Which Harry Potter character you would have wanted to bring home

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 185969

JLyon wrote:
<snip> The rest of the female cast are practically names only. In
Ginny's case, just the facts that she allowed her first born to be
named Albus Severus condemns her. Does she have any idea the hell
those two purposely put her husband and supposed love through for
their own enjoyment? Does she have any sense of what is best for Harry
or is she just trying to  be the "perfect wife" as taught to her by
Mollycoddle and live in her dream world? <snip>

Carol responds:
Although the intention of this thread was to consider a particular
person as a husband or wife for ourselves, I'm going to follow your
example and consider Ginny as a wife for Harry.

I don't think she's quite the ideal wife that JKR seems to think she
is (in essence, Harry's reward for his sufferings, as if the HP books
were a Victorian Bildungsroman). for one thing, she's too much like
James Potter for my taste in her hexing of Zacharias Smith and her
knocking over the announcement booth (or whatever the thing was
called) because she didn't like his Quidditch commentary. She does,
however, have one or two things going for her. She stood up to Draco
in Flourish and Blotts in CoS and she pointed out to Harry that she
might be a good person to consult to find out whether he was being
possessed by Voldemort. (Duh, Harry!) I can forgive her lousy poetry
in her first year ("His eyes are as green as a pickled toad"). She was
only a little girl--and quite possibly not in her right mind.

As for consenting to name her son Albus Severus, that's a strong point
in her favor, IMO. It indicates that she understands what Harry
understands--that despite the sufferings those two men caused Harry,
without their help, he would not be alive and Voldemort would not have
been defeated.

Carol, who doesn't like Ginny but acknowledges her few good points,
*especially* her willingness to name her son Albus Severus