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

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No: HPFGUIDX 122998




> 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.  

Here I have to disagree, I'm actually a bit
disgruntled about the sudden reappearance of Ginny
Weasley in Book Five. She doesn't appear of any
interest besides a few asides in POA and GOF and
suddenly she's almost a super-Ginny in OOTP.  She can
fly, she can cast excellent hexes at naughty Malfoys
and has finally become a bit more of a firecracker. 
Not that I wouldn't expect a Weasley sister to have
all these traits but to just suddenly develop them.  I
find it all too convenient.  I think if Ginny was a
parselmouth we would have had some sort of indication
before (or perhaps I just demand it myself.)

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.  


    I do have a personal bias about Harry's LI but
again I find the reemergence of Ginny a bit too
convenient.  I do find the OBHWF idea just a bit too
tidy (again purely my opinion on this matter...and a
matter of lengthy discussion between my husband and
myself.)  I do however think that JK has created a
very unique system of support friends for Harry with
the inclusion of Ginny.  You have of course Ron who
keeps Harry grounded into being a young man having fun
and just enjoying what he can of life.  (of course Ron
is more than that as Harry's best friend but I see
this as one of his greatest assets.)  Hermione
provides intellectual support to Harry (and a bit of
emotional too.)  Her greatest assets to him though
remain her cleverness, her research capabilities and a
willingness to believe Harry.  We have Neville who has
also suffered the great loss of his parents in a way
quite similar to Harry's (an attack of evil wizards
and DE's).  We have Luna another person who has had
some measure of personal tragedy and a great deal of
consideration and emotional support for others (in her
own strange way she is very compassionate.)  I suppose
I see her compassion as her general acceptance of what
other's find unbelievable and strange (including
Harry, Ron etc).   Finally we come to Ginny who can
relate to Harry on the level of possession and of
course any close contact with Dark Magic.  I think
this is a great setup for book six.  It allows that
Harry will have the support system among friends at
least to help him balance out.  He is so erratic in
OOTP that he will need all of his friends to help him
level out.  
> 

> -- not at all because Ginny was clever enough to do
> that without being
> caught.

I have to agree its not surprising to think of a
Weasley being clever enough to do any of these things.
 We've certainly watched her older brothers display
such  talents.  My only qualm is that the hints of her
following in their footsteps before this book are few
and far between.  Its just too convenient for my
taste.

> Ginny, a traitor?   Yuck!

Yes I doubt this will happen.  She has been duped
before I doubt you can pull the wool over her eyes a
second time now.  Again her past experience makes her
a powerful ally to Harry now.  I think Ginny will be a
traitor only in darkfic fandom.  Now Percy on the
other hand...

Cheers!

Ellyddan

--who realizes she hardly ever posts and then rambles
when she does.  I hope this made sense in some whit. 



		
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