Just an observation

[fpb]

Does anyone seriously believe that Ginny was serious when she promised to let Harry go look for the Horcruxes and Voldemort alone? Does anyone want to make a guess when Harry will find that she has been either following him or going on the adventure by herself? Me, I say by the fifth chapter at most.

Comments

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

I don't want to actually try and pick a chapter for that moment, but I laughed out loud when she "promised" and Harry apparently believed her. This is *Ginny*. Of coruse she's going to follow them. (The only alternative I could see would be if Harry made her promise to resurrect the D.A. in his absence.)

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the DA needs to be resurrected big time!

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I haven't thought about that at all.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Remember, she is the one who told Harry and Hermione that "the thing with living with Fred and George is that you start thinking that everything is possible if you just have the nerve." Or something like that, I'm not checking the actual passage.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Now I'm wondering about her role in Book 7, and what it could possibly be. Y'know, no disrespect to Harry/Hermione shippers, but the role of the hero's girlfriend is really quite boring. Hero's ex-girlfriend? Even more boring. Maybe Ginny will turn out to be the last Horcrux or something.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I am not as pessimistic as that myself.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

I didn't much like HBP, so my expectations should be lowered. Some part of me will always hope to be blown away by Book 7, though.

And, by the way! *HUG!*

To the rest of the audience, explains

[fpb.livejournal.com]

This lady has a somewhat bewildering habit of sudden motiveless hugs.

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

the role of the hero's girlfriend is really quite boring

Not if she ends up doing something exptremely daring to save him!

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Eh. See, that's what I don't like about the girlfriend role. She's always either saving him or he's saving her. Pretty soon, it starts to sound like a Baptist tent revival meeting.

I LOVE a good romance (hey, can you tell from my icons?) but what I love about it is the equal weight given to both participants. The Mary-Jane role is second fiddle to the Peter Parker one, and that's what I don't like about it.

That's just my opinion, though. Somebody out there must like it, or there's a lot of stories that wouldn't be as popular as they are!

(corrects himself)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. Well, I just love romance for its own sake. And having read Spider-Man from day one, I could never believe in M-J as the girlfriend or wife at all. She was the happy-go-lucky party girl for too long - after that, it always felt to me like, "well, let's pair him off with someone - anyone." I'd much rather, in that case, have paired him with the Black Cat or any one of twenty potential female companions that did not carry so much baggage.

Re: (corrects himself)

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

I don't read comic books, just watch comic book movies (a strange habit of mine, but I can't afford a new hobby). But it seems like most superheroes are bereft of getting girlfriends or wives who are their equals in character. I mean, Batman's girlfriends alone - !

Re: (corrects himself)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well... superhero movies... Cyclops and Jean Grey? (Although by all accounts the third movies slaughtered the great Dark Phoenix story of the early eighties.) As for the Batman, he has only ever had two girlfriends worthy of him - Catwoman and Poison Ivy - and they are both villains. Says something about the strangeness of his character.

Re: (corrects himself)

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Lois Lane at least has her own storyline.

Jean Grey. Good example. (The third movie also slaughtered Cyclops. No shit.) I suppose it's my own bias that I didn't think about any superheroines or villains when I was searching my memories for superhero girlfriends that I liked.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Exactly. YOu are thinking of Flash Gordon and Dale Arden, but frankly I could never see what he saw in her - beautiful but cowardly, jealous and dumb. One hopes that modern girls - especially redheads! - would be shown with a bit more spirit.

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

I agree. Harry won't be able to shake her that easily. And I'm sure at some point he'll realise how much he really needs her... though that might take 30 chapters, at least!

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think that if he is really in love with her - and JKR made that pretty bloody clear - he would very soon be missing her so badly that he'd be relieved when she turned up. He might try to disguise it, he might try to cover it up by scolding her, but he'd feel like he's suddenly moved from the depth of winter to high sunny spring, and he would almost certainly soon be singing.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I can accept Ginny as Harry's girlfriend, but she doesn't interest me as much as Hermione and... Luna Lovegood. Yes, I know Luna Lovegood is in some ways a caricature, but some things she says and some ways she acts really intrigued me. Ginny is SO healthy and normal. A sports star. Popular with the boys. Stands up for herself. Beautiful. She is definitely a HUGE improvement over Cho Chang, and she's got the advantage of being a Weasley, but she's too much of an easy success for me to identify with her very much. But *Harry* likes her, and she likes Harry, so I'm willing to wait and see what J. K. Rowling wants to do with it.