Ginny Haters

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 152146

> Nick  :

> I hate to break it to everyone, but we're supposed to LIKE Ginny.
> We're supposed to laugh at her jokes.  We're supposed to approve
of
> her behavior.  I, for one, think she's hilarious, ballsy,
vivacious,
> and probably extremely hot.  Harry deserves no less.
>
> Do y'all have bad experiences with these types of people?

Magpie:
I think the fact that we're supposed to like Ginny is irrelevent.
In answer to the last question, I would have to say that apparently
I find any experience with these types of people (or at least this
version) to be bad experiences.  When I think of anyone in real life
post-GoF Ginny reminds me of they do indeed bring up all negative 
memories.

But that's why it's pointless to argue subjective experiences.  I
can't find Ginny amusing or likable because I'm supposed to, I can
only have my own honest reaction, and it's not a completely unique 
reaction.  I don't think characters deserve their scenes with Ginny--
even if I think the other person has done something wrong, iirc.  In 
a case like that, where you respond to a character differently than 
the author does, feeling the authorial opinion nudging at you just 
makes you like or dislike a character more, not less.

This is probably the way anybody feels in these situations--it just
makes you think the other person is the one with the weird taste or
the one who isn't seeing the character the way s/he "really is."  If
I were writing the book I'd get more satisfaction out of putting
this character on the receiving end of her behavior intead of having
her dish it out.  To each his own.

This is one of those ways fiction mirrors real life after all. It's
not like in real life people can can go up to people who seriously
dislike them and say, "But you're supposed to like me!  Everyone
deserves the treatment I give them!  I'm sassy and excellent and 
cool, and I'm really funny!" It's been mentioned that Ginny does and 
says things others are afraid to do in life and there's good reason 
for that.  In real life you don't have an author pulling the strings 
to make all your rude remarks and violent actions turn out well.  

-m