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

[starjackson1]

No: HPFGUIDX 145053

> h2so3f <h2so3f at y...> wrote:
> > It isn't so much that Ginny had changed as Harry finally 
> > noticing her.
>  
> Hickengruendler:
> <snip> I can't really point to the exact reason, why I think 
> so, but I know that Ginny's development did not ring true 
> for me and still doesn't. One reason might be, that some 
> explanations for her behaviour are simply impossible (secret 
> Quidditch training), another one that JKR overdid it to make 
> Ginny seem like the best thing ever for Harry (though that's
> rather a problem of HBP, IMO) or that most of Ginny's 
> development was indeed only told in retrospective. 


"starjackson1":
Actually, Ginny's personality "change" (if it can be called that) 
was explained in HBP - Ginny told Harry something to the effect 
that Hermione had told her just to relax, and be herself and 
everything would fall into place with Harry.

So that is just what Ginny did! More of her personality came 
through when she wasn't tippy toeing around Harry. And Harry 
started to notice her when she quit playing the love-struck 
younger sister of his best friend.

When I go home tonight I'll find the chapter and page where that 
conversation is!