SHIP: Harry, Ginny and me accepting Del's challenge

[Lawrence Carlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 136324

> Del replies:
> No, she can't. But that's precisely why I have a
> problem with her
> *expecting* that all her readers will be able to
> fill in the blanks in
> the H/G romance.


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> 
> But Harry and Ginny are major characters, and their
> romance is a major
> event in the hero's life. So the fact that JKR
> didn't take any measure
> to ensure that a vast majority of her readers would
> understand their
> romance and relate to it seems like a major overlook
> to me.


Larry replies:

As a careful author, it would be unlikely for JKR to
commit such a "major overlook" for such an important
part of Harry's life. Even the infatuation with Cho is
explored; feelings are shared, at least by Cho, there
are conversations, even the fiasco of that infamous
date.

So why is so much left unsaid in the H/G ship?
Throughout the series JKR has given us some
information directly, through description or
conversation, and some information indirectly through
clues, hints, or various other subtle means.

Along these lines, I like to think that JKR is drawing
a distinction between the shallow, transitory nature
of the Ron/Lavender ship, and the deeper, richer and
ultimately more lasting H/G ship.

Keeping in mind the inherent limitation that what we
know is from Harry's POV, consider as an example P.
410 Am. Ed., where Lavender attempts to corner Harry
into "lots of in depth chats with him about ron's
feelings,...". The implication here seems to me is
that Lavender had been, and would like to now engage
poor Ron in endless conversations about the state of
their relationship. My feeling is that JKR believes
this to be a sigh of a shallow, short lived and
immature infatuation.

Compare this to H/G. There are no insecurities, hence
no need to verbalize the ship, there is absolutely no
need to seek reassurance as there would be in a less
secure ship. Volumes are spoken in a glance or a
touch; the very lack of any relationship blather is
JKR's indirect hint, through behavior and not
dialogue, of the rightness and permanance of the H/G
ship.

Larry