditch team not just the star seeker.  
> 
> But,  it's just an odd
> thought and was wondering if anyone else noticed how Ginny made it a
> point to talk to Harry and reassure him that she is not taking
> quiddich from him .. and she seems to be the only one to reasure 
Harry
> that the life time bann from quidditch is only as long as Prof
> Umbridge is at Hogwarts.  She seems fairly sure that evil Umbridge 
is
> gonna get kicked out, 
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> While Harry is struggling with lots of issures
> that 15 year olds would have a tough time with ie: getting kicked 
off
> the school team... having to write lines like a first year and them
> realizing that Umbridge's quill is using Harry's own blood... and 
the
> humilation of being told not to tell lies as  if he were a baby... 
and 
> to top it off:
> DD is not looking him in the eye nor speaking to him. This has got 
to
> be hard to take, because DD alway gave Harry security is each of the
> other books that was where Harry ran too DD's office... but this 
year
> Harry felt he didn't even have that.. oh and lest I forget Harry 
also
> felt dirty and contaminated because he felt LV had taken over his
> mind.. and Ginny was the only one who could talk to him about that
> too.. Having had her mind taken over by LV.  Both of them being
> victims of the same evil man... She helped Harry alot in the oop... 
I
> really felt for Harry but,
> I also really started to like Ginny.  More so than before, in the 
gof
>  all she seemed to do was giggle.
> 
> Thanks Tj

I agree she does seem older in this book, more mature perhaps is a 
better way to say it; however what I see her doing seems more of what 
a sister might do for her brother, so perhaps in her coming of age 
she is seeing him as the other members of the Weasley have for a 
while, as a member of the family rather then she did in CoS as 
someone to someday date. 

Or could it be she is more mature and instead of childhood crush on 
Harry, Ginny tries to get him to see her in a new light, show her 
interest to him in a way she was unsure of how to do before, yet now 
as she is maturing she has become better able to control her emotions 
around him and show her interest by supporting him.

Which is perhaps more likely?