[HPforGrownups] Re: Why I like Ginny! Quotes and more...(long)

[Vivamus]

No: HPFGUIDX 122974

> Phoenixgod2000:
>
> I do definitely think Ginny has a role in the future of the 
> series. I just think it could be handled better (and I pray 
> her role isn't HP's LI). There has to be a consequence to Tom 
> Riddle pouring his soul into her. Sometimes I wonder if that 
> was the reason for the jump started character in OOTP.  Maybe 
> V is doing something with her. 
> Maybe she has her own connection with the dark lord.
> 
> I think the most interesting thing that JK could do with 
> Ginny would be to make her into a traitor. Someone corrupted 
> by the dark lord. 
> Their own version of Peter. 
> 
> I had forgotten that Ginny was supposedly stealing their 
> brooms since she was six. For some reason I thought she was 
> older than that when she started.  Honestly that makes it 
> even more unbelievable to me. 
> Kids can be precocious but for her to do that and never get caught? 
> It's stupidity of the highest order.
> 
> Phoenixgod2000

Vivamus:

I think you are right, Phoenixgod2000, that there must be consequences to
TR's pouring of his soul into Ginny.  I look for her to be revealed as a
Parselmouth or something similar at some point in the future.  I think you
are revealing a personal bias, though, when you say that you "pray her role
isn't HP's LI".  

JKR can do whatever she wants, but Ginny has certainly been set up from book
1 as a potential love interest for Harry.  It might be yet another red
herring on JKR's part, but it would be a *lot* more subtle than her others,
and it doesn't seem likely at all to me.  

As to the sneaking out the brooms and flying them, I grew up in a large
family, and I can tell you from personal experience, that kids get away with
far more things like that in big families than in small ones, and the
farther down the chain of siblings a child is, the better s/he is likely to
be at avoiding being caught.  If Ginny were watching Fred and George
maneuver their way around their parents, Percy, and Ron, she would be quite
accomplished at both manipulating her older brothers and avoiding them
completely well before the age of six.  I found the comment a bit
surprising, but only because she never displayed her flying talent until now
-- not at all because Ginny was clever enough to do that without being
caught.

Ginny, a traitor?   Yuck!

Vivamus, who shudders to remember some of the things he did before the age
of six (and didn't get caught)