[HPforGrownups] Re: I still hate Ginny Weasley!!!

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 131704

My response to this is: SHOW ME.  This isn't really a challenge to you
though -- it's a 
challenge to JKR.  To me, it seemed like Ginny's "steady" growth rather
suddenly exploded 
onto the scene in OotP.

*shrugs* But then, to be fair, I never did like her.

Laura

Sherry now:

Funny, I was not at all surprised by Ginny in OOTP.  Am I the only one who
did see it coming?  In each book, except POA I think, she's become a little
more of a character, a little more interesting and having a little more
personality.  I just started reading GOF again, and actually paid attention
to the scene when Harry arrives at the burrow, and he, Ron, Hermione *and*
Ginny all go upstairs to avoid the wrath of Molly and the twins.  Before the
events in COS, Ginny would have been too shy to go socialize around Harry.
It seemed like a natural maturing on her part, her trauma in the chamber
wiping away the school girl in some ways forever.  I can't quote canon here,
but Ginny seems to me to be coming out of her shell throughout GOF, and her
blossoming in OOTP wasn't at all a surprise to me.

Well, I usually find I'm in sync with PhoenixGod, about Sirius and Snape, so
I guess it was time to differ!

sherry