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

[Berit Jakobsen]

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hickengruendler wrote:
But it's nearly as if we got nothing about Ginny in the first four 
books, and then suddenly everything in book 5.

Berit replies:

As I pointed out in an earlier post, there is a subtle development of 
Ginny's character during the first four books, but I suspect most 
readers have overlooked them because she is never in the front line 
of action (not even in CoS do we see much of her even though she was 
quite important to the plot...). We only notice Ginny's blushing and 
subconsciously bypass the small details thrown in showing her 
laughing, being mischievous, talking, having a life outside of 
Harry's head... Maybe Rowling wanted us to?

The HP-lexicon has an essay by "Water Witch" on Ginny. The author's 
theory is that Rowling intentionally didn't reveal too much of 
Ginny's true nature in the first books... Read it, it's very 
interesting! Here's the url: http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essays/essay-
harry-ginny.html

Berit
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