I can't tell when she's lying, or etc. either. Except when it's obvious, as it has been a couple of times (more or less). I do think it isn't her usual personality if someone outside of herself has suggested it. Maybe a direction the character *might* take or she'd be less likely to use it? I didn't take Psychology, and I haven't signed up for it, either.
JKR's writing is good enough to have us defending or sparing no mercy for certain characters as if they were our real friends or foes. Which is pretty good. I haven't defended the Bobbsey Twins like that, and I ate their series for breakfast, lunch and dinner when I was a kid. Now, I've got grandkids and I get completely stunned over Ginny's (to me) OOC behavior. She does come off as obnoxious in the later books. I could put that down to the strain of being the Ginny she thinks Harry wants to see, but that totally negates Rowling's role. She's the Goddess of the piece, the Creatrix. Ginny doesn't do anything at all.
But, that takes all the fun out of it... sometimes. I do like the HP series! And, I suppose, grudgingly, that maybe she's got to do shorthand at some point because the series is supposed to end in one more book and there are bigger fish to fry than Ginny.
Which leaves me with the mental image of Voldemort on a bed of parsley with lemon and tartar sauce.
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Date: 2005-12-16 11:01 am (UTC)I can't tell when she's lying, or etc. either. Except when it's obvious, as it has been a couple of times (more or less). I do think it isn't her usual personality if someone outside of herself has suggested it. Maybe a direction the character *might* take or she'd be less likely to use it? I didn't take Psychology, and I haven't signed up for it, either.
JKR's writing is good enough to have us defending or sparing no mercy for certain characters as if they were our real friends or foes. Which is pretty good. I haven't defended the Bobbsey Twins like that, and I ate their series for breakfast, lunch and dinner when I was a kid. Now, I've got grandkids and I get completely stunned over Ginny's (to me) OOC behavior. She does come off as obnoxious in the later books. I could put that down to the strain of being the Ginny she thinks Harry wants to see, but that totally negates Rowling's role. She's the Goddess of the piece, the Creatrix. Ginny doesn't do anything at all.
But, that takes all the fun out of it... sometimes. I do like the HP series! And, I suppose, grudgingly, that maybe she's got to do shorthand at some point because the series is supposed to end in one more book and there are bigger fish to fry than Ginny.
Which leaves me with the mental image of Voldemort on a bed of parsley with lemon and tartar sauce.