SHIP: Pirate Ginny

[mg_mchenry]

No: HPFGUIDX 133838


> zoe0coll wrote:
> > Just wondered if any of you have actually been 16/17!  Or have 
> > you just forgotten!
> > 
> > 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.

> mgm:
> I was having a similar reaction to many of the comments that I saw. 
> I'm 28 now, but only stopped being a teenager a year or two ago. ;)

I meant to add that, like zoe, HBP powerfully transported me back to
my teenage years and the discovery of romanctic love and physical
intimacy.  I wasn't always at my most honorable and true-to-character
in those years.  Similarly, I think it's youth that has our favorite
characters acting in ways we don't want to see them.  

If you can rationalize OotP's whiny Anikin Harry as an adolescent
phase he was going through, it seems that it's even easier to believe
the events of HBP.

Though certain pairings and behavior might have annoyed me, the
shipping aspects o the book thoroughly reminded me of life as a teenager.

-mgm