Ginny's Role in Book 7 (was: Re: Four ponderings)

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No: HPFGUIDX 144964

Betsy Hp wrote: 
"What bothered me was the sudden personality change. And let me 
emphasize the word change. I feel that Ginny had one personality up 
to and through GoF, and then became an entirely different girl in 
OotP.
Pre-OotP Ginny was more like Ron and Percy and Arthur. When pushed, 
she had a temper, but she wasn't aggressive and she wasn't cruel. 
After OotP, and especially in HBP she became more like her mother 
and the twins."


CH3ed:
I don't think we saw enough of Ginny in the previous book to be able 
to say that she had a personality change from OotP on. Even back in 
CoS we knew from Ron that Ginny became very quite and shy in Harry's 
presence, but when Harry wasn't around "she never shut up." We also 
saw from the Platform 9and 3/4 scene in PS/SS that she seemed to be 
closer to the twins than to Ron. The twins even said they would send 
her Hogwarts' toilet seat. But we didn't see much of Ginny until she 
cooled off Harry after GoF and Harry started to notice her more. As 
others have observed, the story is told from Harry's POV so this 
makes perfect sense. It isn't so much that Ginny had changed as 
Harry finally noticing her.


Betsy Hp:
"It didn't bother me hugely in OotP. But HBP continued the trend, 
unfortunately. There were times during HBP where I quite liked 
Ginny and was pleased for her and Harry. But there were other times 
that I thought, Harry had best get his inner-Slytherin in hand 
because he's gonna need it to deal with this girl. (Though Ginny 
does think Harry hung the moon, so he's got a bit of an advantage 
going in.)"


CH3ed:
I think we should cut Ginny's foul mood in HBP a bit of a slack tho. 
She was irritated by Fleur's constant presence at The Burrow. And it 
seems Molly used Ginny as Fleur cushion quite a bit since everybody 
else was engaged (Arthur and Bill work, and Ron had his 2 best 
friends over, that only left Ginny to keep Molly company with 
Fleur). And at school Ron was interfering with Ginny's love life.

CH3ed is very happy the Potter books aren't turning into a romance 
series. :O)