The thing that troubles me most about H/G is that I feel it could have been made to work if this kind of thing had been done - if Ginny had actually lost interest and Harry had to work for her somehow, for example. And, as someone above/below said, if there were some event that had sparked the feeling; I'd also have liked to see their relationship affect the main plotline beyond providing a convenient happy ending. In execution, H/G was made much more boring than it needed to be.
And yeah, because (after CoS) Ginny has pretty much no story, she comes across as being constructed purely for the romance, which reduces the convincingness still further. Wheras, as you said, Zuko and Mai are not perfectly matched and the relationship is pretty clumsy, and the relationship's far more realistic as a result, imo.
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Date: 2008-10-02 11:39 pm (UTC)And yeah, because (after CoS) Ginny has pretty much no story, she comes across as being constructed purely for the romance, which reduces the convincingness still further. Wheras, as you said, Zuko and Mai are not perfectly matched and the relationship is pretty clumsy, and the relationship's far more realistic as a result, imo.