Hinny until the very end

I was going to be sassy and just post a picture of the whole series but I do have a bunch of reasons (I’m only going to list a few in no particular order)

1. I think Ginny is the only character we see interact with Harry that has the exact right balance between support and speaking up when he needs a kick in the butt (ex. the whole possession discussion in OOTP)

2. The time she spends with him is some of the only time we see Harry actually forgetting the weight and pressure on him and I think throughout the books we see how hard that is for Harry to find (ex. Harry thinking about their short time together in HBP)

3. Harry is never really someone who wants to explain or belabor things, and the fact that during the break up in HBP and in DH on his birthday, that he knows she understands him as he is, and what he knows he needs to do is really important. It’s related to the support concept I referenced in the first point - Harry is always going to have people coming at him for something (even if he isn’t an auror, his still Harry Potter) and having someone like Ginny who’s just in his corner (HBP confrontation with Hermione) is something really special

4. Even with all the above things, Ginny is tough enough to go toe to toe with him and gets to the point where she stands up to him (DH disagreement before the battle, I think one in OOTP before the ministry battle)

5. In a good way, I think she and Harry have a similar #idgaf attitude about things that don’t matter. With Harry’s guilt complex, it’s important that someone like Ginny is around and not going to make him feel bad about Skeeter, etc

6. She’s unselfish in a way that Harry really needs, which I think is most glaring in OOTP when he’s sad about Sirius and she thinks it’s about Cho, so she tries to encourage him to fix things, even though she at least has some feelings for him

I know there are about a million more reasons and I’m not going to torture you with an even longer explanation. But I really think there are a million little things throughout the books.

Dumbledore confirms that Harry saw the attack through the pov of the perpetrator

He sends two of the portraits off to get help for Arthur, and to make sure that he's found by the right people (given that Dumbledore knows that he's currently in a restricted part of the ministry on Order business)

He sends Fawkes off to monitor Umbridge

All of this happens very quickly. Then Dumbledore uses one of his magical contraptions. It forms an image of a snake out of smoke. Dumbledore says "Naturally, naturally. But in essence divided?" And the snake splits into two, confirming it.

We don't know what this means upon first reading. But like. Dumbledore got a late night visit from Harry Potter, who he already knows is a Horcrux, where Harry's like "hey I just inhabited the body of a different Horcrux and attacked Arthur Weasley" to which Dumbledore takes steps to save Arthur's life and then immediately checks, in front of Harry, "Hey this is Harry Potter and not Voldemort, right? Like, he's a horcrux, and dark magic shenanigans are going on, but there is still an innocent fifteen year old somewhere in all this, right?"

You know that part when Harry learns about how his father treated Snape, the one person he absolutely hated and believed hated him, he didn’t go “Oh you deserved that because of who you are now.”

No. Harry James Potter, who had likely idealized his parents growing up, and had heard nothing but praise from anyone except Snape about his father, looked in disgust. His perfect image of his father was actually shattered. He felt sympathy for what had happened.

He called his dad out on his bullshit basically (as best he could for not being able to actually speak to him). He questioned everything.

-a book written by Neville Longbottom co-authored by Hermione Granger and Molly Weasley, introduction written by Remus Lupin, includes excerpts from the prequel “Harry, calm down.” written by Ginny Weasley.

“You think you’re funny,” she said coldly. “But you’re just an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him alone.” “I know James Potter’s an arrogant toerag,” she said, cutting across Snape. “I don’t need you to tell me that. But Mulciber’s and Avery’s idea of humor is just evil. Evil, Sev. I don’t understand how you can be friends with them.” “What’s she got against werewolves?” said Hermione angrily. “Scared of them, I expect,” said Sirius, smiling at her indignation. “Apparently she loathes part-humans; she campaigned to have merpeople rounded up and tagged last year too. Imagine wasting your time and energy persecuting merpeople when there are little toerags like Kreacher on the loose —”

THIS IS SCREAMING GINNY POTTER YALL

Here are my favorite hinny fic recs

[PART 2 ]

Post-DH

1)A new beginning by @startanewdream Summary: Harry and Ginny in the aftermath of the battle, getting back together and deciding to live. Nine pieces following them through May to September of 1998.

2)Private by @thedistantdusk Summary: But it’s part of the job, Ginny reminds herself. She must sit through six of these interviews per year. She must be generally pleasant and polite. She must represent her team well. And above all else, she must not lose her temper. Right.

3)Out of the Mouths of Babes by The_Clockwork_Monk Chapters: 7/7 Summary: Prompt: “Uncle Ron said something about Harry knocking Ginny up, but I don’t know what he means,” Teddy said.

