I still hate Ginny Weasley!!!

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Phoenixgod says:
> "She never shuts up," does not a characterization make regardless of 
> what Ginny defenders think.  Nothing about the way she acted in OOTP 
> made sense at all when you think about anything shes done in the 
> past books.
> 
> phoenixgod2000, who just wanted to post something about someone 
> other than Snape

Princess Sara replies:

  You and I just can't seem to agree on anything, can we? ;o) I personally am a fan of Ginny 
and had been expecting more of her in OotP. Perhaps I just like the James/Lily-Harry/
Ginny parallels, but I digress.

  I present to you a theory on why, all of a sudden, Ginny has burst onto the scene. We all 
agree that the HP books are written from Harry's POV, a view which many have admitted is 
skewed through his perceptions. Up until OotP, Harry has had little call to notice Ginny as 
anything more than his best friend's little sister. She's been a side note.

  However, in OotP, Harry realizes that Ginny is very much over her crush on him and I 
think that makes Harry sit up and take notice. I think this revelation surprises Harry out of 
his view of Ginny as "annoying little sister" to real person. Because this shift happens for 
Harry, it happens for us through the Harry POV narration. I think that this new awareness 
will cause the build up of romantic feelings throughout HBP, although I don't think they'll 
get together until Book 7, if at all.

   On a side note, I think that Harry's preoccupation (without realizing it's a preoccupation) 
with Ginny's love life is what has led to the Slut!Ginny characterization. Harry realizes 
Ginny's got a boyfriend and dwells on it so her actions are blown out of proportion.

Princess Sara with her two knuts