One of the worst ideas for a romance fic I ever read

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I am, as my friends know, a Harry-Ginny fan, and was so long before HBP. However, there are things one simply should not do. I just read a story in which a twelve-year-old Harry falls in love with a ten-year-old Ginny during his summer at the Burrow. Apart from the gruesome unlikelihood of that, does the writer even realize that the emotions ascribed to Harry are paedophilic?

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I am afraid that this is not to the purpose. Harry's reaction to Ginny is presented as a mature falling-in-love, with all its contextual elements of physical attraction and emotional enchantment - for a child of ten. What you say about Harry's lack of sophistication is not wrong in itself, but has nothing to do with what happens in the fic.