Thats the thing though, in the books Harry is normal. It doesn't make much sense, but the fact is that JKR has written Harry as if the emotional abuse and neglect were a minor problem in his life, and that one whole year with his parents firmly made him a loving and caring human being.

I think most people hate Harry/Ginny because of the fanfiction is filled with crap. Ginny is a 2D character, she isn't even remotely flushed out in the books, so authors can do what they want with her, what they tend to do is the same thing.

 

Patil Twins uke: have u seen them in the GOF movie they are ugly as hell. anyways i dont like Ginny/Harry mostly because it reminds me of the poor excuse for a book HBP also because Ginny started likeing him because he is the boy who lived. also the whole thing seems almost like incest. harry refers to Mrs. Weasley as almost a mother figure so its like he is dating his sister..... ewwww

 

the hormone argument doesn't fly in the face of rowling stating that ginny is the 'ideal girl' for harry.

nowhere in canon is her statement supported. and her statement sure doesn't seem to implicate hormones as much as faux-soul-mate-ness.

 

And at the same time, Harry is starting to like Ginny. I mean, It did come out of nowhere. They sat down in the library and Ginny gave him an easter egg, and he got all flustered. That was the start of it all as far as im concerned and its ridiculous...

At least Ron and Hermiones' relationship has been built up to some degree.

So is Ginny, and the Dursleys are supposed to be blonde and the twins are not supposed to be tall lanky fellas, Ron is, the twins are supposed to be short fat little jokers

p.182 of HBP uk 1st edition.... Anyway. Ginny tips up and harry gets a waft of that flowery scent he picked up in Slughorns Dungeon.

When i first read that bit, i immediatly assumed love potion involved, but i suppose it is ambiguous. I am praying desperatly (dont know who or what to) that Ginny wacked Harry with some love potion and he is going to go scitzo

 

Honestly how can anyone think that Ginny would be right for Harry Simply cause JKR says so. What I mean is that the only thing backing her statement up is the fact that through out the entire series is that everyone is either saying or thinking that, Harry would like Ginny simply for the fact that she resembles Lily the most. However throughout the entire series JK ponits out that Lily is not only very pretty but also very smart.

 

LMAO, no offense, but that argument means jack shit to me. Actually, I tend to think the opposite of whatever Rowling says. Attractive...maybe if you find dirt-poor little grunge mites with orange soda hair and scabby knees who stick their elbows in butter dishes to be hot or something.

*Still thinks Harry/Cho is the only truly good pairing*

 

^ Only hates the red-headed cumbag because her name isn't Cho Chang.

 

^ Still supports the Bush Administration

And no, that's incorrect. I have various reasons for not liking Ginny, mainly that she's a dirt-poor little grunge mite with orange soda hair and scabby knees whos stick her elbow in the butter dish.

 

meh

For the most part fic writers aren't very good at the Romance aspect of their writing, and as such just have the characters suddenly fall in love with no preamble. The simple fact is right now H/G is the most common ship around...that's why I dislike it. Moreover I dislike any fic in which the writer doesn't bother to have a courting period at all. Most of the fics have him proposing after only having known her for a few months, sleeping together within the first month, and gushing over how in love they are with eachother. It's ungodly unrealistic and lazy writing. Just once I'd like to see a H/G fic from HG's point of view in which she loves harry but is trying to be supportive of H/G. That would be realistic..

 

Thems fightin words. You n Me Sera... Pistols at dawn.

 

You don't like poor people? thats shallow.. O well i mainly dislike her because everyone else loves her and i have to be different, i also hate red hair..

 

I'm indifferent to them in real life, but I'll latch onto anything to insult Ginslut with. In Harry's case, having to pay for literally everything is another reason not to want anything to do with the ratty little orange mongrel. Emphasize the 'dirt' over the 'poor.'

 

I don't hate Harry, I don't hate Ginny and I don't hate them together. I think they are old enought to choose who they want to date. Don't you?

 

No, I prefer not to think think of fictional characters in the same way as I would real people, actually. They don't exist, so the entire idea of them 'choosing' who they want to date is ridiculous.

 

I wasn't implying that JK didn't that Ginny wasn't thoughs but simply that, was seemimgly her only reason for haveing HArry fall for her. To me it seemed like, that with Ginny always being compared to Lily, would be the sole reason for Harry falling for her, like it's some sort of link to his mother or something. rather than him just haveing her eyes. Maybe i'm not expaining myself clearly or something.

 

Mmm, when I'm writing, I think the opposite way - I let my characters be alive, and then plot a set of events, and let them react the way they want to react. Do I have a problem with H/G dating? Not if it followed the way the book's plots and previous writing demanded, but they don't, and as such it seems cock-eyed and idiotic.

 

Precisely dear Elias. I don't know how JKR does it. And I am sure she has a lot planned out before. But I also thinks she changes things as she writes, she lets her characters do what her characters do and in her mind they are alive. And I know in the minds of many people they are alive.

 

Regardless, she's still accountable for how they've acted in the past. All the characters were so out-of-character for the entire book it was like they'd been getting hormone injection therapy. If she's going to let them live, she's got to respect the fact that with the exception of a traumatizing event, people aren't going to change like that. And with Harry's dismissal of Sirius' death... well, I'd say there were no grounds for the OOC-ness.