I honestly think a lot of the character-arguments in fandom can be put down to "this character resembles X type of person, who I loathe/love." I find spunky bitchiness hot, and therefore like Ginny; I loathe flakey-oh-my-Cosmo-horoscope-says-we're-in-love silliness, and therefore want to smack the Giggly Gryffindor Group.


And I think it's pretty cool that the characters *do* resemble real people, or at least types of real people, enough for us to all do that.