User blog comment:Sockstar1/Creddie fans prepare yourselves for iSeddie/@comment-3092491-20110606012342/@comment-3419317-20110608054017

@ Xxcreddier4presidentxx :

You just made me think about ... What else? ... Harry Potter.

As I've said a number of times before, I have been (and always will be) a devoted fan of the Harry/Luna relationship, and there's no denying that I was disappointed that it didn't happen in canon.

The thing is ... Even though it wasn't my first choice, I don't really have a problem with the Harry/Ginny relationship, in and of itself. In fact, I've read quite a few really good, very beautifully written fan fiction stories depicting Harry and Ginny as a couple.

I like the Harry/Ginny relationship just fine ... but I hated the way that J.K. Rowling did it.

Throughout the first five books, Harry showed absolutely no interest, whatsoever, in being anything more than friends with Ginny. He obviously cared about her very much, but there was nothing to indicate that it was in any romantic sense.

That's a particularly important point, because the books were written from Harry's point of view. This isn't like iCarly, where we have to scrutinize the characters' behavior and try to guess what they're thinking and feeling. The Harry Potter books actually told us what Harry was thinking and feeling at any given time ... and there was no buildup for this. At all. Harry's feelings for Ginny in Book 6 seemed to come completely out of nowhere.

I was also disappointed because, reading Book 5, I was one of the people who liked the fact that Ginny seemed to have outgrown her crush on Harry and actually managed to snag a couple of boyfriends for herself. She seemed to be coming into her own as a character ... and then, J.K. Rowling pretty much took all of that and threw it right out the window in Book 6.

In my opinion, the Harry/Ginny relationship in Book 6 was definitely not J.K. Rowling's best work.

I agree with this point ... Whether it's because of how the relationship came about, or the relationship itself ... The writer can (and should) do whatever he/she feels is best ... But we don't have to like it. :/