SHIP Ginny's love life (was Harry/Ginny)

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 151908

Yahoomort has been hungry today.  Let's see if this posts.  Unlike 
people of higher intelligence :coughcarolcough:, I didn't save my 
original and am doing a rerun from memory.

Betsy Hp said (re: Ron catching Ginny and Dean snogging):
> 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.  Also, it's not like Ron has 
> been policing Ginny.  He didn't realize she was dating Michael 
> Corner.  And he didn't realize that she'd started dating Dean until 
> she told him.
> 
> If Ron had been dogging Dean and Ginny's every move, I could 
> understand the level of rage Ginny flies into at this moment.  But 
> from what I've read, this is the first Ron says anything.  And he's 
> not really out of bounds.  I can't see any big brother being happy 
> with his sister making out in a public corridor.  (Big sisters 
> generally don't approve of such things either. <g>)
(major snippage all around)

Ginger:

Let's take a look at what we know of the Sex Life of Ginny Weasley and 
How Her Brothers React.

PS- crush on Harry.  Little girl crush.  No reaction from brothers.

CoS- crush on Harry.  Allegedly sent him a singing Valentine, which 
F&G mocked.  

Personally I think there was something with Tom Riddle, the very least 
of which was that she was flattered by his attention and very naive as 
to his intentions.  It almost gets her killed.  The 4 brothers at 
Hogwarts are made very aware of how much they would miss her and wish 
they could protect her.  She gets a reputation with them as trusting 
and vulnerable beyond that which is normal in brother/sister 
realtionships.

PoA- gets about as much page time as Molly's dish water.  Crush on 
Harry assumed.

GoF- Goes to Yule Ball w/ Neville.  Brothers don't react, but then, 
wouldn't you trust your kid sister with Neville?  I know I would.  
Still actually crushing on Harry.  Shows character by not breaking her 
date with Neville.  Meets Michael Corner, although we don't know about 
it at that time.

OoP- Has been dating Michael in secert.  Now we get to the juicy 
stuff.  After the Hog's Head (see the final pages of ch 16) meeting, 
Ron finds out that Ginny has been dating Michael.  First he gags on 
his butterbeer and spills it down his front, then he asks which one 
Michael was, after which he announces that he didn't like him.  Upon 
finding that Ginny no longer fancies Harry, he is "quivering with 
indignation".  He asks why she didn't tell him, and Hermione replies 
that Ginny knew that he'd take it badly.  Hermione asks him not to 
harp on it.  He says he will do no such thing, but continues "to 
chunter under his breath all the way down the street". 

When Ron finds out that she ditched Michael (ch 38), he is delighted.  
He then hints that she find someone better, hinting at Harry.  When 
she says she has chosen Dean, Ron upends the chess board.

On to HBP- In ch 6, they are in F&G's shop.  Ginny is looking at love 
potions, but F&G won't sell one to her.  They've heard she "has about 
five boys on the go".  She tells them that whatever they have heard 
from Ron is a big fat lie.  

I find this suspicious.  How does she know they have heard it from 
Ron?  OK, he's at Hogwarts, so he's the obvious one.  How does she 
know that "whatever" they have heard is a big fat lie?  Just from that 
one sentance?  How does she know that it is Ron doing the exaggerating 
rather than F&G?  This says "off-page conversations" to me.  

She tries to change the subject, but they ask point blank if she is 
going with Dean.  She tells them that she is, but he is one boy, not 
five.  She again tries to change the subject, but they ask what about 
Michael.  She tells them she dumped him, and they ask if she's not 
moving through boyfriends too fast.  Hmm, two boyfriends from the 
middle of her 3rd year (Yule Ball) to the beginning of her 5th year?  
And they think it's "moving through boyfriends... too fast"?  What has 
Ron been telling them?

Ginny turns on Fred with a Molly-like glare and tells him it's none of 
his business.  She also tells Ron not to tell tales.

Why the glare?  After only a couple of questions and a comment?  I 
think she is tired of hearing about it.  This points a finger on Ron 
to me.  Only a few weeks have elapsed from the train in OoP, when he 
finds out that she is seeing Dean, to her being sick of conversation 
about him.  My guess is that Ron's been harping.

On the train in the next chapter, Pansy mentions to Blaise that lots 
of boys like Ginny, and that even he, Mr. Hard to Please, thinks she's 
good looking.  No reaction from brothers as they aren't there.

Now we hit ch. 14.  The big blow-up.  I think we've seen that Ron has 
a history with Ginny where her love life is concerned.  He didn't pay 
much attention before Michael- he didn't even know they had broken up, 
but now that she's with Dean, he's not only talking to her, but to F&G 
as well.  We've not seen any animosity between Ron and Dean in the 
past that would account for his hostility, nor do we have any record 
of him confronting Dean or demanding to know his intentions.

After Ginny sends Dean back to the common room, she turns on Ron and 
says "let's get this straight once and for all.  It is none of your 
business who I go out with or what I do with them".

Ooh, "once and for all"?  That's not something you say the first time 
someone comments on something.  That's pretty much up there with "for 
the last time" or "I've told you a million times".  It's none of his 
business what she does with them?  What has he been saying she has 
done?  He says in the corridor that he doesn't want people "thinking" 
she's a... but in that conversation, he doesn't question what she is 
actually doing.  Did we miss a conversation outside of Harry's PoV 
where he did ask what she had been doing with all those guys?  It 
could be.  

Not much is said after her breakup with Dean, only that Ron and Harry 
agree that she is too popular for her own good (ch24).

When she and Harry get together, Ron doesn't mind a bit, much to 
Harry's surprise.

Whew.  This is longer than my original.  Back to your question:  Where 
did Ginny's anger come from?  I speculate that this has been building 
up, mostly off-page, but with enough hints on-page, that the incident 
in ch. 14 was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Ginger, glad she doesn't have older brothers.