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

[-jme-]

No: HPFGUIDX 169063

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.

   
  jme says:
Forgive me for saying this but I think this conclusion might be a tad bit of stretching from Ginny's comments at the end of HBP. I can't really see how you can read that from what Ginny said. It seemed to me that the situation was a simple question of continuing the relationship considering that they were at the brink of war with Harry at the forefront. For me, it looked like she was conceeding to his decision to basically put everything they had on hold because of things he has to do. 
  Most HHr shippers use this scenario against the HG ship mainly because IMO we have always envisioned an equal heroine for Harry. Given his almost nonexistent familial connections, we were hoping for some who would always stay by his side the way his best friends had. IMO, an equal partner for Harry would not be contented to sit on the sidelines while her man goes off to god-knows-where to confront a raving megalomaniac. Granted with how stubborn Harry is, there is always the chance that she may not have won that argument but the point was she should have at least fought for that right.
  IMHO, the debate on whether Hermione or Ginny should end up with Harry stems from the fact that the strongest male and female characters [i.e. Harry and Hermione] do not really have equals in the story. Ron and Hermione are poles apart and they fight constantly. It's one thing to be argumentative but it's a totally different thing to always be fighting and hurting each other. That do not constitute a healthy relationship in anyway you look at it. On the other spectrum meanwhile, Ginny and Harry rarely fight [if they ever did]. I'm not saying that's a bad thing but what's troubling about their relationship is how Harry totally dominates Ginny. Dominate in terms of the more important things, she concedes to Harry automatically without even pressing her side of things. A trait which is totally contrary to the independent and free-spirit portrayal of her in canon and which to me, suggests that while she may have gotten over the BWL persona of Harry, the problem might now lie
 in her idealizing him. This is, again, not healthy in any relationship.
  If maybe JKR had fleshed it a bit more, they would have worked better. Then again, the main focus of the story is the tragic hero and his journey so maybe that's also a good thing.


    
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