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

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 169009

Don replies:  
I'll still hang my hat on the last chapter of the last book (6), where Ginny
tells Harry that she "knows" he wouldn't be happy unless he was fighting
Voldemort. Either JKR and her editor(s)did a sloppy job letting this comment
get into print (as it goes against both the truth and what someone who knows
the "real" Harry would say), or Ginny is still an immature girl who wants to
project her idea of what Harry "should" be onto who he really is. 



Sherry:

I took that completely differently.  I don't think Ginny knows Harry will be
*happy*, but I do think she knows he feels this is what he has to do.  But
also, she was hurt, and that's the kind of comment a girl might make in such
a circumstance, trying to pretend she isn't hurt, that she understand and
all that crap.  I do exactly the same kind of thing, so I don't show the
hurt too much to the person who is doing the hurting.  It isn't really about
Ginny thinking Harry won't be happy unless he's fighting Voldemort.  Of
course she knows he won't be happy, but that this is what he has to do, this
is his destiny and future.  I found it moving, though at the same time, I
wanted to tell Harry to get a life and to realize that of course everyone
knows about Ginny and his relationship, and it's too late to make such a
gesture.  And I wanted to tell Ginny to fight against his words, because I
know I would have done what she did.  

Sherry