4)chinwag by gryffindormischief, fightfortherightsofhouseelves Summary: Harry can't resist a challenge when he's presented with one.

5)gone was any trace of you by @annerbhpnnerb Summary: An accident at work left Harry with a mysterious case of amnesia and a wife he couldn’t remember.ever, neither can Ginny, you see.

6)you don't have to stay by Annerb Summary: They still refer to her as ‘Harry Potter’s girl’ sometimes. Eleven-year-old her would be ecstatic. Twenty-one-year-old her is far less enthused.

7)I'm not on drugs, I'm just in love by Annerb Summary: Wherein Ron is an irredeemable sap, Harry isn’t much better, and Bill is so Over It all (but secretly pleased). Or how Ron’s stag do goes the way most things do when Harry Potter is involved—a quick spiral into violence and heartwarming disaster.

8)One Perfect Day by @pottermum Summary: Harry has the most perfect day.

9)Lost in Japan by lostonplatform934 Chapters: 3/3 Summary: Two weeks, six days, three hours and 42 minutes. That was how long it had been since Harry Potter had seen Ginny Weasley. And the lack of Ginny was thoroughly driving Harry mad. But he's a couple hundred miles from Japan, and he's thinking he could fly to her hotel tonight, 'cause he can't get Ginny off his mind.

10)There's The Silver Lining I've Been Looking For (1991 words) by @justalittleconfusing Summary: Harry's 34th birthday carries more significance than another year around the sun. Ginny is on a mission to figure out why he is being so shifty at his birthday dinner at the Burrow.

11)Teething Problems by pottermum Summary: Sisters! Who Needs Them?

12)Drunk in Love by FloreatCastellum Summary: Harry should have known better than to let George Weasley get him drunk.

13)22 by FloreatCastellum Summary: 'I’m older than my parents now. They were 21 when they died.’

14)The Fairground by FloreatCastellum Summary: In which the Weasleys and Potters attend the local funfair and James Sirius Potter hustles for candy floss.

15)new name by @always_hinny Summary: ginny dealing with having a new name

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1)Won A Day In The Life  by pottermum

2)wonderfulness What-it's a word, Ginny said so! by pottermum

3) Miss Butter Elbows by JohnMcHacker

Drabbles , Snippets , series

1)Catch Her Snitch! by pottermum Chapters: 102/? 2)Several Sunlit Days: Ginniversary Bingo by @starlingflight Chapters: 19/19 3)Freshly pickled microfic by @ginnyw-potter Chapters: 28/?

One-shots with variable timeline

1)loml by StarlingFlight Summary: One accronym. Two lives. Nine different meanings. Written for corneliaavenue's TTPD Several Sunlit Daylights challenge.

2)A new beginning by Startanewdream Summary: Harry and Ginny in the aftermath of the battle, getting back together and deciding to live. Nine pieces following them through May to September of 1998.

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2) The Path to Harry by CharmHazel

3) The Path to Ginny  by CharmHazel

AUs

1)Gin Fizz by Startanewdream Chapters: 2/3 Summary: Ginny doesn't want any trouble. Harry is running away from his. So this is your classic one-night stand.

2)The Hook Up by pottermum Chapters: 5/5, Muggle AU Summary: It's been eight months since Ginny broke up with her cheating ex when she received an invitation to his sister's wedding. She accepts for two reasons, to show her ex just what he's missing out on by looking fabulous, and to hook up. And then she met Harry. Muggle AU

3)Do you know how it feels to wish for death every day? by balmiki Chapters: 2/2 Summary: Prompt - Do you know how it feels to wish for death every day? Ginny goes to pick up a drunk Harry ( AU - they didn't date in Hogwarts).

4)Imposter by @ginisbetterthanfirewhiskey Summary: “I’m Harry Potter, nice to meet you.” Ginny closed her eyes and took a deep breath, not believing her ears. If there was one thing Ginny would recognize everywhere, it would be Harry’s voice. That man wasn’t Harry. And he had the audacity to use Harry’s name to woo a girl in hope to bring her home tonight.

5)Señorita by @celtics534 Summary: Before he even knew her name, he felt the fire between them. One look at those brown eyes and he was hooked this red-haired señorita

6)confessions should be better planned by @takeariskao3 Summary: Harry accidentally submits the wrong photo for his digital photography elective… shenanigans ensue… (best read on a phone, but if reading on the computer, the formatting should translate easy enough)

7)Sorry, Wrong Number! by pottermum Chapters: 5/? Summary: Dialling one wrong digit changed Harry Potter's life forever because sometimes, making a mistake can lead to bigger and better things. This is one of them.

