I Hate Ginny Weasley!!!! Mass Response

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 122586


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delemtri" <olivertraldi at g...> 
wrote:
 
> 
> In the end, there's a very good reason why we don't see much with 
> Ginny and why her transformation seems sudden: the "elbow in the 
> butter dish" problem. She *doesn't act the same way around Harry as 
> she acts around anybody else* and we *never* see her without Harry. 
> (This is another reason why being told secondhand is effective!)
> 
> Oliver

Hickengruendler:

I agree with you, but on the other hand I don't agree with you *g*. I 
think you're right in what you're saying above, and that we can't 
only judge Ginny by the way she's acting around Harry. After all, 
imagine how pre-OotP Harry would look, if the story were told through 
the eyes of Cho. I'll only say *Wangoballmeme*.

However, JKR decided to tell the story from Harry's point of view. 
And in doing so, she IMO also has to live with the problems, this way 
of storytelling has. She, as the author, has to make the character 
development believable for the readers, even if we don't know more 
about the characters than the protagonist does. And Ginny is the only 
character, with whom she failed for me. I know that she's the hardest 
to write, since she has a Crush on Harry and therefore acts shyer 
around him than she ususally does. But nonetheless the presentataion 
of her "new" personality does not really convince me, and IMO even 
very minor characters like Ernie MacMillan had a much more convincing 
development.

Hickengruendler