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Why I can't stand Harry/Ginny
Sep. 6th, 2007 07:44 pmWell I haven't really used my LJ account much so far, but for my first journal entry I thought I'd repost an essay I wrote explaining ten things I cannot stand about the Harry/Ginny ship in Harry Potter, a ship that I utterly despise. This list was originally posted on FictionAlley.org:
( Ten Things I Can't Stand About Harry/Ginny )
If you can't tell from the above essay, I'm a very opinionated and passionate shipper, especially when it comes to Harry Potter, where the only canon ship I like is Snape/Lily, and it's not even quite a canon ship as far as it being mutual (though JK said Lily could have potentially grown romantic feelings for him in time, under different circumstances, and that she loved him dearly as a friend). Otherwise, I hate H/G and R/Hr (though the former more so than the latter), as well as Lupin/Tonks, which is just so random and pointless, not to mention poorly done as well.
My OTP in the Potterverse is H/Hr, though I don't just hate H/G and R/Hr only because they interfere with my OTP--for one thing, see my long essay above for why I dislike H/G independently of my ship. For another, I do like Harry/Luna quite a lot, which obviously interferes with HHr as well! As for my other Harry Potter ships, they are Snape/Lily (as I said), James/Sirius (my only HP slash pair), Neville/Ginny, and Dean/Luna. I used to ship Ron/Luna instead, and while I still like it somewhat, I was converted to Dean/Luna by DH, with it's D/L hints, and b/c they make such a cute, artsy and Bohemian couple, and they both deserve some romance and happiness, especially the way poor Dean was so mistreated in HBP!
( Ten Things I Can't Stand About Harry/Ginny )
If you can't tell from the above essay, I'm a very opinionated and passionate shipper, especially when it comes to Harry Potter, where the only canon ship I like is Snape/Lily, and it's not even quite a canon ship as far as it being mutual (though JK said Lily could have potentially grown romantic feelings for him in time, under different circumstances, and that she loved him dearly as a friend). Otherwise, I hate H/G and R/Hr (though the former more so than the latter), as well as Lupin/Tonks, which is just so random and pointless, not to mention poorly done as well.
My OTP in the Potterverse is H/Hr, though I don't just hate H/G and R/Hr only because they interfere with my OTP--for one thing, see my long essay above for why I dislike H/G independently of my ship. For another, I do like Harry/Luna quite a lot, which obviously interferes with HHr as well! As for my other Harry Potter ships, they are Snape/Lily (as I said), James/Sirius (my only HP slash pair), Neville/Ginny, and Dean/Luna. I used to ship Ron/Luna instead, and while I still like it somewhat, I was converted to Dean/Luna by DH, with it's D/L hints, and b/c they make such a cute, artsy and Bohemian couple, and they both deserve some romance and happiness, especially the way poor Dean was so mistreated in HBP!
