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fandomsecrets2009-02-15 05:33 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2009-02-15 05:33 pm
[ SECRET POST #772 ]
⌈ Secret Post #772 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Might be some repeats from when LJ crashed thkgjhf
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Re: 146
I think Ginny, as a character, got short-changed. I don't recall any hints that she was "feisty" prior to the last few books. She was shy, mousy and a background character with the idol-type crush on Harry that was rather cute. That's not to say I disliked her. Nor did I dislike new!Ginny. What I disliked was the sudden and inexplicable transition from none extreme (shy) to the other (feisty), with the only given explanation being that she was showing Harry that she's over him (as per Hermione's suggestion). To me, it carried heavy over-tones that she needed to change to catch his attention. I feel like her other boyfriends were similar devices--Ginny may have cared for them, but rather than natural parts of character development and perhaps allowing her to actually be shown moving on from Harry (thus not letting her shyness overwhelm her and allowing the "feisty girl" we're supposed to believe is under it shine), I feel like JKR treated them as stepping stones. They deserved better too.
As to "rushed", in book-terms it was very rushed. Harry went from not noticing her even as a background character to the infamous chest-monster within a half a book? Considering everything else that was crammed into the series, I would have thought JKR could find time to mention that Ron's little sister is doing X this weekend, or that Harry thinks robe looks good on her. Instead, it's very much as though she were simply slapped into the book because Harry Needed a Girlfriend. He's the main character, but what should have been a major character development (falling in love) was given a tenth of the time we got for the two major-minors.
Unfortunately, a lot of the female (and not a few male) characters were given similar treatments. Rowling had very specific ideas about what she wanted to do with various characters, and when the last few books loomed with no development in those directions, she took some very sloppy short cuts. Of course, if she hadn't we'd be staring down the face of book 8 right now (for non-pairing purposes, seeing as the Deathly Hallows came by way of similar short cuts), but that it was necessary to contain the series doesn't make it somehow not poor writing.
That the books weren't about shipping?
Perhaps that JKR should leave the romance on the cutting room floor next time. Or simply that the good romances are the ones she remembered to work on. Of course, the hero had to be paired off (please note sarcasm mode: it is on). I just wish she'd done it better, and that she'd not given Ginny the short end of the stick. Mt two cents. (shrug) Disagree all you like.