Harry, Ginny and me (was : Harry, Ginny, and age appropriateness...)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 136178

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> I'm getting sick of it... I'm being attacked on things that I
> specifically said I don't believe in, my hypothetical counter-
examples
> are misused as representations of my true beliefs, and in the 
meantime
> the real subject I wanted to talk about is not being addressed. So
> here's a recapitulative list of what I do and don't believe, and 
what
> my real issues with the H/G romance are.

<snipped>
 
> 2. I *NEVER* ASKED HP TO BE TURNED INTO A ROMANCE.

<snipped>

Geoff:
I suddenly realised that I may possibly have made an unconscious 
prediction.

Having been prompted by Del's note 2 above to look back in my archive 
of posts, I realised that in message 132476, which I posted on 
11/07/05 (i.e. 5 days efore H-Day), I wrote:

'I shall go into maverick mode at this point.

Why has Harry got to have a girl friend at this point in time? Why 
can't he remain a bachelor boy for the moment?

Looking at the members of my church boys' club, who are aged about 
the same as Harry in the OOTP/HBP time frame, quite a number of them 
have not got girl friends... yet.

Again, it will be very frustrating for any girl if, in the middle of 
getting a kiss from the Boy Who Lived, he breaks off and exits with a 
cursory: 'Excuse me. I have to go and kill Voldemort now. I'll see
you later.' :-)"

Coming from a member who doesn't travel by sea :-) I must have had a 
visionary moment!