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Oct. 9th, 2005 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a_t_rainBecause the Remus one was so much fun, and it's probably my last quiet, mostly work-free evening for some weeks:
1) Ginny Weasley has not stolen your boyfriend. Or anybody else's boyfriend, for that matter. As far as I know, the only canon character who is remotely jealous of her is Romilda Vane. Do you identify with Romilda? No? Then shut up.
2) Yes, JKR has said that she's pretty and popular. That does not automatically make her the same sort of person as the pretty and popular girls who were mean to you in high school. Surely you knew some pretty and popular girls who were NOT mean, too? (Hint: They were usually the ones with self-confidence, which meant they didn't feel like they had to run people down all the time to be liked. Ginny has self-confidence in abundance.)
3) If Harry is allowed to mature between Books Five and Six and realize that Luna and Neville are actually the sort of people he WANTS to sit with on the train, surely Ginny is allowed to mature too, and realize that calling Luna "Loony" is wrong. The fact that she tells somebody else not to do it in HBP doesn't make her a two-faced little hypocrite, it means she's GROWN UP. Character development is a good thing.
4) Ain't no such animal as a canon Mary Sue. Well, maybe there could be under very rare circumstances, but only if the author went nuts and suddenly decided to make Parvati Patil defeat Voldemort, or something. A character who does the job that she was written into the story to do is not a Mary Sue, even if she happens to be bright, confident, and female.
5) So you still don't like Ginny. That's fine. Any well-written character is going to have some people who dislike her. But would you please stop making up completely bogus reasons to dislike her, like accusing her of being self-absorbed when she's been POSSESSED AND ALMOST KILLED by an evil Dark Wizard? Or describing her as "telling a grieving nurse to shut it at a funeral" when she says "Shh, listen" after Fawkes starts singing? (I didn't make this up, I swear.)
1) Ginny Weasley has not stolen your boyfriend. Or anybody else's boyfriend, for that matter. As far as I know, the only canon character who is remotely jealous of her is Romilda Vane. Do you identify with Romilda? No? Then shut up.
2) Yes, JKR has said that she's pretty and popular. That does not automatically make her the same sort of person as the pretty and popular girls who were mean to you in high school. Surely you knew some pretty and popular girls who were NOT mean, too? (Hint: They were usually the ones with self-confidence, which meant they didn't feel like they had to run people down all the time to be liked. Ginny has self-confidence in abundance.)
3) If Harry is allowed to mature between Books Five and Six and realize that Luna and Neville are actually the sort of people he WANTS to sit with on the train, surely Ginny is allowed to mature too, and realize that calling Luna "Loony" is wrong. The fact that she tells somebody else not to do it in HBP doesn't make her a two-faced little hypocrite, it means she's GROWN UP. Character development is a good thing.
4) Ain't no such animal as a canon Mary Sue. Well, maybe there could be under very rare circumstances, but only if the author went nuts and suddenly decided to make Parvati Patil defeat Voldemort, or something. A character who does the job that she was written into the story to do is not a Mary Sue, even if she happens to be bright, confident, and female.
5) So you still don't like Ginny. That's fine. Any well-written character is going to have some people who dislike her. But would you please stop making up completely bogus reasons to dislike her, like accusing her of being self-absorbed when she's been POSSESSED AND ALMOST KILLED by an evil Dark Wizard? Or describing her as "telling a grieving nurse to shut it at a funeral" when she says "Shh, listen" after Fawkes starts singing? (I didn't make this up, I swear.)
