Snape's AK Failed!!! with other comments (Ginny)

[mad_maxime]

No: HPFGUIDX 134405

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "phoenixgod2000" <jmrazo at h...>
wrote:

> > Max wrote:

> > In poll after poll Ginny won,hands down. Lucky guess?. . . I think
> > not. Sounds like there was enough foreshadowing to me. :)

> Phoenixgod responded: 

> Ginny wins those polls because people like the symmetry of H/G not 
> the character of Ginny or 'foreshadowing'. People like the idea of 
> Harry rescuing his LI from the big bad monster. They like that Harry 
> (who looks just like his dad) has a gf that is just like his mom 
> (red head and all). It can't be about the actual character of Ginny 
> because the people who shipped Ginny with Harry when she was a shy, 
> tongue tied girl are still shipping her with Harry now that she is a 
> spunky power ranger.

Max responds:

Touché PG! Of course, this is total supposition on your part. You have
no more means of proving that people vote Ginny because of symmetry
than I do with people voting Ginny for foreshadowing. Imo however, I
find it highly unlikely that upwards of 60% of readers voting in
shipping polls vote Ginny simply because they *like the idea*. If H/G
has no basis in canon as you suggest, she would not be getting all
these votes.

Now I could list all the "clues" I see as foreshadowing a H/G
relationship from Books 1-5 and you can shoot them down one by one,
but that's already been done to death by the shippers. What it clearly
comes down to is a difference of opinion as to what qualifies as a
proper amount of foreshadowing.

While I agree that the H/G relationship did suffer somewhat from not
enough exposition and build up, the problem was not large enough, in
my eyes, to render the relationship unbelievable or poor written.