Sorry to Ginny-lovers (if there are such people LOL) but here are the 2 quotes that just prevents me from liking her.
The first one - uh, excuse me, who told you to join the freaking conversation in the first place?! And after Hermione freaking helped you basically to get Harry? Great girl, this one.
And the second one - OH WOW. You’re soooo sure Harry would forget about you once he and Cho goes to the Ravenclaw Common Room alone aren’t you? Oh, that’s true love then!
No need to apologize for your opinion. I don’t agree with it, but it’s nothing to feel sorry for. I’ve never been bothered by either passage, honestly, and I’ll explain why.
Hermione kept trying to place the blame on the book while Harry wanted to place the blame on himself. Harry correctly, in my opinion, acknowledged that the book itself didn’t make him do anything or manipulate him in any way. It was he who had simply acted irresponsibly in using parts of the book without fully understanding them. However, it’s obvious that while some parts of the book were harmless, like how to brew an excellent liquid luck potion, other parts were more dangerous like the sectum sempera spell labeled “for enemies.” Harry was in the wrong for naively believing a spell for enemies wouldn’t have been so brutal; it wasn’t the book’s fault, though. But Hermione wouldn’t acknowledge Harry’s contrition and continued to nag him when he was already overwhelmed.
The worst part, though, comes in when Hermione reveals part of her motivation for being so relentlessly harsh with Harry. When she lashes out “nastily” with the complaint that Harry “got a reputation for Potions brilliance you don’t deserve,” it’s clear that Hermione has a grudge against Harry and the book for wounding her pride as a top potions student. I’m not surprised that Ginny noticed this for what it was and finally told Hermione to “give it a rest” and that Harry was “grateful” as a result.
It’s also perplexing why Hermione would assume that when Ginny described the spell as “something good” she meant in any sort of moral or ethical sense. Based on the context of her statement, Ginny obviously only meant that it was fortunate that Harry had something with which to defend himself. Her judgment was explicitly regarding the end result (i.e. Harry was safe) and not the means (i.e. a slashing spell that can cause fatal injury). Hermione even agrees with this assessment when she says she was glad Harry wasn’t cursed.
Not satisfied with her level of dominance in the discussion, however, Hermione shows that it’s not below her to fight dirty. See, she immediately tries to shift her focus to Ginny, but the clumsy way she does it reveals how calculating Hermione was being. Telling Ginny, “I’d have thought, seeing what this has done to your chances in the match,” made it look like Hermione searched her brain for what she thought Ginny would care about more than Harry so Ginny would be persuaded to reconsider her own position and, thus, share in Hermione’s rage. She was wrong.
If you think about it, Hermione’s thought processes and emotional responses are quite consistent. Hermione apparently cares a great deal about being the best student in everything, and it’s what nurtured her resentment of Harry’s skill at potions via the Prince’s book. So Hermione assumed that Ginny’s mind worked the same way. She thought Ginny cared so much about Quidditch that, once reminded of the team’s diminished chances for success, Ginny would share Hermione’s brand of resentment and not take Harry’s side. Because of these ignorant and arrogant assumptions on Hermione’s part, I’m not shocked that Ginny’s retort would imply she recognized what Hermione was doing and that it wasn’t going to work.
As for the incident with Cho in Deathly Hallows, I find Ginny’s territorial behavior sympathetic. She not only was likely a bit emotionally raw given her long separation from Harry, but it’s clear to me that it wasn’t Harry she didn’t trust, but Cho. Ginny wasn’t concerned about Hermione being with Harry all that time in the wilderness and she wasn’t concerned about Luna going with Harry in search of the diadem. I also believe Ginny’s actions are not at all indicative of a lack of true love between her and Harry.
I don’t know if you’ve ever watched the NBC television show Friday Night Lights, but there’s a fantastic married couple on the show who are consistently portrayed as truly and as deeply in love with each other as they had been 15 years earlier when they first met; yet even they would show signs of protecting their place in their beloved’s life when an ex entered the picture. It’s a natural and understandable reaction, which Harry himself displayed when he was jealous of Krum complimenting Ginny at Bill and Fleur’s wedding.
So feel free to dislike Ginny; it’s your right. However, neither incident tarnishes Ginny, to me, because I can empathize with her reactions, appreciate how her flaws make her more human and three dimensional, and recognize that she is most definitely not more flawed than other characters. I still like Harry, Ron, Hermione, and many others despite them saying or acting in a way that is not ideal because of the emotions involved. So I am perfectly content to continue loving Ginny Weasley.
Rebloggin this because this person just stated everything that was on my mind while reading the original post. LIKE EVERY FREAKING THING, AMEN!
I want to say to some potterheads “please don’t kill me”, but it’s curious, when you realize that the most persons who have a better understand about the Harry Potter story are the Harry/Ginny shippers, or in few words, the canon ones… they understand what J.K. Rowling wants to mean truely.
^^^^^ It bothers me that people look at Ginny in the first quote and judge her, but no one says a thing about Hermione. Don’t you think that she was being a little harsh on Harry? NOOOO. We can’t say anything bad about her can we?
And what’s wrong about Ginny being a little hesitant to leave those two alone. They were sort of involved weren’t they? Just put yourself in Ginny’s position. You would be lying if you wouldn’t feel the same way. And it ends with: “Cho sat down again, looking disappointed.” Why would she be disappointed if she didn’t like Harry anymore? She obviously did. I’m with Ginny here.
omg flawless response on Ginny. eeeek love seeing this! :D
Why would anyone call out Ginny for either one? I won’t delve with the first cause it’s been explained to death, and very well in that first comment.
As for the second one, any girl in Ginny’s shoes for that second passage would have done the same thing.
You’re lying if you can honestly say you, in Ginny’s shoes, won’t stop Cho from going with Harry.
Heck, I would have done the same thing, if not more, just to prevent Cho from being with Harry. That’s what being a teenager in love would do.
Again, tell me one teenage girl who wouldn’t have done the same.
I bet Harry even loved that moment, once he had the time to remember it had happened.
I bet his chest monster danced around happy when Harry remembered Ginny being vocal about Cho not campaigning him — the same way it was so happy when it learned that Ginny and Dean broke up — cause he’s a teenage boy who’ll celebrate the idea of the girl he likes being jealous and/or cautious of his old crush.
The last time I heard, boys like that.
They failed again, didn’t they?
flawless, indeed. yes, mostly who understand the context of the books are from H/G shippers.
And I’d like to remind also who thinks that Harry being with Ginny is awkward because she looks like her mom? I don’t remember reading something that Ginny looks like Harry’s mom. You can’t seriously say that just because of the same color hair either? Oh wow, Asian wives shouldn’t marry their Asian husbands because their husbands’ hair is black that it reminds them their father. Not even personalities because Lily is not into Quidditch, which is the opposite of Ginny. And Ginny is the funny one which Lily is a serious one. If anything that reminds Harry of her mother, much more likely by Hermione (both are muggles). Fortunately for Lily, she’s not bossy.
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