Ginny's awesomeness (was Why did JKR not explore H/Hr as canon?)

Ryan Smith tulaksam at yahoo.com
Thu May 17 21:07:58 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 168899

Phoenixgod said:

>Harry is a prodigy when it comes to flying. He is also the hero of the
story. It's okay when he does cool stuff every once in the while
during the story. Ginny was a nonentity for most of the series only
to burst onto the scene with amazing skills she trained in secretly
off screen who snatches the snitch out from under Cho Chang, an
experienced seeker and wins the cup for the team.

>The next year she is playing a different position, is the life and
soul of the team and scores practically at will. Please.
 
 
Miss Ryan comes out of lurking long enough to say the following:
 
I personally am willing to except that there are a lot of things that happen in the WW that we'll never find out, simply because they don't interest Harry.  Honestly, Harry had no interest in Ginny until the summer before year 6, when he learns that she is more than just his best friend's sister.  She -is- the life and soul of -his- team. We have to remember that the story is -Harry's-  told from his viewpoint...and the boy gets a lot of things wrong the first go around.  Just because in Harry's story, he fails to notice Ginny's mad Quidditch skills, doesn't mean that in -Ginny's- story, we won't find her agonizing how to become a better player to impress a certain boy that she likes...just my two knuts.
 
This battle is symbolic, too, because who knows if he would have kissed her if Cho Chang had found the snitch?  It's the metaphoric battle for Harry's heart.




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