[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: Ginny/Harry

[Erika L.]

No: HPFGUIDX 116180

"legobaty29 wrote:

>I haven't found any previous references to this but please tell me
>everyone else thinks Harry and Ginny will get together!

>IMO she is a young Lily Potter - red hair, feisty (in OotP she really
>comes out of her shell).

Well I should point out that some have also suggested certain parallels between Hermione and Lily as well-- both are Muggle-borns and Hermione will, in all likelihood, follow in Lily's footsteps and become Head Girl.

Personally I shy away from making shipping arguments based on generational parallels, particularly after OoP in which the Pensieve scene turned a lot of these generational parallels upside-down.

Remember in PoA, Harry has a dream in which he imagines Peter Pettigrew looking like Neville? However, we find out in OoP that Neville has far more backbone than the snivelling Wormtail we see in the Pensieve scene. Characters in the books have frequently 
compared Harry to his father, but we learn in OoP that James isn't quite as much like Harry as we might have thought previously. Also if you want to suggest that Hermione is a parallel to Lupin (both studious, both Prefects) then the difference them between also becomes apparent in the Pensieve scene when Lupin refuses to even try to rein in James and Sirius whereas Hermione was perfectly willing to stand up to the twins in OoP and, at several points in the series, stands up to Ron and Harry.

Personally I think Rowling spent the first four books working up these parallels, inviting the reader to compare the younger generation and the older and make assumptions just so that there would be more impact when she tore all these parallels down in OoP.

So basically the short answer is that I'm wary of comparing Ginny to Lily.


Best,
Erika (Wolfraven)
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