Significance of Ginny

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Phoenixgod:
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> I actually find it kind of offensive that Harry is going to *need* a 
> woman to defeat Voldemort.  Why can't he do it by himself? I think 
> whatever is going to allow Harry to find victory is going to be 
> found from with Harry himself.  It's Harry's name alone on the series 
> and I think the final blow is going to come from Him alone. Perhaps 
> with spirtual aid from his parents, but essentially alone.
> 
> That having been said, I think that Ginny is going to serve some 
> larger purpose. I personally think that a fragment of Voldemort's 
> essence is lodged with Ginny and without it he is less than whole. 
> It's my prediction Voldemort is going to kidnap Ginny at some point 
> in the last book and spark off the final battle towards the end of 
> the school year. So, indirectly Ginny is important, but only as a 
> vehicle for Voldemort's power that he needs to reclaim.  Her status 
> as a female Weasley is incidental except for it led to her crush on 
> Harry and the easy in that Tom Riddle exploited.
> 
> As for them being soul mates?  *shivers* God, I hope not.
> 
> phoenixgod2000

Antosha: 

I will happily agree to disagree with you on the subject of Ginny in general and JKR's 
development of her character in particular. I can see where you're coming from though, of 
course, I disagree...

As to why there _has_ to be a woman involved in Harry's defeat of LV... Well, I'm gonna try 
to avoid getting all Jungian here, but it's going to be tough. 

Let's call it symmetry, okay?

Harry _exists_ because of his mother's love. We know his father died to save him too, but 
that's not the sacrifice that is stressed by DD or JKR: it's Lily's death that provided the 
protection that kept Harry alive (exactly how, we still don't know).

Unfortunately, since her early exit, Harry has been completely cut off from the feminine 
principal for most of the rest of his life. Aunt Petunia? Aunt Marge? Please.

Beginning with meeting the kindly Mrs. Weasley (and daughter and sons) on Platform 9 3/
4 his first year, Harry has slowly been attempting to integrate girls into his life, not just 
because they're fascinating creatures to him--which they are--but because they represent 
a side of Harry _himself_ that he is just getting to know. A side, btw, that Tom Riddle 
_never_ came to know.

His experiments have had mixed results. ONe of his best friends is a girl, and Harry has, in 
fact, been more at ease with Hermione's blossoming than Ron--and the shipping types 
can make hay with that on either side. His obsession with Cho, on the other hand, was an 
unmitigated disaster.

Ginny and Luna (and possibly Susan Bones) are the girls who seem to have some sort of 
common language of experience with Harry. They are the ones I can actually see him 
getting close enough to so that he realizes more to himself than the limited stereotypical 
boy viewpoint... I think this is, in part, the power the Dark Lord knows not.

As for your idea about LV kidnapping Ginny to retrieve the part of himself that was placed 
there by the diary.... That's a REALLY interesting idea! And not disconsonant with the one 
I've mentioned above....

Soul mates... Well, all literary couples are soul mates of a sort. But the most interesting 
(Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy or Benedick and Beatrice or even Romeo and Juliet) are as 
interesting for what separates them as what drives them together... And I can see that 
argument supporting any of the girls I mentioned above....

Though my money's still on Ginevra when all's said and done.

Antosha, who's not a betting man.