Ginny Haters

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 152141

> Nick:
> > Ron had no business telling her off and (stopping just short of) 
> calling her a slut.  Zacharias Smith had
> no business questioning her inclusion on the team and calling it 
> favoritism.  
> 
> Ceridwen:
(snip)
> Zacharias Smith has every right to question her inclusion.  No one 
> has the duty to give it a second thought.  (snip) Zacharias is not 
in Gryffindor, so he is 
> just exercising his right to criticize.  It isn't his business, and 
> it isn't any skin off his nose if Harry holds trials by checking 
his 
> address book.  But he should have the freedom to express his doubts 
> and his snide remarks no matter how stupid and inconsequential they 
> may be.  Ginny hexing him, *merely for criticizing* her and her 
> inclusion on the team probably lent more credence to what he was 
> saying than if she had just called him an idiot and stalked 
haughtily 
> away.

Ginger:

Um, maybe I'm misunderstanding here, which could easily be the case 
as we usually tend to agree on things.

Are you saying the Zach had the "right" to his opinion (agreed there) 
and to express that opinion in a public forum where he was, 
theoretically, supposed to be commentating in an unbiased manner?  
Sure, he as as much right as anyone to wander the halls pontificating 
loudly on proper management techniques, but is he in the right to 
harp on that point in his position as commentator?  Had he brought up 
negative points about Ginny's play, he would have been just doing his 
job, but we've seen that Ginny is a good player who has earned her 
place on the team.  Note that he shut up on that after she scored 4 
of the team's 6 goals.

The part that I am questioning whether or not I understand correctly 
is where you said, "Zacharias Smith has every right to question her 
inclusion.  No one has the duty to give it a second thought."  Did 
you mean that Zach has a right to his opinion and no one has the 
right to express disagreement?  Perhaps I am jaded by RL here.  I 
hate it when someone says "IMO, blah, blah, blah" and if you try to 
say "I disagree" they get huffy that you are violating their right to 
their opinion.  You see it all the time in Political Correctness.  
Maybe I'm bringing my own baggage to your statement.

I would think that Zach has every right to say what he wants in 
everyday life, and that others have every right to disagree, but that 
in a public forum where an unbiased commentation is called for, his 
opinion needs to have a real base rather than just snide remarks.  He 
can certainly make negative comments, but he had best have facts to 
back them up.  That's just good reporting.

Personally, I got a charge out of Ginny there.  He tried to humiliate 
her in public because of his private dislike for her.  He got public 
humiliation right back in his face.  

Ginger, who likes Ginny because Ginny has the guts to do and say the 
things I *wish* I had the guts to do and say.  Probably why I like 
Snape.