I don't know. On the one hand, of course it's realistic for teenage boys to suddenly crush on hot girls. On the other hand, like aasylva, I'll buy that as long as I don't have to believe it's True Love. Sudden attraction does build up to true love but when both are presented as occuring at the same time (or as identical!) with the argument of adolescent hormones to explain the suddeness, it contradicts itself and falls flat.
The story never communicates how Harry's feelings for Ginny were more profound for the identical ones he once had for Cho - attraction, jealousy towards suitors, awkwardness and the desire to impress, joy when she takes his side, then triumph when he gets her. Ginny would have been the 'truer' love if a friendship had been established between her and Harry first - something lacking in the Cho affair - but the book that sets them up as friends overshadows that relationship with the bond he forms with Luna Lovegood.
It'll always be a bit disturbing the way Ginny has to transform herself to a meaner version of her boyfriend's ex to get him. Now that is perfectly realistic in terms of teenage dynamics. However it is never treated as such. Instead we're expected to take Ginny's behaviour, which goes against every "Don't Change Yourself for a Man" rule in the book, as a necessary ingredient to achieve True Love. *mind boggles*
Re: Avatar. Perhaps the Zutharan was arguing about the fact that Maiko began offscreen? The comic strip on the website should not have been the vehicle to launch that romance. There was a missing bridge showing how the romance progressed from Mai blushing at Zuko when they're itty and a grown Zuko not knowing what to do on a date to easy going Maikouts on ship decks and picnic dates. Even Harry got the Chest Monster of Lovestruckdom. Maiko is rather like H/G that jumps from page 55 where Ginny gives a Harry singing Get Well card that he chucks in irritation to page 56 where Harry has sunshiny days by the lake with said girl. It works for me because I've read the strip but before I did, it just read like M&B trying to shut up Zutharans as quickly as possible.
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Date: 2008-10-03 08:05 pm (UTC)The story never communicates how Harry's feelings for Ginny were more profound for the identical ones he once had for Cho - attraction, jealousy towards suitors, awkwardness and the desire to impress, joy when she takes his side, then triumph when he gets her. Ginny would have been the 'truer' love if a friendship had been established between her and Harry first - something lacking in the Cho affair - but the book that sets them up as friends overshadows that relationship with the bond he forms with Luna Lovegood.
It'll always be a bit disturbing the way Ginny has to transform herself to a meaner version of her boyfriend's ex to get him. Now that is perfectly realistic in terms of teenage dynamics. However it is never treated as such. Instead we're expected to take Ginny's behaviour, which goes against every "Don't Change Yourself for a Man" rule in the book, as a necessary ingredient to achieve True Love. *mind boggles*
Re: Avatar. Perhaps the Zutharan was arguing about the fact that Maiko began offscreen? The comic strip on the website should not have been the vehicle to launch that romance. There was a missing bridge showing how the romance progressed from Mai blushing at Zuko when they're itty and a grown Zuko not knowing what to do on a date to easy going Maikouts on ship decks and picnic dates. Even Harry got the Chest Monster of Lovestruckdom. Maiko is rather like H/G that jumps from page 55 where Ginny gives a Harry singing Get Well card that he chucks in irritation to page 56 where Harry has sunshiny days by the lake with said girl. It works for me because I've read the strip but before I did, it just read like M&B trying to shut up Zutharans as quickly as possible.