I Hate Ginny Weasley!!!! Mass Response

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 122592


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delemtri" <olivertraldi at g...> 
wrote:
 
> 
> But I'm pandering to your view of the situation. I'd like to point
> out that the two huge objections to Ginny's character are
> contradictory. First of all, people say that they don't buy Ginny
> becoming a major character from a minor one; then they say they 
don't
> buy Ginny's change in character. 

Hickengruendler:

I'm not sure, but I think that these are two different groups. I, at 
least, never said that I didn't buy Ginny suddenly becoming a major 
character. I expected this from the very first book on. After all, 
she, like Ron, Hermione, Draco, Neville, Percy and the twins, got a 
special introduction, that puts her ahead of the other students. And 
she already was a major character in CoS, therefore I wasn't 
surprised that she got more screentime again.  

> The fact is that *we didn't know
> much about Ginny until OOTP.* The few flashes we have involve 
Ginny's
> crush, a burning desire to attend Hogwarts, a strong bond with her
> entire family, and a *strong* personality (as early as PS/SS; then 
in
> COS we have Ron saying Ginny talks all the time, and Ginny standing
> up to Lucius Malfoy; and in GOF we have her calling Ron an idiot or
> some such and being, in all honesty, much less awkward around 
Harry).

Hickengruendler:

Like I already said, "she never shuts up" is IMO not a sign of a 
strong personality. It's just some character trait that's neither 
positive nor negative and that people with strong and weak 
personalities can have, and I don't think that we could have assumed 
from this statement, that she is all cool and spunky. I knew that Jo 
gave it as a supposed evidence in the chat last year, but I frankly 
am not convinced by this "evidence". And, IMO, Ginny wasn't all that 
talkative in OotP. Yes, she wasn't completely silent, but she really 
only spoke when needed, quite in contrast to Hermione or Luna, I 
might add. A strong family bond does Ginny have, I don't deny this 
either, but I'm not sure what this has to do with her character 
development. Shy people can have a strong family bond, too.

And I never said that Ginny has or had a weak personality. I just 
said that I didn't buy the spunky and sporty personality she showed 
in book 5. Shy people can have a strong personality as well, as 
Neville shows and as I thought Ginny showed in the first four books.
 
> What happened in OOTP is that we learned a lot about her character.

Hickengruendler:

We also learned in OotP more about Neville's, McGonagall's, 
Trelawney's, Sirius', James', Dumbledore's, Trelawney's, Petunia's or 
Snape's character, neither of which really surprised me. The only 
development that I found a bit unsatisfying was Ginny's.