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

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 134407


> 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.

still, seems logical to me that would be where a lot of the votes 
come from. Especially coming from the casual readers who see her red 
hair and go of course it'll be Harry and Ginny, 'cause its 'cute'. 
I'm sure there are other reasons, but if Ginny weren't a redhead I 
would bet money that her fan base would be a lot smaller.
 
> 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.

true. also don't forget their total lack of chemistry together :)
 
> 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.

Eh, I'm fightin' an uphill battle anyway.  JKR apparently thinks that 
Ginny is the bestested girl in the world for Harry so I'm giving up 
on anyone more interesting. I'll console myself by working on my HP 
fic where Harry is dating Fleur and Ginny is a stalker--it great for 
all those negative feelings I have ;)

Maybe I just hate redheads because I never liked Mary Jane Watson 
much either. Always been more of a Gwen Stacy fan.

phoenixgod2000, very near his buring day and looking like a sad 
phoenix indeed.