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diff --git a/faith/what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst b/faith/what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst deleted file mode 100644 index fbef753..0000000 --- a/faith/what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,95 +0,0 @@ -What’s wrong with Ginny? -######################## - -:date: 2019-07-17T23:50:28 -:category: faith -:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, zettelkasten, plot, story - -(my comments on “`The Character Development of Ginny Weasley`_” -by `u/goodlife23`_) - -For me the main idea of everything written (originally, I have -this from an excellent book by Walter Kerr “`How Not to Write -a Play`_”) is that the plot (and character development and many -other things in any literary work) is about a character moving -from point A to point B. That’s all the play (novel, short story) -is about! Why did she move from A to B? What were the obstacles -on the way? How did she overcame them? Actually points A and -B are not so important as the travel between them. - -One of the most horrible sins of any literary work is when in the -first act of a drama the character (let’s say Draco Malfoy or -Severus Snape) is in point A (marked Death Eater believing -honestly in the pureblood ideals), and in the second act he is in -point B (member of the Order of Phoenix fighting pureblood -mentality). Change happened sometime during the intermission. -That’s completely and absolutely wrong! The most important part, -the only part we are interested in, is how he changed. What moved -him to leave the Voldemort’s camp? Was it difficult? What -obstacles he had to overcome? What precious things he had to -sacrifice and leave behind? This is for example problem of most -stories with Severus Snape as the main character. In books we -have rather horrible person persecuting Harry just because he -looks like his dad. Then suddenly in the story he is fair, a bit -hurt by the nasty Dumbledore, smart guy who is the best friend -with Harry without much problems. WHAT? How did they get there? -Why Severus changed his attitude towards Harry? How did Harry -struggle to accept this change? etc. The story in this area -I rather like (“`Becoming Harriet`_” by Teao; another problem is -that amount of smut is so big that it hurts the narrative) is -exactly with this problem. Suddenly without any transition, Snape -is the only professor who was always honest with Harry (WHAT?), -desperately hoping for just treatment for his Slytherins, etc., -and Harry (well, Harriet, it is a gender bending story) accepts -it immediately without any objections (WHAT?). - -The similar thing happened to Ginny in the books. She starts as -a very shy girl with her elbow in the butter dish when seeing -Harry, then she is a damsel in distress (OK, that part is -covered, that’s what CoS is about), a princess saved by her -knight in (not so much) shining armour from a dragon, and then -… she is completely forgotten. Suddenly she shows up two and half -books later as a self-confident sport-loving the most pretty girl -at Hogwarts well prepared to be the girl for Harry (and there is -not much else for her goals in life apparently). We are told, -that Hermione had told her (behind the scenes, we don’t even know -when that conversation happened) to date around to get -a confidence (pretty stupid idea, if I may say so) and she -changes somewhere behind the scenes (aside from one scene when -Harry and Ron found her kissing somebody, we don’t even know -anything about that process). There is a hint to something in my -beloved line ‘“Lucky you,” said Ginny coolly.’, but it has never -been developed into proper substory (which is huge mistake, -IMHO). That’s COMPLETELY WRONG! We are interested in the process -how a girl, who was shy and horribly abused by Tom Riddle -(emotionally, physically, perhaps even otherwise), changes into -the fiery Ginny we all know and love. We don’t know and we are -never told. - -Difference between Luna and Ginny is interesting. The story arch -we are here following is not actually change in Luna herself (she -is mostly the same all time she is present), but the journey is -Harry’s (and ours) discovery who she is. He first thinks (with -everybody else including Hermione) she is just Loony, crazy girl -spitting out nonsense. And gradually he finds out she is actually -rather smart, shockingly honest, and absolutely faithful to her -friends, so he ends to take her to the Slughorn’s party, and she -then follows the group to the Department of Mysteries and -co-leads the Dumbledore Army during DH (another horribly -situation where everything interesting with Ginny happens -somewhere in background). However, given Luna is not the main -heroine of the story (contrary to Ginny, who should be the one), -it is possibly easier to forgive her disappearance in the -background, when she is not needed for the main storyline. - -.. _`The Character Development of Ginny Weasley`: - https://www.reddit.com/r/HarryandGinny/comments/ceiyfj/the_character_development_of_ginny_weasley/ - -.. _`u/goodlife23`: - https://www.reddit.com/user/goodlife23/ - -.. _`How Not to Write a Play`: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Not_to_Write_a_Play - -.. _`Becoming Harriet`: - https://archiveofourown.org/works/4876630 |