MAC*

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 179652

> Carol wrote:
> > with Ginny as the champion nerve grater in the
> > last three (mostly OoP and HBP).
> 
> Pippin Fowler asks:
> Carol, could you elaborate on that please? I ask because Ginny never 
> bothered me once in any way, and I'm just surprised to see her 
> mentioned among the MAC attacks.

Magpie:
Really? She'd certainly be on my list for OotP and HBP--and I know I' 
not alone there. Once she got her new personality every time she 
showed up she was advertised as the best girl ever, so she was always 
being sassy or people were telling us she was great, or she was 
zinging people with one-liners. I thought it was awful in OotP and 
then in HBP she crossed the line into, for me, something even worse. 
Almost every one of her lines was nasty, superior and putting someone 
down--which was a problem since she was obviously being put forth as 
the greatest girl ever ("warm and compassionate" is how JKR described 
her--yikes!). It was not only irritating but for me painfully 
artificial.

In DH she calmed down a bit and became the waiting-at-home-as-a-reward-
when-the-war's-over girlfriend, which was a huge improvement I 
thought. I liked her before her "Look how awesome she's been all the 
time!" revelation, but OotP and HBP Ginny went beyond annoying for me  
into hateful Mary Sue please push her out a window territory. When I 
try to think of her and Harry being married I mostly just imagine all 
the other parents trying to avoid dealing with them. 

-m