[HPforGrownups] Why Ginny is not the part of the Trio WAS: Re: CHAPDISC: HBP30, The White Tomb

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 165731


>> a_svirn:
>> Well, yes, I think you are right. Obviously, Rowling wanted the
> Trio to
>> be always a Trio. But speaking personally, as a reader, I would
> like to
>> have it explained from Harry's point of view. OK, he ended their
>> romantic relationship for "some stupid noble reason". But what was
> (is)
>> the cause of her constant exclusion? You (and me) may not see the
>> reason to "change the core of Trio", but it occurs to me that
> Harry
>> might have thought of a reason or two.
>>
>
> Alla:
>
> Hmmmm, that is a good point. I agree that I would like to hear it
> from Harry's POV, but only starting HBP, I guess.
>
> I suppose that before HBP it never felt strange for me from Harry's
> POV. Ginny was just Ron's little sister, even if she is friendly
> one, loyal one, the one he had to save, etc.
>
> Starting HBP and probably even OOP, Harry finds more staff in common
> with her, she is a member of the DA, and Harry falls in love with
> her and supposedly, no matter how short that was, it is friendship
> first, love later, so I think I would agree that in HBP I would love
> to hear why Harry still does not include Ginny in Trio's business.

Magpie:
Not to be so picky about this, but Harry doesn't say anything about being in 
love with Ginny. While I'm pretty sure they'll wind up in love and married 
etc., their relationship is very much a high school boy and girlfriend. He 
has pleasant times with her that feel like "someone else's life" but it 
hasn't gotten to the point where he's really changed much of his outlook at 
all, much less changed to the point of saying that Ginny must be included in 
Trio business.  The relationship isn't presented as a grand romance Harry's 
giving up. It's more on the level of his giving up school for a year. It's 
something he'll come back to and then he can fall in love with her or 
whatever (off screen).

Because it's just not that big of a deal, it doesn't seem to require an 
explanation from Harry either. H/G romance has never become really part of 
the narrative so that it seems like we're losing something. I mean, we get 
Harry thinking about her beforehand and the whole chase, but once they're 
together we just hear that he likes spending time with her and a couple of 
scenes where Ginny gets more sassy lines and Ron looks foolish. I think even 
to the two of them it's not so important in the scheme of things that Ginny 
would feel like she needed to be included in things she hadn't been before 
and vice versa.

-m