SHIP: Pirate Ginny

[zoe0coll]

No: HPFGUIDX 133398

Delurking after a very long time...

Just wondered if any of you have actually been 16/17!  Or have 
you just forgotten!

I didn't particularly care who Harry went out with - I am not a 
shipper, but I think the Harry/Ginny relationship was just right.  
It didn't come out of the blue, Ginny has fancied him since PS, 
and while he hasn't shown that he fancies her, he has spent a lot 
of time with her in Order of the Phoenix, at Grimmauld Place, in 
DA meetings, they're on the Quidditch team together, and finally 
at the ministry, he's also got the bond between them that she was saved by him in COS and that she had her mind taken over by Voldemort, thus giving her a link with Harry that no one else has!

In JKR's defence, I myself am now married (for 14yrs) to a man I 
met at a youth group when I was 12.  I didn't fancy him at all 
when we first met, didn't think him particularly good looking, we weren't even in the same friendship group, but then as I got older- me 15, him 16, we began to be in the same group of friends, (we 
both had had other girfreinds/boyfriends), but had a lot of friends in common, and then when I was 16 and him 17 our youth group went 
on a weekend trip, I suddenly realised I fancied him, he asked me 
out the following week, (I later found out he had fancied me for about a year) and we got married 5 years later!

So I personally felt that the relationship was spot on!

On the argument between Ron and Ginny, I thought she was doing 
exactly what a teenager would.  I don't have any brothers myself 
but my two best friends both had older brothers who were exactly 
like Ron, telling them off and threatening to tell parents about 
boyfriends etc, and both my friends reacted just like Ginny - 
shouting and saying the most hurtful things they could come up 
with at the time!

I just feel JKR is writing with a knowledge or rememberance of what 
it's like to be that age and I felt transported back to my teenage 
years and felt like I was right there with them.

Back to lurkdom

Zoe