[HPforGrownups] SHIP Harry/Ginny (was:CHPDISC: HBP14, Felix Felicis)

[Peg DiGrazia]

No: HPFGUIDX 151898

BetsyHP wrote (snipped):
  >I have sisters.  I'm incredibly familiar with the virgin vs. slut fight. (Um, to not shock >anyone unfamiliar with such battles: it can be over how many boys you've held hands >with if you're young enough.)  I wasn't aware boys took part in such battles, and I >ever knew it took place between brothers and sisters.  But there we are.

  Peg now:
  Brothers do tend to be overprotective of their little sisters.  Ron never gave much thought to Ginny's love life when it was in the abstract, but seeing it face-to-face was a shock to him, I think.  (I'm the baby of the family with brothers and sisters, and my brothers still act shocked when they see me drink an alcoholic beverage.  I'm 37.)  And I don't have the book in front of me, but isn't it Ginny who really escalates the "virgin vs. slut" aspect of the fight?  Ron doesn't want Ginny to be a "slut," which is a typical brotherly feeling, but Ginny mocks Ron for being a "virgin," which seems more like an adolescent girl thing. 

Betsy (more snips):
  >But I don't get the level of Ginny's anger.  She was making out with a guy in a >hallway.  A corridor that is described as a "usual shortcut up to Gryffindor Tower".  >So it's not like she isn't aware that she's exposing herself to comment. 
   
  Peg again:
  Just guessing, of course, but maybe the level of Ginny's anger has to do with the fact that Harry is with Ron?  Ginny has had romantic feelings for Harry since she was 10 years old, and really she's only dated other boys to try to get over him.  She probably does genuinely like Dean, but on some level she may feel like she's using him, and being confronted with the true object of her desire must be humiliating.  Also, she might feel that her chances with Harry will be even smaller if he thinks she's serious about Dean (or worse, if HE thinks she's a "slut.")
   
  I'm not a big fan of "spunky" Ginny and I mostly agree with your (ruthlessly snipped) comments about her rage, but I don't necessarily take JKR's interview as proof that there's not something deeper going on with Ginny.  Teenaged girls take EVERYTHING personally and to heart, so I don't see her anger as out-of-character for any adolescent girl.  They haven't figured out how to control themselves yet, and the whole hormone thing needs to be taken into account.  Hopefully Ginny will grow up and calm down quite a bit in book 7.

		
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