JKR and the boys (and girls)

[Cheryl]

No: HPFGUIDX 161596

Phoenixgod2000:
A bad job of writing Ginny? I'm shocked. Shocked I say :)

Nicky Joe:
LOL!  I can't agree more.  I've tried and tried to like her, but darn 
it, there's just not enough to go on!  She in the whole series for, 
like, five minutes.  I didn't want to be TOLD who she was, I wanted 
to be SHOWN.

Phoenixgod2000:

I think she probably does believe that
Hermione and Ginny are best girlfriends and they are--in her head--
but I don't think she does a good job of conveying that in the text.

Nicky Joe:
It wouldn't have been that difficult, either.  A simple mention by 
Hermione about doing something with Ginny once in awhile would have 
helped.  Heck, I've seen fanfic do a better job at making Ginny a 
character!

Phoenixgod2000:

regardless of how insular Harry is, that
just isn't plausible. When I was in school, I was hardly a big man
on campus in a much bigger school than Hogwarts and I could have
named every student in my class and said something about them.

Nicky Joe:
That ALWAYS bugged me about the series.  Harry lived a decade in 
Muggleland and had ZERO friends?  That's not only implausible, it's 
downright ludicrous.  It would have been pretty simple to get rid of 
any Muggle friends of Harry's by having them move away or something, 
but to not give him any at all?  That's just wrong.  I know why she 
did it, but I don't have to like it.

Phoenixgod2000:
She does seem to have the dating scene sown up but I actually do find
that out of character.

Nicky Joe:
I'm frankly surprised she made a nod to the dating thing at all, as 
she's shown a marked reluctance to writing any relationships that 
transcend friendship.  I've always wondered why and I suppose it's 
because she started out with Harry having fairly superficial 
feelings.  There just isn't a whole lot of emotional depth there.  
Although we're in Harry's head, we never get to feel a satisfying 
level of his anguish or joy or rage.  JKR simply doesn't write that 
way.

Phoenixgod2000:
I have my gorgeous wonderfully supportive
fiance (Hi Honey!) with me in the bar plying me with liquor because
she finds my drunken rants on Snape endlessly amusing.

Nicky Joe:
That is the funniest thing I've heard all week!  Are we all 
completely demented?  Oh yeah, of course we are
  I just posted a 
fanfic on Fiction Alley after I swore up and down I'd NEVER write 
one.  I think I was under an Imperius curse
  Yeah!  That's my story 
and I'm sticking to it