On Ginny

[donnaimmaculata]

Apparently, there are those who say that Harry only went for Ginny because she's Lily II. Regardless on whether or not this is true - would that be that bad if the boy fell in love with a girl who reminded him - if only superficially - of his mother? I know that I tend to go for boys who have something in common with my father. I'm not attracted to my father at all, but I've read a silly little poem he wrote in my diary when I was ten recently, and I realised that I could so fall for a man who writes like that. And then I thought, OMG, it's my father! And: But the poem's so cute and witty!

What I'm trying to say is that there's nothing wrong with being attracted to someone because there are certain characteristics about them which remind you of your parents. Unless there's something seriously wrong with me, which I wouldn't quite rule out.

I've always liked Ginny. She's the only female character in the novels who's ever showed a sense of humour. Her newly developed ability of being entertaining is a logical extrapolation of her capability of laughing at silly things, which she had shown from the very beginning. She's unnecessarily bitchy? Growing up at Molly's daughter, she had to find some way to deal with her pent-up frustrations.

Comments

[mafdet.livejournal.com]

The thing with Ginny - as well as most of the female HP characters - is that they just plain cannot win. If they are "too cool" or otherwise appealing, they are Mary Sues. If they aren't attractive enough, it's "What does he see in her?" You can bet that if Ginny were quiet and mousy we'd be deluged with "Why is Harry interested in HER?" comments.

The only way Ginny could be a Mary Sue, IMO, is if JKR suddenly changed the books to be All About Her, and instead of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince we had Ginevra Weasley and the Half-Blood Prince where Ginny was the heroine of the books and the one to defeat Voldemort. And she doesn't. The books are still all about Harry, with Ginny as a secondary character.

And you are right that a love interest has to have some appeal. Good god can you imagine the outcry if Ginny was NOT conventionally attractive? Or *gasp* a bit overweight? We'd be treated to screeds of "OMG DIE FAT BITCH" all the livelong day.