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

[serenadust]

No: HPFGUIDX 169012

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "don_elsenheimer" 
<don_elsenheimer at ...> wrote:


> 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.


I'm confused by this statement.  Do you mean that you interpreted that 
statement of Ginny's at Dumbledore's funeral literally?  As in, she 
actually is saying that "hunting Voldemort" (the actual quote) makes 
Harry "happy" (ie, joyful, light-hearted)?  I confess that it's never 
even occured to me that anyone would interpret her statement this way.  
My reading was that she'd been expecting this sort of gesture from 
Harry for some time because she knows that he'll never be able to rest, 
or get on with his life while Voldemort is still out there.  In effect, 
she's saying that the reason she likes him is because he is who he is.

Please forgive me if I'm misunderstanding what you are saying, but I 
don't see where anything in that sentence "goes against both the truth 
and what someone who knows the 'real' Harry would say."

Jo S.