SHIP Re: Harry, Ginny, and age appropriateness / Abusive Harry (combined answer)

[lunamk03]

No: HPFGUIDX 136103

 Ellyddan wrote: If you want to think about this way, think instead
that I'm picketting for Ginny's rights to an honest to
goodness chance to shine as something more than a
cardboard cutout.  The only way we would have been
given the chance, would haven been to see Ginny rather
than just be told what she is like. 
 
 
Luna:
I agree with most of what you said, but I it is unfair to say that Jo 
didn't show Ginny or Ginny growing into Harry's equal. Jo did show 
some of Ginny's character. She did show us Ginny in COS defending 
Harry from Draco, even with her crush she already knew that Harry 
didn't enjoy all that publicity. We see them twice making eye contact 
and silently laugh at certain situations (POA, when Percy saw 
Penelope in the train station and OOP, when Hermione was trying to be 
nice with Luna). We see her standing by her compromise to go to the 
ball with Neville when she had the choice to dump Neville and go with 
Harry (the girl has moral fibre). Then we see her in OOTP being nice 
to Luna and Neville, not allowing Neville to think that he's 
a "nobody." We see her putting Harry in his place more than once in 
OOP (she can control and put an angry Harry in his place), we see her 
giving Harry hopes to talk to Sirius (allowing Harry to make his own 
choices), we see her in the DA, we see her being brave in the face of 
pain in the DOM (just like Harry does). We also see a lot of 
foreshadowing to H/G. I knew H/G was coming and was looking forward 
to it. 

I agree that romance is not THE central theme in the books. I think 
that Love in its purest (Agape) form is the power to vanquish 
Voldemort. I think that Jo is putting Ginny there to somehow help 
advance the plot in book 7 and to later provide Harry with what he 
has been craving for all his life: a family, his own family with his 
wife, who is his equal, and his kids. The problem is that we don't 
get to see enough of the relationship in itself and here is where I 
agree 100% with what you said. I knew Ginny was fitted for Harry, I 
knew they were going to fall for each other but I would have liked to 
see some of it developing. I liked what Jo showed us, but I wanted 
one more dialogue, just a tiny detail where we get to see Ginny's 
expression through Harry's eyes... This is why it feels a little bit 
incomplete.


Luna