SHIP: Re: My $.02 on the ships in the book :-)

[don_elsenheimer]

No: HPFGUIDX 168924

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tandra" <tkjones9 at ...> wrote:
>
> I do believe she made the
> transition from Goupie(as someone called her) to actual feelings
> for Harry. Again, just cause we didn't see her make the change
> doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Don responds:
One of the things that readers do see (time and time again) are
Harry's negative responses to people that insist on treating him
(and judging him) as the Boy-Who-Lived, rather than "Just Harry."
Therefore, any "off-camera" transition of Ginny from Groupie to
the Girl-Who-Treats-Harry-Like-A-Real-Person would be a terrible
bit of writing that conflicts directly with one of her central
themes.

Although, that would be consistent with JKR's self-proclaimed
insistence to remain true to the last page of Book 7 text that
was written before the first book was published.  I really don't
care for that, by the way.  If an author's original characters
are like their children, they should be allowed to grow and
develop over the course of a seven book series like children
(i.e. without arranged marriages and pre-destined career paths).