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Ginny and harry

My opinion on Harry and Jenny is very different I have never liked these two together and I was very disappointed when Harry ended up with her I always wanted Harry and Luna to end up together

So no hate on anybody who does like Harry and Ginny this is just my opinion and it's okay that you don't agree I'm just sharing my opinion
So again no hate on anybody who ships them this is just my opinion

Because Ginny made an almost instantaneous transformation from being ‘Ron’s shy sister’ to ‘popular, athletic girl set up to be Harry’s love interest’.

It’s almost as if J.K. Rowling had known all along that Ginny was to be Harry’s partner after the ending of book 7.

As a result, we lack any meaningful character development whatsoever for her in books 3 and 4. We never saw nor read about this transformation. We got one throwaway line where Hermione told Ginny to be herself and date other boys and that’s it.

Then, in books 5–7, Ginny is suddenly:

Awesome at Quidditch, to the point where she becomes a professional Quidditch player after the war.

So beautiful that even Slytherin students are attracted to her.

Popular, in Gryffindor as well as in other houses.

Capable of casting such a fantastic Bat-Bogey Hex that she gets to join the Slug Club. She also casts a powerful Patronus in her 4th year, only one year after Harry.

Easily holding her own in the battles of the Department of Mysteries, Astronomy Tower, and Hogwarts. Apart from a sprained ankle in the first battle, she always came out unscathed.

Very confident, brave, and a strong leader.

While this does not technically make her a Mary Sue, as some people claim, it does make her a shallow and uninteresting character. What are her flaws exactly? All we have to go on, are some vague hints that ‘she talks a lot and has a bit of a temper. Rarely do we see examples of that.

Compare this to Hermione, who is frequently shown as being bossy, condescending, jealous, stubborn, authoritarian to the extreme, and insecure. Hermione also struggles a bit with DA, is bad at flying, and has bushy hair and buck teeth to boot. All this makes Hermione a fleshed-out, interesting, and realistic character; while Ginny just looks shallow and one-sided in comparison.

On top of all this, Ginny also ends up with the person she obsessed over when she was a child and she has some striking similarities to Harry’s mother. This just seems cheesy and perhaps even unhealthy. Rowling also admitted that pairing Ron and Hermione was mostly her wish fulfillment and that she is not entirely happy with it now. Harry and Ginny seem to fit that same category.

Plus, in a fictional world that has Luna Lovegood in it, how could you possibly choose Ginny instead of Luna as Harry’s love interest

Because Ginny is a quite badly developed character. And no, I’m not only talking about the movie Ginny.

In books 1 and 2, Ginny is simply Ron’s younger sister with a silly fangirl crush. She’s shy (at least when Harry’s around) and naive. And she’s used as a helpless bait to get Harry to the Chamber. (Which is fine, really.)

In books 3 and 4, Ginny almost disappears completely. She’s mentioned 18 times in the entire Prisoner of Azkaban! It’s a little better in Goblet of Fire (46 times), but it’s mainly when Harry stays with the Weasley She during the Quidditch World Cup. It’s very frustrating because she’s still Ron’s sister (and her future love interest). Even Percy’s mentioned a lot more, and he’s not even a student anymore in Goblet of Fire.

In books 5 and 6, Ginny returns. Now, she’s extremely hot, brave, and funny. She’s said to be popular, and yet we can’t name any other female Gryffindor student in her year. She’s suddenly playing Quidditch better than Katie Bell, who’s been on the team for five years. Her flaws are ignored by everyone else - people think it’s funny when she calls Fleur ”Phlegm”, and when she’s hexing another student on the train, Slughorn puts her in the Slugclub.

How did this happen? Where was the character development?

There was none.

It’s like Rowling forgot about her and then remembered that Ginny was supposed to be the love interest, and she suddenly gave her a lot of traits she didn’t have before so she could ”deserve” the hero. It’s frustrating because things didn’t need to be that way if she only had, you know, existed in books 3 and 4.

There are so many unanswered questions about Ginny Weasley:

How was she affected by the events in Chamber of Secrets? Did she stop trusting strangers? Is that why she’s dating boys she wasn’t in love with and dumping them when they bored her?

Is Luna her best friend? How did they become friends despite being so different? How can Ginny be so popular yet being close friends with Luna? Why are none of the other Gryffindor girls in her year parts of DA?

When did Ginny start loving Harry rather than the Boy Who Lived?

We don’t know.

That’s why so many people hate the Harry and Ginny pairing. Many of them had expected Harry to end up with Hermione because that’s how things usually happen, and then Ginny appears out of nowhere. Unless it’s character development in between, lots of people will still see her as Ron’s shy younger sister with a fangirl crush, no matter how many times we’re told how awesome she is now.

And we can’t only blame the movies for that.

In Chapter 23 of Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore probes Harry's motivations for fighting Voldemort, pointing out that it's not just the prophecy driving Harry to fight:

“But, sir,” said Harry, making valiant efforts not to sound argumentative, “it all comes to the same thing, doesn’t it? I’ve got to try and kill him, or —”

“Got to?” said Dumbledore. “Of course you’ve got to! But not because of the prophecy! Because you, yourself, will never rest until you’ve tried! We both know it! Imagine, please, just for a moment, that you had never heard that prophecy! How would you feel about Voldemort now? Think!”

Harry watched Dumbledore striding up and down in front of him, and thought. He thought of his mother, his father, and Sirius. He thought of Cedric Diggory. He thought of all the terrible deeds he knew Lord Voldemort had done. A flame seemed to leap inside his chest, searing his throat.

“I’d want him finished,” said Harry quietly. “And I’d want to do it.”

This is not a thought that gives Harry joy. But Voldemort has caused so much pain, and so much of it has fallen on Harry, that Harry believes Voldemort needs to die, and that he needs to have a hand in it.

What does this have to do with Ginny? Well, in Chapter 30, she explains her perspective on why Harry is going to war:

“Well . . . I can’t say I’m surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn’t be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that’s why I like you so much.”

Ginny seriously misunderstands Harry's motivation. She makes it sound like he's going to hunt Voldemort because this is what makes him happy in life. Well, it's not. Harry is a reluctant hero; if he had his druthers, he'd be living a quieter life. But Harry sees wrongs being committed in the world, and he feels compelled to stop them. That's very different from the swashbuckling adventurer Ginny seems to believe she's dating.

In light of that, think about the next sentence: "Maybe that's why I like you so much." The person she likes isn't shy but responsible Harry she's dating; it's the adventuring hero of her fantasies. The Boy Who Lived she had a crush on since she was a little girl. The celebrity identity Harry has hated since the beginning.

Next up is romione