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⌈ Secret Post #1667 ⌋

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I agree with every word and sentiment you have expressed here.

I totally agree with you. Ginny felt more like a non-entity with me, not a character I like or dislike, just being there, and I like the way that Snape is written, but I find him a horrible person.

You're not alone, anon.

Yuuup. Pretty much everything you said here, OP (except for maybe the Luna part). I've always been apathetic to Ginny. She definitely isn't the Mary Sue people are making her out to be, but she isn't all that amazing either. As for Snape... yeah... I mean, he was certainly a well developed character, but that doesn't mean I liked him in the least.

I agree about Ginny. I'm a huge Snape fan, but I've run into the problem you describe with characters in other series. They're interesting and well-written. I just can't bring myself to like them.

The dislike for Ginny is all J.K Rowling fault, she was ok until Half-Blood Prince when she became a random love interest for Harry.

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royaleconqueso.livejournal.com - 2011-07-28 03:38 (UTC) - Expand

Ginny got the same shaft as Snape: rather than have a coherent charaterization in mind, JKR just made them whoever the plot needed them to be. No matter how little logical sense that made.

DragonLady

royaleconqueso.livejournal.com - 2011-08-01 04:28 (UTC) - Expand

Y'know, I count myself among the snapefen and I agree with everything you said. You at least acknowledge the one thing that most haters don't with Snape. He's the most complex, realistic character in the books. And being realistic occasionally means not likeable.

And I love everything you said about Ginny because I feel the exact same way. I don't hate her, and I don't get why so many people do, she's just sorta...there.

zalixethbe.livejournal.com - 2011-07-29 00:08 (UTC) - Expand

And Snape reminds me of those shitty teachers, if you don't like kids/teens don't work as a teacher.

pervert-bitch.livejournal.com - 2011-07-30 19:11 (UTC) - Expand

I wish you didn't have to keep this a secret. As long as you're not being a jerk about it, you should be able to dislike or not care about any character you want. I will never understand fen who need everybody to like their favorite characters.

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masterfedora.livejournal.com - 2011-08-16 01:44 (UTC) - Expand

Why don't you write exactly what you just said here in your journal and friends-lock it, or something? You're not being unreasonable in your explanations.

So much agreement. Seriously, I agree with literally all of this.

Aside from the Luna thing, I could have written this secret in my sleep. I get flack for not liking Snape as a person all the time.,

I am so very down with this. I like Ginny more than you do, but you're not a hater, you're just not particularly into her AND THAT IS JUST FINE (I DO understand why Ginny stans would be defensive, though, tbh. She gets a lot of hate). I also like Snape, because I like that he's a total asshole to an almost-irredeemable level BUT when the shit goes down will fight for good, even if nobody knows it. But I totally understand thinking a character is complex and well-written and interesting but still not really liking them. That's fine too!

Hey man, you like what you like! You're respectful, reasonable, and more than entitled to your opinion. Anyone who gives you shit is clearly not respectful and reasonable.

Sincerely,

A Ginny and Snape fan.

inuyatta.livejournal.com - 2011-07-31 03:54 (UTC) - Expand

That's a fair argument. I like Snape, but I can see how he'd be an unlikeable character. He's not supposed to be a nice guy, but fans probably tend to gloss over that more often than not.

As to Ginny, well undeserved hate or not, JK could have done better with her.

holy crap are you me?????

One of the things I like about Snape is that he's proof that nice does not equal good or vice versa. I kind of thought that was one of the lessons we were supposed to take away from his story.

I was honestly surprised to find out people hated Ginny, simply because she was always a bit on the sidelines. As you put it, I never really cared that much. But the canon love interest usually gets some hate, and considering all the other pairings involving Harry, it makes a bit more sense that way.

I love Luna though, sorry ;)

Just here to say, yay, Makani art!

LOL. I totally misread this- I thought you meant you liked those two as a PAIRING. *facepalm* I was skim-reading, I saw 'particular love for these two'...yeah.

I liked Ginny in CoS, and I wanted more of her after that, because I thought it'd be interesting to see how it affected her. Except she disappeared and was sort of irrelevant. Then HBP came along and she was SO IRRITATING. Gah.

Love Snape, but I'm curious where you hang out! Til I made some friends through HiH, I was pretty much afraid to admit I liked him 'coz I got hated on.

I agree. I like Ginny from what little we've seen of her but she never really had that much of an impact on me overall. I did like Snape's story but his story didn't break my heart in an epic way like it did everyone else in HP fandom.

Also I feel like the only HP fan in existence who could care less about what happened to Dobby.

The only bandwagon I hopped on was Neville's lol.

YES!

I like Ginny, she easily could've been an incredibly interesting character. I'm sad we didn't get to know her better.

(Anonymous) - 2011-07-29 19:11 (UTC) - Expand

Totally agree on the Snape and Cho thing. Seriously never ever got the Luna love, she's just there, doing nothing, barely existing as a character and functioning as comic relief while Cho felt more real.

Love Ginny though!

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