I was horrified when I read it. "How brutal, nasty and wrong!" I thought. Harry was merely embarrassed!
Yeah, I thought it was kind of impressive how well he took that. I was all ready to be outraged at the hypocrisy if he'd railed about it, considering how many times he's beaten up Malfoy (the Quidditch pitch fight in OotP horrified me also. I guess 'Muggle fighting' does seem worse - hexes are a little more removed.), and it certainly took the wind out of my sails.
What harm does it do? All they do is laugh and snog and feel happy.
I guess I feel like they're not great influences on each other. (Of course, this could be extended to a lot of the relationships in the books, so I wouldn't single them out as the unhealthiest or anything.)
Ginny was a much nicer person, imho, in Books one to Five than she was in HBP. And her reaction to the Sectumsempra didn't particularly bode well, imho, considering that apparently one of the things JKR was aiming at was that Ginny is a girl who won't accept bad behaviour from Harry. Harry already has a tendency to rationalise his own behaviour as acceptable, an extra person to encourage him to think of nearly killing someone as 'good' seems the last thing he needs.
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Date: 2006-05-17 11:36 am (UTC)Yeah, I thought it was kind of impressive how well he took that. I was all ready to be outraged at the hypocrisy if he'd railed about it, considering how many times he's beaten up Malfoy (the Quidditch pitch fight in OotP horrified me also. I guess 'Muggle fighting' does seem worse - hexes are a little more removed.), and it certainly took the wind out of my sails.
What harm does it do? All they do is laugh and snog and feel happy.
I guess I feel like they're not great influences on each other. (Of course, this could be extended to a lot of the relationships in the books, so I wouldn't single them out as the unhealthiest or anything.)
Ginny was a much nicer person, imho, in Books one to Five than she was in HBP.
And her reaction to the Sectumsempra didn't particularly bode well, imho, considering that apparently one of the things JKR was aiming at was that Ginny is a girl who won't accept bad behaviour from Harry. Harry already has a tendency to rationalise his own behaviour as acceptable, an extra person to encourage him to think of nearly killing someone as 'good' seems the last thing he needs.