SHIP: Why I Hate H/G [To Whom It May Concern]

[Lilac]

No: HPFGUIDX 54555

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Erica" <cymru1ca at y...> wrote:
> I own that (rightly or wrongly) part of the reason that I dislike 
H/G 
> is that it smacks too much of the Cinderella complext.  "Where is 
my 
> knight, in armour bright,To save me from this desperate plight?"  
> Give me 'The Paper Bag Princess' over Cinderella anyday.
> 
> Erica

Oh, how I love that story!  _The Paperbag Princess_ by Robert 
Munsch, Annick Press LTD., Toronto, CA ISBN 0-920236-16-2 PP 21-23

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"[Prince Ronald] looked at her and said, "Elizabeth, you are a 
mess!  You smell like ashes, your hair is all tangled and you are 
wearing a dirty old paper bag.  Come back when you are dressed like 
a real princess."

"Ronald," said Elizabeth, "your clothes are really pretty and your 
hair is very neat.  You look like a real prince, but you are a bum."

They didn't get married after all.
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Hmmm...something about those two pages seems awfully familiar...

******USHC GOF PP 399-400******
"We're the only ones left who haven't got anyone -- well, except 
Neville.  Hey -- guess who he asked?  Hermione!"

"What?" said Harry, completely distracted my this startling news.  

"Yeah, I know!" said Ron, some of the color coming back into his 
face as he started to laugh.  "He told me right after Potions!  Said 
she's always been really nice, helping him out with work and stuff --
 but she told him she was already going with someone.  Ha!  As if!  
She just didn't want to go with Neville...I mean, who would?"

"Don't!" said Ginny, annoyed.  "Don't laugh -- "

Just then Hermione climbed in through the portrait hole.

"Why weren't you two at dinner?" she said, coming over to join them.

"Because -- oh, shut up laughing, you two -- because they've both 
just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!" said Ginny.

That shut Harry and Ron up.
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And they didn't go to the ball after all (since she was already 
asked by Neville).

Give the poor girl some slack...she's a Weasley, after all.  She'll 
come off okay in the end.  She's a survivor!  

Okay, who am I kidding...I know that the H/H position needs to cast 
doubt upon Ginny as a potential love interest, so her name will 
continue to be dragged through the mud until JKR provides us with 
much-needed Ginny page time.  There's so little about her, it's 
really all speculation and biased interpretation until the real 
goods are delivered.  
   
~Lilac, who loves children's picture books almost as much as HP