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

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 150809

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amiabledorsai" 
<amiabledorsai at ...> wrote:
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Betsy wrote:
> > I mean, I suppose Ginny might call Hermione her best friend, but 
> > Hermione wouldn't return the favor...
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> <Snip>
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> > So the trend of only silly or shallow girls having female best
> > friends remains unbroken. :)
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> Amiable Dorsai:
> So... Hermione chose, as the only person she trusted with the 
> identity of her Yule Ball date, a casual friend, not someone she, 
> you know, felt any special connection to?
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> And the casual friend just sat on the juiciest bit of gossip in 
all 
> of Gryffindor Tower?
> 
> Without signing anything?
> 
> Amiable Dorsai
>

Jen D. here,
This round and round about "friendship" got me to thinking. It seems 
that Hermy and Ginny have a great friendship but they understand the 
boundaries. And has anyone mentioned that Hermione gave Ginny a 
winning strategy (took years to execute but worth waiting for...) in 
order to get Harry's notice? Each girl has her own circle and 
sometimes, many times, they intersect as well and it seems to have 
grown over the years. That's why it was such a cruel and surprising 
thing when Ginny snarled at Hermione not to pretend she understood 
anything about quidditch. Their bond was just an accepted fact, 
nothing to wonder about. I appreciate JKR's demonstration of many 
kinds of friendship, many levels and that she shows friendship 
developing naturally. If we say the girls are or aren't friends for 
one set of facts, occuring at one time or the other, we lose sight 
of the whole organic process.
Jen D. (wishing she could have been this mature about friendship in 
her teen years!)