Re: Cho Chang not Ginny

In article <f2inm3lnocp3tof1nuqamktcrkdfi0nh2l@xxxxxxx>,
Toon <toon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:38:52 -0600, Ron Hunter <rphunter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Dysperdis wrote:
Edward McArdle wrote:
In article <fkebu7$2h6$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
santosh <santosh.k83@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ron Hunter wrote:

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Consider what the environment is. Ginny is Harry's best friend's
sister. She is around in the same common room, Great Hall, and when
Harry visits the Burrow, she is around all the time. She is around 12
Grimmauld Place through the whole of the summer in OOTP. She is
around for all the lessons of the DA. She is on the Quidditch team.
There is a LOT of contact, and opportunity for contact. JKR just
doesn't choose to detail everything a person can scope out for
himself.
Well, considering that Harry is the hero of the series and thus by
association Ginny becomes a primary female character, Rowling should
honestly have given us more Harry-Ginny moments; They were
disappointingly few.



Let's see, how old were they in the first book or two?


...After which, Ginny gets completely ignored for two books. In fact, in
years 3 and 4, they only interact three times. When book 5 came out, it
took me a minute to remember who Ginny even was. There was no reason to
expect anything aside from a passing acquaintance with a friend's
sibling in the remaining books.


Yet there are Harry/Luna shippers, even though Luna wasn't in the first
4 books. Not that that would be all that unusual. I didn't meet my
wife until I was 25, and she was 20.
One shouldn't assume that what is specifically mentioned in the books is
all the interaction that would go on between Harry and Ginny. They are
in the same house, share a Common Room, Library, and eat at the same
table. There are not so many students that one wouldn't see all of
those in your same house almost every day, and she is the sister of his
best friend. He was quite conscious of Ginny in book 4 when Ron
suggested he ask her to the Yule Ball, and he found (somewhat to his
disappointment it seemed) that she already had a date.
I am just glad his first date with Ginny turned out better than my one
and only date with my best friend's sister!

There's a lot of skipped days in the books. August at the Weasley's
tends to be written for only a few days (until DH). Who knows what
happens during those skipped parts?

and while Harry and Luna had zero going on for them, there's no reason
in and of itself Harry's future wife couldn't be introduced in Book 5.
No one says she has to be the first girl Harry ever befriends.

Sorry. The Rules of Romance Writing demand that the love interest is
introduced on page 2. Ginny does not appear until much later - but she
is the first girl to appear in the first novel, so we readers who are
Aware of the Canonical Rules (my sisters read Romances) know she is
intended to be the Love Interest.

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