SHIP: Where is the canon about Harry and Ginny?

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 135926

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "grindieloe" <andie1 at e...> 
wrote:
> 
> > > delwynmarch  wrote:
> > > am asking for is "show me where it says that the *romance* 
> between
> > > Harry and Ginny is such a great thing".
> 
> 
> 
> Okay, Harry and Ginny, the romance... I don't see why we need to 
SEE 
> exactly what happens between Harry and Ginny.  After all, in mature 
> relationships, normally the intimate moments are not completely 
> shown to others.  It's what is not seen that builds the intimacy 
> between people.  With that being said, we have to remember that HP 
> is a children's series as well.  JK cannot possibly write the juicy 
> details for us when children are reading!  

Hickengruendler:

This is already my fourth post today and I promise it will be my 
last, but I want to adress this, because I now already saw this in at 
least three posts. I don't think what delwynmarch means is, that we 
should see some "juicy details" about Harry and Ginny or any 
implication that they had sex. Personally, I don't care at all if 
they had or hadn't, neither, I think, did anyone else, who was 
disappointed with the way H/G was written. At least I can't remember 
anyone raising this topic.  

What I, and I think also delwynmarch wanted to see is *interaction*. 
We want to see *why* those weeks were among the best in Harry's life, 
and I do not think that is asked for too much. How do Harry and Ginny 
as a couple spent their time? What makes their relationship so 
special? This has nothing with sex or any juicy details. I also don't 
think we needed to see a detailed account of everything they did 
during their time together. Just one scene that shows why exactly 
Ginny is that special for Harry. What I see through their scenes is 
that Harry lusted after Ginny because she's hot, and that Ginny still 
had the crush on the Boy Who Lived instead of Harry, because she 
never gave up on him in the first place. The question if Ginny had or 
hadn't seen his naked chest is completely irrelevant for me, because 
even she has, it would not have made this relationship in any way 
deeper necessarily.

And the arguments that these aren't romance novels doesn't really 
convince me, since we spent much more screentime for the Harry/Cho 
couple, and since Harry Potter is also a coming-of-age story, even if 
the romance only plays second fiddle.  

Hickengruendler