Ginny VS Harry / Re: HBP Review in Globe and Mail

[Cindy]

No: HPFGUIDX 135770

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "coolbeans3131" <joj at r...> 
wrote:
>  <drjuliehoward at y...> wrote: 
> > I do not think she has failed.  I just don't think the romantic 
> > pairings are as important to JKR as the main storyline.  She 
simply 
> > can't include everything that all of her fans want to read.  IMO 
she 
> > has made it quite clear these are not romance novels, so these 
> > details will not be there.  They have not been there in the 
previous 
> > six books and I doubt very seriously they will not be in book 
7.  I 
> > can understand why you are disappointed if this is what you are 
> > looking for.  Unfortunately, I predict your disappointment will 
> > continue. She has set up much bigger fish to fry in book seven 
that 
> > who gets together and how.  If she departs from her genre of 
books 
> > one through six and writes a romance novel for book seven, I 
will 
> > join the ranks of the disappointed.
> 
> 
> Joj writes:
> I don't think any of us who were disappointed in H/G romance want 
Jo 
> to write it as a romance novel.  My problem comes in Jo telling us 
at 
> the end (with the Spiderman break-up) that Harry and Ginny have 
this 
> deep relationship or love and that's the first we realize it.  
Would 
> it really be asking for too much to have ONE scene where we see 
Harry 
> and Ginny connect on an emotional level?  
> 
> Physical attraction is an important aspect in relationships, but 
if 
> we're to believe in this soul-mate senario, give us one heart to 
heart!

Why? To me, their relationship evolved appropriately for most 15/16 
year olds. Spending time together, exploring physical and emotional 
aspects of being together--and kids that age can get pretty 
desperate for each other in their own heads in an extremely short 
ammount of time. That being said, I don't think JKR wrote anything 
near a break-up of soul mates. Harry and Ginny didn't get dramatic, 
Ginny didn't even cry. Neither of them talked about a "what if" 
scenario for the future, but both of them have experienced Voldmort 
first hand, and both know they could be used against each other. A 
very grown up decision by two kids who had been friends first and 
going through the beginnings of a romantic relationship that just 
ran out of time.