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

[don_elsenheimer]

No: HPFGUIDX 169047

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at ...> 
wrote:
>
> I took that completely differently...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.  

Don's reply:  Stoic resolve and putting on a brave face is one way of 
responding to this situation, but Ginny is anything but stoic.  She's 
supposed to be the spark-plug red-head fire-brand, right? The girl 
with six brothers who doesn't put up with anyone's bs.

Sherry:
"Of course she knows he won't be happy, but that this is what he has 
to do, this is his destiny and future."

Don's reply: Wives and girlfriends have sent their men off to war and 
to their "destiny and future" for thousands of years.  How many say 
the equivalent of what Ginny said? If your read of the scene is 
right, I would have expected her to say something like, "I 
understand...you have to do what you have to do, and I love you for 
that."  

Sherry:
"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."  

Don's reply: laughter! Sherry, you are a closeted HHr shipper! That's 
exactly what Ginny should have said.  But she didn't. Guess who did, 
though?  Harry didn't want Hermione and Ron to horcrux hunt, but 
Hermione said that she was already a target and that there was no way 
she wasn't going to be by his side.