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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 169052

> 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.
>
Pippin:
If Harry had the same sort of feelings about Hermione that he does
about Ginny, he wouldn't have let her come with him, and if she
did, it would be a hindrance.  Harry had to leave a wounded 
Hermione behind in order to protect the prophecy and Ginny
knows that. He doesn't want to have to make that kind of 
a choice about her. 

 Ginny  will still be in danger, but she'll be a lot safer at Hogwarts, 
the now-fortified Burrow, or at Grimmauld Place than she would 
be traipsing around the WW with Harry. She understands that 
the most important thing she can do for Harry right now is 
keep herself safe. It's not like Voldemort is going to be defeated 
by the bat bogey hex. And I'm sure things will change in a 
heartbeat if there is something Ginny alone can do. 

What Ginny meant, IMO is that Harry won't be  happy if he stays 
out of  the war  to be with her. She trusts   that if she does
need to know what Harry's doing, or he needs her help, he'll tell her. 
It's *not* an  immature trust in some hero, it's the same kind of 
trust the adults gave to Dumbledore. They understood that 
knowing too much would expose the Order to great danger,
since no matter how faithful they might be, only highly
skilled occlumency or the Fidelius Charm could shield
information from Voldemort for very long. It shows growth
on Ginny's part that she accepts this now, instead of throwing
a fit like she did at the beginning of OOP when her mother
refused to let her listen in on Harry's conversation with
Sirius.

Pippin