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

[gelite67]

No: HPFGUIDX 152066

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67@> 
> wrote:
> >
> <<massive snip>>
> > 
> > 8)  I also wonder if Ginny has had to endure other people making 
> > comments similar to the one Ron never got to finish?  Ginny 
pulled 
> > her wand at the precise moment before Ron called her whatever he 
> was 
> > going to call her. Not that it makes her a slut, but Ginny is 
> pretty 
> > and popular and at age 15, is with her second boyfriend.  
> 
> Allie:
> 
> I know others have said this, but I really think the "Ginny is a 
> slut" idea is VERY overblown.  I almost wonder if fan chatter was 
> the reason that JKR put that argument into the book.  Two 
boyfriends 
> in two years is NOTHING for a 15-year-old girl.  And what is Ginny 
> supposed to have done with these boys that makes her a slut?  I'm 
> SURE that JKR has not written Harry's love interest as someone 
who's 
> sleeping around at age 15!
> 
Angie here:

I don't think Ginny is a slut, but can you see how Ron would see it?  
He tends to be overprotective of the women he loves.  Look how many 
times he has stood up for Hermione.  He seems to almost aways react 
before Harry when Hermione is insulted.  And it bothered him because 
he though Rita Skeeter made Hermione look like a "scarlet woman" when 
she falsely wrote about how Hermione was stringing Harry and Victor 
along.  I think for Ron, the fact that Ginny let herself be seen in a 
corridor kissing a boy (who wasn't Harry) is enough to make him worry 
that people will call her a slut.  I don't think Ron thinks of her as 
a slut; he's just worried others will.
 
Angie wrote:
> > JKR could have given Ginny any temperament that she wanted to, 
but 
> > she made her spunky and yes, sometimes, angry.  I prefer to think 
> > there is a reason for this other than merely matching Harry with 
> > someone who has a strong personality:  Could it be that this 
scene 
> > foreshadows that Ginny may be able to perform an Unforgiveable 
> Curse 
> > and "mean it" (something Harry has yet to pull off)?  
> > 
> Allie:
> 
> Ooh, I like the idea of Ginny's angry/mean streak being useful in a 
> defense situation.  I'm not sure I want her to use an unforgivable 
> curse, but maybe something powerful enough to knock a few death 
> eaters out when it's desperately needed.
>
Angie again:

Well, like it or not, I think things are going to get pretty nasty in 
the final book.  I don't see how they could not.  Voldemort and the 
DEs are going to become even more desperate and ruthless as time goes 
by and the Order and whoever else is helping Harry are going to have 
to defend themselves, and that will probably require something more 
than a well-placed bat-bogey hex or two.  Why is it OK for Harry to 
kill LV but not for Ginny to perform an Unforgiveable if it is 
necessary to save someone's life?  Is it really considered Dark Magic 
under those circumstances?