Ginny's best friend (Was: Pansy Parkinson (Was: House characteristics))

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> Amiable Dorsai:
> There is this one girl that Ginny confides in an awful lot--tells her
> all kinds of things about borrowed brooms and unrequited loves...
> I've got a feeling that Harry knows Ginny's best female friend
> tolerably well.

Betsy Hp:
Well, yes. <g>  I agree that Hermione and Ginny are friends.  Probably 
the closest female friend either of them have.  However, they're not 
really "best" friends.  They share a room when Hermione comes to stay 
for the summer, and Hermione must notice Ginny sneaking out at night 
to do her clandestine broom riding.  (The logistics of that still bug 
me, but ah well.)  And I'm sure there's quite a bit of after lights 
out chatter (they do get along for the most part, after all). But they 
don't hang together that much at school.

Of course, Hermione *can't* have a best friend outside of Ron and 
Harry, because that would have either added a fourth to their trio or 
pulled her away from her boys.  Ginny could have had a best friend of 
some sort because she's not a part of Harry's core group.  But JKR 
hasn't given her one (either male or female, for that matter).

I mean, I suppose Ginny might call Hermione her best friend, but 
Hermione wouldn't return the favor, which leads to a rather unbalanced 
friendship, to my mind.  Not something Spunky!Ginny would put up with, 
I would think.

So the trend of only silly or shallow girls having female best friends 
remains unbroken. :)

Betsy Hp