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Ginny's personality
May. 10th, 2002 12:07 pmIn CoS,Ginny is an affectionate, chatty little girl. She has a crush on Harry, and becomes tongue-tied and clumsy when he's around. Her family are loving and protective of her, as the youngest child and only girl.
As she's a Gryffindor, she must be couragous, and we see her defending Harry to Draco Malfoy in Flourish and Blott's; "Let him alone, he didn't want all that!" [one of her finest moments, IMO]
She is also resiliant;a few weeks after the Chamber of Secrets, she has, outwardly at least, recovered from her ordeal: "Ginny Weasley was perfectly happy again."
I think that, like her mother, Ginny has the impulse to be loving and nurturing. She is sensitive, and intuitive to Harry's feelings about his fame(which is more than Ron, after three years, is!); see the bookshop quote again.
I like to think that her crush on Harry is based on compassion for his hard life and admiration of his achievements; I don't think it's just because he's "famous Harry Potter". True, she doesn't show up well at King's Cross, but she was only ten--cut her some slack!
In Goblet of Fire, Ginny has matured considerably. She's probably still crushing on Harry, but she does a better job of hiding it. She can have a conversation and even joke with him ("We didn't know they were making anything, we thought they just liked the noise." GoF,ch 3 or so). She has become friends with Hermione. This may mean she doesn't have close friends in her own year, possibly due to her first-year trauma. (Would you not be wary of making friends with someone who stangled chickens and unleashed a monster on the school, even while possessed?)
In the Yule Ball episode, we see that she is loyal (doesn't give Hermione away), trustworthy and keeps her promise even when it hurts her. She's sympathetic and kind (tries not to laugh after Ron is turned down by Fleur). We haven't seen evidence of the Weasley temper yet, but I don't think she'd let herself be walked over. She is compliant up to a point, but beyond that she would stand up for herself. She is not afraid of others' ridicule, as she goes to the Ball with Neville. I think she would rather have her own good opinion than that of others.
She seems to be more quiet than she was as a child, but I don't buy the painfully shy fanon stereotype. I see her as friendly but wary. After the Chamber of Secrets, she's not going to trust people easily. At the age of 11/12, to be manipulated and betrayed by someone she trusted is bound to have left emotional scars-deeeply hidden maybe, but there. Before she lets anyone that close to her again, she'll have to work through that betrayal. That's why I don't see H/G happening till post-Hogwarts, or maybe book 7.
Re Quidditch; I don't think she's this amazing Keeper who'll join the team and capture Harry's heart in OotP, she's more likely to be a Chaser or maybe a Seeker, as she's small and therefore fast. Maybe she's not brilliant, but she wouldn't hate the game either. Living in that Quidditch-mad family, she's bound to be able to play.
As she's a Gryffindor, she must be couragous, and we see her defending Harry to Draco Malfoy in Flourish and Blott's; "Let him alone, he didn't want all that!" [one of her finest moments, IMO]
She is also resiliant;a few weeks after the Chamber of Secrets, she has, outwardly at least, recovered from her ordeal: "Ginny Weasley was perfectly happy again."
I think that, like her mother, Ginny has the impulse to be loving and nurturing. She is sensitive, and intuitive to Harry's feelings about his fame(which is more than Ron, after three years, is!); see the bookshop quote again.
I like to think that her crush on Harry is based on compassion for his hard life and admiration of his achievements; I don't think it's just because he's "famous Harry Potter". True, she doesn't show up well at King's Cross, but she was only ten--cut her some slack!
In Goblet of Fire, Ginny has matured considerably. She's probably still crushing on Harry, but she does a better job of hiding it. She can have a conversation and even joke with him ("We didn't know they were making anything, we thought they just liked the noise." GoF,ch 3 or so). She has become friends with Hermione. This may mean she doesn't have close friends in her own year, possibly due to her first-year trauma. (Would you not be wary of making friends with someone who stangled chickens and unleashed a monster on the school, even while possessed?)
In the Yule Ball episode, we see that she is loyal (doesn't give Hermione away), trustworthy and keeps her promise even when it hurts her. She's sympathetic and kind (tries not to laugh after Ron is turned down by Fleur). We haven't seen evidence of the Weasley temper yet, but I don't think she'd let herself be walked over. She is compliant up to a point, but beyond that she would stand up for herself. She is not afraid of others' ridicule, as she goes to the Ball with Neville. I think she would rather have her own good opinion than that of others.
She seems to be more quiet than she was as a child, but I don't buy the painfully shy fanon stereotype. I see her as friendly but wary. After the Chamber of Secrets, she's not going to trust people easily. At the age of 11/12, to be manipulated and betrayed by someone she trusted is bound to have left emotional scars-deeeply hidden maybe, but there. Before she lets anyone that close to her again, she'll have to work through that betrayal. That's why I don't see H/G happening till post-Hogwarts, or maybe book 7.
Re Quidditch; I don't think she's this amazing Keeper who'll join the team and capture Harry's heart in OotP, she's more likely to be a Chaser or maybe a Seeker, as she's small and therefore fast. Maybe she's not brilliant, but she wouldn't hate the game either. Living in that Quidditch-mad family, she's bound to be able to play.
