[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: Why did JKR not explore H/Hr as canon?.

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 168856

Betsy Hp:

Ginny is horrible to Ron, she's outrageously violent to Zach Smith
(if the WW worked under RW rules, Ginny's little broom stunt would
have cost Gryffindor the game, IMO), and she's really not happy
unless she's cutting someone down. Ginny is a bully, a bad
sportsman, a terrible team player, and a very angry little girl.
Which is entirely different from being spunky.

Now, if JKR *means* for Ginny to be suffering under some sort of
issue that has her on such a hair-trigger temper-wise, if JKR means
for Ginny to face and deal with whatever issue that is, it could
possibly save the character for me. What I fear is that JKR thinks
this particular Ginny is perfectly fine just the way she is.

Lynda:

I've decided that I see such extremes of behavior (adolescents who act a lot
like Ginny yet can be perfectly reasonable people at other times) that I
tend to see some of Ginny's behavior as just that--childish behavior that as
Rowling matures the character she will grow out of. I do realize that her
behavior is extreme and  unacceptable (so is Hermione's at times in fact and
while we're on the subject the two boys who were involved in that infamous
fight in the bathroom that landed one of them in detention for the rest of
the year), but keep in mind that I both work with kids who display extreme
manifestations of behavior that is not ordinarily acceptable--and I'm not
necessarily referring to the SH kids, but sometimes some of the regular ed
kids who decide that because the kids I work with are special ed, they can
encourage them to behave badly or make fun of them. And I wonder if kids
with developing magical abilities might not tend to abuse them at
times. After all, they are kids, not adults and wisdom comes with maturity.

Lynda


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