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

[ongj87]

No: HPFGUIDX 136352

>delwynmarch  wrote:
>
>16.8. "I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting 
>LV". Happy... Seems like Ginny isn't the most important thing
>in Harry's life indeed.

>Lynn:
>
>And when my husband told me, after 9/11, that if asked he would 
>be volunteering to go into a war zone (he's in the military), it 
>never occurred to me that I or our daughter weren't the most 
>important things in life to him.  Sometimes in life, there are 
>things that are just important to do no matter who you have to 
>leave behind.

ongj87: 

I'd like to add to this by saying that Harry has two choices.  He 
can either stay with Ginny, not go after Voldemort, and let 
everybody die (including himself and Ginny), or he can go after Voldemort and sacrifice time spent with Ginny, possibly be killed, and save the world... HMMM...  Well, I don't know about you, but I think that it would have been utterly ridiculous if Harry had NOT chosen the latter.  Maybe it's just me.

Also responding to:

>Lynn wrote:
>"A big point of the scene wasn't Ginny or even the Kiss, it was 
>how Ron would react to the ship."

>Del replies:
>Except that we readers already knew that he would approve: he
>literally tried to shove Ginny into Harry's arms at the end of 
>OoP. 


First of all, the books are written from Harry's point of view, 
and Harry has a problem catching onto things sometimes.  The small 
reference made by Ron at the end of Oop might not have been enough 
to make an impression on Harry.  And Harry wasn't seeking Ginny at 
this point so there wouldn't have been a reason for Harry to pick 
this up.  And at any rate, if Harry had picked up on it, that would 
have ruined the the whole thing now wouldn't it have?

The point of Ron's reaction wasn't meant to solve some sort of 
mystery for us, because we're not as dull-witted as Harry in these 
emotional matters.  Of course we knew that Ron wanted them 
together.  The point was seeing Harry realize this, and getting 
that warm fuzzy feeling inside that for once (in this tragedy 
ridden book) everything was A OK. ^^

ongj87