SHIP: Harry /Ginny. Was: Digest Number 6305

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 136332



Phoenixgod2000 wrote:

We waited half the damn book for Harry to make his move on Ginny and 
she cheats us out of the scene where he finally puts his moves on 
her? I hate Ginny. I hate the ship Harry/Ginny. But that scene, 
that walk that we were cheated out of could have been amazing. It 
could have sold me on their ship completely. It was bad writing 
that we didn't get to see it. It was cheating and it was more than 
slightly offensive to me. I don't want to buy books where I have to 
competely fill in the blanks with my own version of character 
development.

I would be even madder if it was a ship that I actually liked being 
shortchanged that way. I don't understand how any H/G fan could have 
been in the least bit satisfied by that overly vague interpretation 
of what they would be like together. Make the book ten pages longer 
next time and include a few scenes that make me actually like the 
girl you're pairing the hero of the story off with.

And for the record, there should only be one interpretation of the 
time Harry and Ginny spent together. That's what I'm paying her for. 
We should know what happened with them according to canon. Leaving 
it open to interpretation is, to put it kindly, silly. By that 
logic the Voldemort Harry confrontation should be done really 
vaguely too, just so people can wonder if Harry lived or died.



Lynda says:

I was not waiting for half the book for Harry to make his move on Ginny and them to get together.  I was reading the book to read the next to last chapter in the fantasy adventure story that JKR is writing in seven stages.  Who he ends up involved with romantically at the end of the story is a very small part of the story.  And it seems to me that too many people are treating this like the end of the story.  As for the small part of the story that is H/G being left to interpretation, that's fine with me.  And as far as canonicity goes in SS Ginny is introduced, and very excited about HP being on the train.  Hint #1 that she may be important in future books.  In CoS Ginny obviously has a crush on Harry, stands up for him to LM, then gets possessed by Voldie and is quite traumatized to say the least.  Nearly dies before the end of the book but is rescued by Harry.  Hint #2 that she may be important in the future.  In PoA not much is seen of her, probably because she's still recovering
 from being possessed and almost killed by LV.  In GoF Ginny is coming back into her own.  She and Hermione have obviously (reading between the lines here) become good friends by this time and Ginny is becoming more vivacious and spunky again.  She is still overawed by Harry and we now know that Hermione counsels her to go out with other boys, which she does.  Although some have chosen to interpret her going to the Yule ball with Neville as being because she was not attractive, there is nothing to indicate this in the text.  Neville just asked her before any other boys did, because she was nice to him.  In OotP Ginny is dating other boys and has gotten to the point that she can interact in a more normal manner than before with Harry.  She tries out for the Gryffindor quidditch team after her brothers and Harry are kicked off by Umbridge and starts asserting herself more in public.  Finally, in HBP, Harry notices her as more than his best friend's little sister.  She's not a little
 kid any more.  Does Harry have an attitude that he has to protect her from harm?  Yes--Ginny addresses it herself in the "breakup" section of the book.  Would it have been nice to see more scenes with the two of them?  Yes, but its nothing to cry over.  Its not a romance.  

 

Lynda