Ginny's development (was: SHIP: Harry and Hermione)

[suehpfan]

No: HPFGUIDX 92626

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> other than this, I had many problems with her characterisation: At 
> the end of book 4, Ginny was basically the same character she was 
in 
> CoS. And then Harry came back after one month (it might have seemed 
> to Harry as a very long moth, but it was still only a month) and 
> Ginny is suddenly all cool and outgoing and as funny as the twins? 
> And later we are told she was always this way. Ginny steals 
> broomsticks to train for Quidditch. We didn't saw this but were 
told 
> by Hermione. Her brothers were told about this by Hermione, too, 
> which leads to the fact, that I should believe, that Ginny was 
> secretly training to fly for years, without Arthur, Molly, Percy, 
> Fred, George and Ron noticing. For years. Regularly. Are the 
Weasleys 
> all blind? Harry not noticing such things I have to accept, but all 
> the other characters, too? And I wished somehow had made a comment, 
> how strong and cool Ginny is, before book 5. Then, all we got was 
Ron 
> telling us, that she normally never shuts up, and now, we should 
> believe, that her bad-bogey hexes are famous. It's as if I would 
read 
> about two different characters, who by accident have the same 
> name.    
> 
> Hickengruendler

Sue here:

I think it is jumping to conclusions to assume Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, 
Charlie or Bill had no knowledge of the flying Ginny.  I can imagine 
Molly in the yard hollering up over  her head, "No dear, you have fly 
a little lower to get a good shot on goal!  Here comes the bludger, 
watch for it..."etc.  Ginny was home for a year while the middle four 
were at school and we have no idea what she did in her spare time.  
learning to fly and play Quidditch would have been a good use of it. 
As far as sneaking the brooms, why not?  I have sisters, we just had 
a good laugh about all of the times we borrowed things from one 
another and took them out of the house by stealth.  It's a 
sibling "thing". 

My thought at the beginning of OotP about Ginny was oh goody, our 
little girl is growing up, I bet she has a boyfriend.  Nothing like a 
new beau to give a girl more confidence around an old crush.

Obviously I bought the change hook, line and sinker.  Personally, I 
had a whole lot more trouble adjusting to the new Harry.

Sue