Ginny VS Harry

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 135188

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> vmonte:
> 
> I always knew that Ginny and Harry would become a couple. CoS was a 
> big clue for me. Ginny stands up for Harry at the bookstore, even 
> though she was shy around Harry at the Burrow. The fact that JKR 
chose 
> Ginny as the recipient of the diary was important. Think about it? 
JKR 
> could have easily slipped the book to Ron, but she didn't. She gave 
it 
> to this new character, a girl. And the fact that JKR made one of 
the 
> Weasley's a girl is also important. Besides the fact that saving 
> the "sleeping" princess from the clutches of a basilisk, a 
dragonlike, 
> monster is more interesting to me than a guy saving another guy. 
This 
> scene felt like foreshadowing to. 
> 
> I also liked that Ginny (during GoF or was it OOTP?) tried very 
hard 
> to make Harry happy by trying to get him to hook up with Cho, even 
> though this was probably killing her inside. She was more 
interested 
> in Harry's happiness, instead of her own. I never once believed 
that 
> Ginny was over Harry. What I did see, though, was a girl that was 
not 
> stupid or a pushover. I liked the fact that she moved on to other 
boys 
> when she realized that Harry was not interested. 
> 
> The scene where Ginny and Harry share the chocolate egg also had 
> symbolic meaning. Harry and Ginny do after all "share" something in 
> common. Harry is unlike any of the other students at the school, 
and 
> he often feels lonely because of it. This scene is very interesting 
in 
> how Harry reacts to Ginny. 
> 
> Cho has nothing over Ginny, either. I laughed in one scene when 
Harry 
> said to Cho: "You're not going to start crying again are you?" 
which 
> just happened to be what I was thinking as well. I also liked that 
JKR 
> should Ginny playing Quidditch against Cho, and that she clobbered 
Cho 
> (Cho even starts to cry---AGAIN!). Harry needs someone that is 
strong 
> enough to handle the kind of life Harry leads. 
> 
> I like Ginny, but that's JMO.
> 
> Vivian
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> http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essays/essay-harry-ginny.html

Hickengruendler:

It's not that I really disagree with your post. I can see the 
symbolism as well, even though I don't particularly like all of it. 
However, symbolism is one thing and interaction another. You can't 
base a ship solely on symbolism. Seeing that I always thought that 
H/G would happen, I might agree with you, that there was some 
romantic foreshadowing involved regarding Harry and Ginny in the 
previous books.

However, foreshadowing is one thing and the execution another. What 
is the use of all this foreshadowing and symbolism, if we never see 
Harry and Ginny interact? Delwynmarch said it very well, not only 
came Harry's feelings for Ginny out of the blue, but the relationship 
between them was pretty much ignored once they became a couple. JKR 
wrote that Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione all hung around with each 
other, and that was it. There was no interaction between Harry and 
Ginny after they kissed (and not to mention that there hardly was any 
before they became a couple as well). Not even them simply having fun 
with each other. If JKR intended to portray H/G in HBP as a deep and 
meaningful relationship, than she failed to convince me of this. In 
fact, until the very end I saw it as a typical teenage relationship 
not unlike Ron/Lavender (though with the possibility of it developing 
into more) and then came the after funeral scene and it suddenly 
dawned on me, that it was meant to be true and deep love, which it 
was simply not what I saw when reading the book.

Hickengruendler, who really liked book 6, just not this particular 
subplot