Ginny VS Harry

[ahsonazmat]

No: HPFGUIDX 135146


Schumar: 
> maybe I just
> trust JKR and her reasons for making Ginny the "greatest source of 
comfort"
> for hers and our hero, Harry.


              I don't have a problem with Ginny, as such. I just think 
the whole development of Ginny as Harry's "greatest source of comfort" 
could have been better shown. Sure, I'm aware that "love works in 
mysterious ways" et all, but Harry's feelings seem to come right out 
the blue. One minute Harry is saving her life, protecting her as he 
would his own sister (indeed, I would think it more sensible that 
Harry - and us as readers - thought of Ginny as a little sister), fast-
forward four years, and without any sort of  build up, bam! he smells 
her scent when he's near the love potion. There must be a reason why 
Ginny is special in a way no one else is, and the normal basis for the 
cultivation of this special feeling one feels around another is 
experience. But we never see or hear any of this. It seems as though 
the trio hang around 24/7, and once in a while Ginny joins in, when 
she's not too busy hexing boys in the hallway. Harry's sudden 
infatuation seems too much (to the reader disregarding JKR's "I'm 
telling you this, so accept it") akin to when Ron realized finally 
that Hermione was a girl and asked her to the Ball with him in 4th 
year. The fact that Harry's feelings (dare I call it "love"?) for 
Ginny are actually real and deep worsens the blow, and we feel as 
though we've been left out. 



Schumar:
> I know a lot of people don't like Ginny's reaction toward Fleur. I 
still propose
> that there might be SOMETHING about Veelas that cause women to react 
> with them in an equally strong yet opposite way... where men find 
themselves
> fawning over them and declaring love for no real reason,  and women 
find 
> themselves abhorring the beauties for no tangible reason. 


       This, I concede, seems a reasonable deduction. But I don't 
think this is it, because it automatically excuses Ginny and Hermione, 
while leaving Fleur for the vultures. I think JKR wanted it more in 
the grey area than that.




    - AA