Potterhead. Will defend Ginny Weasley to the death. Harry/Ginny is my OTP, but Ginny is my priority.
The TV series showing book!Ginny and book!Ron is my dream!
Exactly. That’s the part the movies completely flatten.
Ginny doesn’t suddenly become Harry’s love interest. She grows into someone Harry eventually notices. Early on, she’s shy and awkward around him because he’s Harry Potter. By Half-Blood Prince, she’s confident, funny, competitive, popular, and completely comfortable challenging him.
And Harry’s attraction develops alongside that change. He starts noticing things he simply hadn’t noticed before,the way she jokes, her confidence, her talent, the fact that she has a life completely separate from him.
That’s why the book romance works better: Ginny doesn’t spend years waiting for Harry to choose her. Harry eventually realizes the girl he’s been overlooking has become exactly the kind of person he wants beside him.
The movies removed most of Ginny’s personality, then expected us to believe Harry suddenly fell for her. 😭
Fleur is shown from the start as being vain & condescending. Besides, Harry in GoF is angry at her calling him a little boy. Ginny in HBP isn't much older than he was & justifiably hates that Fleur treats her like she's 3 years old, especially given her independent personality.
@canelaslow I get your point but fleur was perfectly nice to them. They just didnt like that she was more feminine then them. And hermione didnt like her extra becoz ron asked her out. Come on they weren’t being very supportive girls
The fact that Harry Potter was going out with Ginny Weasley seemed to interest a great number of people, most of them girls, yet Harry found himself newly and happily impervious to gossip over the next few weeks.
Yup. There's also the time when Harry caught Ginny's eye in OotP about Luna casually explaining to Hermione where she was going for holiday, or them grinning about Lockhart "not having changed much" at St. Mungo's.
idk how much clearer i can make this, but if you have any weird negative sentiment toward ginny, please don’t interact with me lmao. and if i’m talking about ginny, don’t bring up another character for no reason 😭 “ginny was badly portrayed in the movies” “how about-” idgaf
@NunoNeves2504@hjpgmw She doesn't need to. The "Ginny's first year" is directly preceding the comparison. It's specifying the timeframe. Random example: "Emma went through a lot in her first year at uni, I dare say, more than Jack." That doesn't mean that Emma had a worse life overall than Jack.
@NunoNeves2504@hjpgmw I didn't say you did, I was clearly referring to the Ginny-bashing posts by Adhemara7 and others. I was very specific, you moved the goalposts to "underestimating".
@NunoNeves2504@hjpgmw They were specific, they specifically mentioned in the "first year". They never said anything about Ginny having it worse in the series overall. It takes a great deal of disingenuousness to claim that that was what was being said.
@NunoNeves2504@hjpgmw I'm not sure about Sirius as I don't spend time in the Marauders fandom, but comparisons between book/movie Hermione absolutely do happen to a similar scale as with Ginny. People *always* talk about how perfect Hermione is in the movies and how nuanced and flawed she is in books.
@NunoNeves2504@hjpgmw The Ginny fan was very specifically referring to their respective first years. Again, not sure how you can use this as "proof" that Ginny fans are bashing Harry.
@NunoNeves2504@hjpgmw People absolutely do talk about book!Hermione vs. movie!Hermione (and the same for Sirius). The fact that you're denying this speaks volumes. Perhaps spend less time "debating" Ginny fans and then you could see this?
@NunoNeves2504@dvilstrnge Ginny would still have the same personality even if she didn't end up with Harry. And Ginny fans would still enjoy that. You are using hindsight just to avoid the fact that Ginny would still be loved in the fandom if she had ended up with someone else.
@NunoNeves2504@hjpgmw We know that characters are better in the books. So why not comment the same thing on constant memes of Dumbledore "did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire"; of Ron saying "he's got a point", or Hermione stealing standing up to Sirius, instead of only doing it to Ginny fans?
@NunoNeves2504@hjpgmw That is disingenuous at best. The James post you are referring to was literally posted by a Harry stan, which was after a post from the same user that bashed Ginny for the scene where they talk about his possession.
@NunoNeves2504@hjpgmw But there are comments about every character in the books vs movies. Book fans have always talked about movie portrayals of Ron, Hermione, Snape, Dumbledore etc. & how they are so much better in the books. Why is it only a problem for you when Ginny fans talk about her character?