I Hate Ginny Weasley!!!! Mass Response

evita2fr Snarryfan at aol.com
Fri Jan 21 10:34:57 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 122589


> 
> phoenixgod:
> The problem is that the change was too sudden and IMO illogical. 
> One of the basic rules of writing is that you are supposed to show 
> changes not explain them.  All of Ginny's changes were explained 
> second hand by Hermione or someone else.
>  
> And how did Hermione even get to be such good friends with her?  
> They are in separate years and have no classes together. They stay 
> in separate dorms. There has never, as far as I can recall, a 
> mention of Hermione ever even spending time with Ginny in previous 
> books, which the boys would have noticed because you know Ron 
> would have complained about it.
> 
> Seems like sloppy writing to me.

 
> Sherry replied:
> 
> Actually, I got the idea in GOF that Hermione and Ginny were 
friends.  It
> made perfect sense.  They have spent summers at the burrow 
together.  They
> shared a tent at the World Cup.  There were scenes around the Yule 
Ball that
> gave me the impression that the two girls had become friends.  I 
always have
> had friends older and younger than me, friends from different 
classes,
> schools, offices, whatever.  That part seems perfectly feasible and 
logical
> to me.
> 


There is also the fact than Ginny was the only one to know that Krum 
was Hermione's date for the Yule Ball.

Christelle







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