Over the last few weeks I got into Harry Potter again and browsed through some posts here on Tumblr; needless to say that lots of them pissed me off big time. I want to list all the arguments against my OTP that I think don’t make too much sense. Sure you are entitled to your own opinion, but man, what’s canon is canon and please refrain from twisting some facts.

It is too predictable / It happened too fast without much build-up

Apparently there are two kinds of anti-Hinny shippers. Some say they don’t ship it because it was way too predictable and it was clear Hinny will be together, the other side of the fandom claims that Hinny happened without much development or without subtle hints. That’s when I wonder: there are the 7 books everyone read; how can people see the same text so differently? I believe we can say lots of things to back up or counter both arguments but there are certain aspects that can’t be ignored.

In my opinion Harry ending up with Hermione would have been a lot more predictable simply because in most love triangle stories the hero gets together with the main girl. Of course Hermione and Harry never had any spark or anything going on between them whatsoever but Rowling could have decided to write the books that way before she even got started. She didn’t though; and I think that makes both Romione and Hinny really unique. It was Ron who got together with the heroine and Harry himself chose someone who is a strong and well-developed character but not that relevant to the plot itself.

I also don’t agree with the other argument; I believe Hinny was always there in a quite subtle way. Since it was really subtle till I would say the 5th (or even 6th) book it’s definitely not predictable but nor does it lacks development. Throughout the story we get to know slowly but surely how much Ginny is exactly the type of woman Harry needs in his life. She is witty, independent, stable and is the only one who is able to pull him out of his occasional bad moods. She knows what it is to be mentally possessed by Voldemort; this is a huge factor that helps them understand each other. All this came to the surface really slowly; I believe Hinny is one of the best developed relationships in the series. The build up until a certain point is really subtle but surely recognizable.

Ginny is just a fangirl

Yes she was a fangirl till her 3rd year or so. She worshiped the “Boy-Who-Lived” and did not see the real Harry. But over the years she definitely grew out of this; she fought for her own happiness and did not wait around. After getting to know him she saw the real Harry and was in love with the boy without the scar. Ginny can keep him grounded, make him feel himself, feel as if he is “just Harry”. I mean… this is the main point of Ginny’s story: having a crush/infatuation –> realizing your happiness depends on you and you alone –> getting over the crush –> actually falling in love for real with the person behind the celebrity mask. If you missed the main aspect of her character then I’m sorry but you need to reread the books.

She does not deserve Harry

Love is not about who deserves who. Love is about feelings; you can’t control who you fall in love with. If Harry loves her and if she makes him happy (we know she does) then why wouldn’t she “deserve” him as you say? Non of them are a trophy; if they are in love they sure as hell should be together and I shall ship them like FedEx. Harry is my favourite character and throughout the series I wished for his happiness. If Ginny makes him happy I will ship them.

Ginny is a mary-sue

While I definitely understand why people would say she is a mary-sue, I don’t think she falls to that category. She is pretty, athletic, witty, independent and popular. Yet I don’t see why being good at things and also being pretty would make anyone a mary-sue? I mean I think that’s pretty much a realistic combination for a girl. She also has flaws that are hard to deal with. She has a terrible temper and is basically a less-obnoxious version of Fred and George; she likes to do pranks and can go over-the-top when she thinks she is only joking. When she is angry she can also say pretty hurtful things to people too.

To be honest I don’t think any of the characters are a mary-sue in the HP series.

Harry fell in love with her because she looks like his mother

This is the anti-hinny argument that makes me the angriest because it makes no sense whatsoever and in my opinion also really offensive. The only thing Ginny and Lily have is common is the red hair but even that one is different. Lily is described as having dark-red hair while Ginny’s is flaming red. How can you even say they look the same just because they both have read hair? I mean it’s the same as saying all Asians look the same just because they have dark-brown/black and straight hair. And even if they would look the same the argument still does not make any sense since Harry didn’t even know his mother. Why would he look for a person he didn’t even know in his potential partner?

Ron, *snickering*: Merlin, Harry. Were you dropped on your head as a child?

Harry: Ha! Bold of you to assume I was held.

Ron: .....

Harry: .....

Hermione: Yes, but if you'd rather I hook up with Mclaggen...

Ron: No, I wouldn't want that

*Harry in back pounding on his trowel as loud as he could*

i finally got around to answering this anon, and i really really really wanted to. even though it’s sloppy, i had fun. <3