Really, any ship needs that spark of “and then sexual attraction ARBITRARILY happened.” Very good point - and I'd like to say that's something I found annoying in quite a lot of Ginny-bashing posts (as much as I dislike the girl myself): the reasoning that it's not o.k. for a boy to fall in love with a girl because of her looks, but he should do so because of her niceness or intelligence or whatever. Intelligence is just as arbitrary a quality as beauty and in neither case does it "make" love, so to speak. It may facilitate the relationship in the long run, but so does beauty sometimes. As for the H/G pairing in canon: I still maintain it is awful writing but not for the lack of deep meaningful conversations between the two. I would have been perfectly o.k. if all there was to it was Ginny being attracted to his star status and him getting off on her long hair. Provided two things: - I was not asked to believe it was anything in the realm of true deep everlasting love (at least for the moment) - the mainly hormon based relationship was presented as such and presented well. H/G did neither. We are told Ginny is Harry's true love and never see it. And the sexual attraction fizzles like a wet fire cracker - and fanfiction is proof you don't need a R rating to do better than that. As for fanfiction - provided the above criteria are met, there is nothing that'd draw me away from reading and enjoying this pairing.
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Very good point - and I'd like to say that's something I found annoying in quite a lot of Ginny-bashing posts (as much as I dislike the girl myself): the reasoning that it's not o.k. for a boy to fall in love with a girl because of her looks, but he should do so because of her niceness or intelligence or whatever. Intelligence is just as arbitrary a quality as beauty and in neither case does it "make" love, so to speak. It may facilitate the relationship in the long run, but so does beauty sometimes.
As for the H/G pairing in canon: I still maintain it is awful writing but not for the lack of deep meaningful conversations between the two. I would have been perfectly o.k. if all there was to it was Ginny being attracted to his star status and him getting off on her long hair. Provided two things:
- I was not asked to believe it was anything in the realm of true deep everlasting love (at least for the moment)
- the mainly hormon based relationship was presented as such and presented well.
H/G did neither. We are told Ginny is Harry's true love and never see it. And the sexual attraction fizzles like a wet fire cracker - and fanfiction is proof you don't need a R rating to do better than that.
As for fanfiction - provided the above criteria are met, there is nothing that'd draw me away from reading and enjoying this pairing.