SHIP! H/G indicators of Harry's feelings for Ginny (+ Emma)

[ronaldobartl]

No: HPFGUIDX 137340

"phoenixgod2000" <jmrazo at h...> wrote:
> Yeah, I agree with you. I doubt that H/G was born out of a love 
> potion. As entertaining as Stalker!Ginny can be I doubt it will be a 
> storyline. there are too many other more important things to go 
> over. 

Ronaldo:
Before reading the JKR interview,
my take on the potion smell + Ginny smell was a little
different:
It seems logical that for a love potion to work you
would have to add something of yourself, so the drinker 
fell in love with you, and not with the first person
he sees.
Now, the potion in class was still pure, and wouldt't
make you fall for anyone in particular. At the same time,
it made people sense "good" smells, to Harry smells 
associated with Quidditch or the Burrow. A (relatively) 
short time after that, Ginny arrives, smelling like
the flowers at the Burrow. Now there is something to
make the potion "connect" to someone. So perhaps the 
potion did do something, either creating a minor 
obsession in Harry's mind, or just opening his eyes 
to Ginny?
This is quite different than she using a potion in any
form, or another person doing it. In the above scenario,
the whole thing is an accident. Perhaps the potion is
stronger than usual, perhaps Harry inhaled too much of 
it, who knows...

After reading the interview, at first I thought "ok,
H/G is what JKR wanted all the time, I can live with that",
but then I noticed that, later in the same interview, she
says "they were going to come together and then part".
So maybe there is something different happening in BK7.
I think people that ship something different than H/G
may have some (little) hope, after all ?


"phoenixgod2000" <jmrazo at h...> wrote:
<snip>
> guess that H/L could be a ship that would sail.  Even in HBP which 
> was dominated by Harry's unrequited lust for Ginny, the only actual 
> date we see him go on in the book is with Luna. What's that about?
>  
Ronaldo:
My feelings exactly. And he didn't just dump her in
the party, they were even holding hands for a while...
All in all, he did ask her on impulse, it wasn't like
"she is my last resort to escape Romilda & co", and
although relieved that she didn't wear her usual
"jewelery", it seems he was prepared to accept if
she decided to wear it...

"phoenixgod2000" <jmrazo at h...> wrote:
<snip>
> She didn't explicitly state her pov until after HBP was printed.

Ronaldo:
I think JKR has a ball reading all teories (sp.
shipping teories) and in this book may actually 
have put a few tidbits just to spice the
discussions :-)

Ronaldo