Which Harry Potter character you would have wanted to bring home

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 185972


> 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. 

Pippin:
Unlike James Potter, Ginny hexed people when she was provoked, not
because she was bored, and she doesn't seem to have a reputation as a
bully.  Besides, Harry thinks enough of James to have named a child
after him. It shows, I think, that Harry accepted that James outgrew
the worst of his bullying ways. We can probably assume that Ginny did
too, especially since she was never as bad as James in the first place.

Regardless of one's personal opinion about whether  Dumbledore and
Snape deserve Harry's respect, Ginny's agreement shows that she and
Harry are a good match. It would be pretty ugly if Harry thought they
were worthy of the highest honor he could give and she didn't.

 Dumbledore asked Harry's forgiveness for what he had done, and as for
Snape's taunting, it didn't need to be forgiven,  IMO, because Harry
grew noble enough and secure enough to ignore it. 

Pippin