[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: Pirate Ginny

[John Fisher]

No: HPFGUIDX 133728

sienna291973 <jujupoet29 at ...> wrote:
[Re: Ginny]
> in-your-face parallels drawn between Lily and Ginny. But their ending
> was off-kilter. Why does he not tell her about the prophecy? Why does
> he not protest when Ron and Hermione say they are coming with him if
> he's intent on going on alone? Aren't Ron and Hermione at *more* risk
> than Ginny? Would he care less if they died? Why does Ginny only
> manage a `twisted' smile and not shed a tear over their breakup?


To me this is why Ginny is "right" for Harry, in ways that, say,
Hermione never would be: she's got a great deal of nerve, and she
respects and *trusts* Harry, even to the point of accepting that he's
the Chosen One, that she isn't, and that he desperately wants someone
to come back to.

Of course Ron and Hermione are at more risk, and he might even be more
devastated by their deaths than by Ginny's at this stage.  But Ron and
Hermione are his "fellow warriors," as they always have been.  Ginny's
his girlfriend.  You'd find the same feelings at work in G.I. Average
Joe: he cares intensely for his fellow soldiers, but he doesn't try to
keep them out of the fight.  [gender bias noted]

Mind you, I don't trust Ginny to sneak back into the fight.  She'd be
in good literary company.

-John, picturing Voldemort's face covered by monstrous bats