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

[don_elsenheimer]

No: HPFGUIDX 169055

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "serenadust" <jmmears at ...> 
wrote:
>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)?  

Don responds: Yes, a literal interpretation is exactly what I made. 
There's no textural indication of sarcasm, and Ginny is far more 
likely to respond to a hurt with a bat-bogey hex, rather than with 
irony.  In addition, a literal interpretation fits my analysis of her 
character (i.e. an immature still star-struck teen that wants to 
project her fairy-tail heroic imagine on to Harry). I also am pretty 
adament about a literal reading of this scene when I'm on the 
barricades of the ship wars...many H/G shippers insist that the war 
is over because of what they see on the printed page (and in the 
transcripts of JKR's limited interviews). They can't have it both 
ways.

Not that I have reason to put you in the latter camp, btw, as your 
reply doesn't take a stand on ships.