Ginny VS Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 135784

Julie wrote:
> "However, I like things being implied and left to my 
interpretation."
 
> Del replied:
> I *love* things being implied. But where Ginny and Harry are
> concerned, *nothing* is implied. I have NO canon basis to start
> imagining a relationship between Harry and Ginny. We have ONE scene
> between just the two of them in the entire canon, and that was long
> before they were dating.
> 
> But the real problem, for me, is that JKR meant MUCH more than
> implication. She meant us to KNOW that Harry and Ginny love each 
other very much. The scene where Harry splits up with Ginny makes 
sense only if the readers care about the relationship, if they know 
about it, if they know how intense it is, how much of a sacrifice it 
is for Harry to propose to end the relationship, and how selfless it 
is for Ginny to let Harry go. Except that by the time I got there, I 
knew NOTHING of their relationship, I sure had NOT realised that it 
was supposed to be The Real Deal. So the scene fell horribly flat, 
and Harry *telling* of his deep love for Ginny came out as typically 
very bad writing. Not at all something I would expect from JKR.
> 
> And by the way, if romance doesn't matter, then why put that mushy
> scene in at all? Why not just TELL us that Harry split up with 
Ginny, instead of spending all that time showing it?


**Marcela now:  I have to agree with Del here.  We had read five 
books prior to HBP in which everytime Harry did something, we knew 
the reasons for his actions.  Even when he acted on impulse, like in 
CoS when he decided to plunge the Basilisk's fang in the Diary, we -
the readers- knew that Harry had listened to an inner voice telling 
him to do it.  When he wanted to ask Cho out for the Ball in GoF, we 
had a full chapter dedicated to this question, we knew all about his 
fear of rejection, his tongue freezing in front of her, etc.  When 
he blew up Aunt Marge in PoA we knew all about his anger and hunger 
for revenge.  When he saw Snape's memories in the Pensieve we knew 
all about his inner turmoil about his parents and Sirius's behaviour.
But when we are at Dumbledore's funeral, in only two lines we are 
supposed to learn that Harry had been pondering about breaking up 
with Ginny for a while already, and that it had been something he'd 
been dreading to do but that had to be done.  I'm sorry, but that 
came out of the blue, in a horrible and unpredictable manner for 
Jo's record.  If you then add Ginny's "I never gave up on you" when 
she'd been dating two boys for roughly the past two years. The 
cherry on the top was Harry's "...years maybe..." o.O!  He'd been 
drooling after Cho during all those years, for pete's sake!  
In all honesty and with no interview statements mixing in here, I 
thought that Jo was going for her typical approach: not letting her 
readers get too involved with a character she's going to kill soon, 
just like she did with Cedric, Sirius and Dumbledore.
I'm hoping that if H/G is going to survive HP7, she'd do more 
justice to it.

Marcela