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

[gelite67]

No: HPFGUIDX 152103

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
>
> > >>gelite67: [I think]
> > > 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. 
> > <snip>
> 
> Betsy Hp wrote:
> I really don't like the idea of Ginny's anger (which leads to her 
> being fairly mean) as a positive.  It doesn't make her strong.  In 
> fact, her rage seems to control her rather than the other way 
> around.  She was near tears in her argument with Ron (which signals 
> a lack of control, IMO).  And her meanness to Ron led to a rather 
> big crises for her quidditch team and a major rift between Ron and 
> Hermione.  Neither of which (I assume) were Ginny's goals.
> 
><snip> 
> I just think that, like Harry's anger in OotP, Ginny's anger is a 
> negative rather than a positive, and something she needs to improve 
> upon.  (Though, as Pippin pointed out IIRC, there is a certain 
> synchronicity in the way neither Harry nor Ginny are intimidated by 
> the other's anger.)
\
>
Angie here:
Well, I think righteous anger has its place and it was that kind of 
situation I was alluding to that might occur in Book 7, not the petty 
stuff that we see with Ginny in HBP.  Which was in fact my point -- 
how impressive will Ginny be when she truly "needs" to cast a spell 
for a good reason, like to save someone else's life?  I can't imagine 
JKR simply dropped in all these reference to how powerful Ginny is 
and how angry she can get for no good reason. 

I also don't agree that tears necessarily signal a lack of control -- 
Ginny's tears may have been the very thing that actually prevented 
her from acting because they served as a release.  Ron, who wasn't 
near tears, was the one who actually fired off his wand, not Ginny.