Hello, my name is Brianna. I am fairly new to the hinny fandom. I never took the couple too seriously in the books, since they only had a few scenes, and just thought J.K. Rowling needed to put Harry with someone. I started ASC about a month ago, for the Sirius and Remus raising Harry content, but now that Iāve caught up and Iāve seen your Hinny, I see them completely differently. I went back and read the last two HP books, and Iām a little confused how so many people are diehard shippers of this couple who is barely seen together. Ginny is such a small character in the books and we barely know her, and her scenes with Harry are short and infrequent. So can I ask you what made you fall so in love with them? Everyone who ships Hinny has told me they think the two of them are just so different than all the other HP couples and so unique. I just found out that J.K. Rowling herself called them soulmates. Iāve never heard her speak so highly of any of her couples. She has said iffy things on Remus and Tonks, James and Lily, and even said putting Ron and Hermione together was a mistake and she doesnāt think it would work out. Yet she states Harry and Ginny are āremarkableā together and are āsoulmates.ā It just completely shocks me because they barely exist outside of Harryās own thoughts and a few heated snogs. So can you, or someone, explain to me why theyāre so special. Is it the fact that theyāre friends as much as they are lovers? Is it the quidditch bond? The whole ābeen possessed by Voldemortā thing? I mean I can see all that, but none of that is shown much in the books besides the quidditch bond. Iām not asking what makes their relationship a good one, Iām asking what makes it so much deeper and more remarkable than all the other couples in HP/ASC. Because if thereās this many people who love them this much, and the author herself basically said their relationship is stronger and more passionate than her other pairings, there is definitely something Iām not seeing. Because from what I can see in the books, theyāre just like any other standard couple. She has a crush on the famous boy whoās her brothers best friend, he didnāt like her back. Then she got hot, and she was funny and heād known her for a while, so he now thinks heās in love with her. Then everyone marries their hogwarts sweetheart. Iām just not seeing anything that makes them so great of a couple.
Can someone explain to me?
Hi, Brianna!
First of all, welcome to the Hinny fandom! We are awesome because we love Hinny, who are awesome and perfect and so in love!
Thank you for starting my story of A Second Chance about Sirius and Remus raising Harry. I'm glad that version of Hinny has shown you a different perspective on them as a couple. I did make them a lot closer than in the books and I added a lot of backstory that JKR didn't provide. As to how so many people are such diehard Hinny shippers, I can't tell you why everyone else likes them, but I can tell you why I do and why I've shipped them together since the beginning.
The first time Harry ever sees her is in Philosopher's Stone and it's interesting to me because he's not a very observant person. The things he notices and things he doesn't sometimes makes him seem rather oblivious. Yet the first time he sees Mrs Weasley at the train station, he takes note of Ginny. He takes note of her immediately holding her mother's hand and then when they bid the boys goodbye, Harry actually watches Ginny waving at her brothers until he can no longer see her or Mrs Weasley anymore. In Chamber of Secrets, we're given more of Ginny's character. We learn that Ginny has a bit of a crush on Harry and is very embarrassed. She blushes when he's around and while Harry is embarrassed by this himself, he also again is very observant of her. From her putting her elbow in the butter dish, to asking about her being strange around him. When in the bookstore, he gives all of his books to her without a second thought -- not to Ron, but to Ginny. I think this is an important distinction that he gave them to her and not to his best mate. And here is where we see a bit of her personality coming out when Malfoy comes to taunt Harry, she immediately defends him. In the short weeks she's spent with him, she's realized he's not a celebrity, he's just Harry and he doesn't want the attention. She stands up for him. He's happy when she's sorted into Gryffindor with them. Harry notices she's quiet at school; is observant of Percy forcing a pepper-up potion on her, and when she approaches him and Ron to tell them about the diary, he immediately takes stock of her strange posture, the worry in her eyes, and he knows whatever she has to tell them is more than it seems, but they're interrupted and his attention is drawn elsewhere. Harry doesn't notice things like this about other random students and for someone he doesn't speak much with, it's interesting. To me it's like he was drawn to her in a way he didn't understand. The singing Valentine embarrasses him, but when he finds out its from her, he's more intrigued and confused. But like the butter dish, he doesn't mention it to her. Harry knows better than anyone that being singled out over a thing she might be embarrassed for isn't a good feeling and he doesn't mention it. Then, when Harry and Ron discover she's been taken down into the Chamber by the monster, yes, he has a hero complex and probably would have gone after anyone he knew down there, but his first thought when he sees her lying on the floor is please don't be dead. A boy who has never known affection, is basically touch starved and awkward when one of his best friends (Hermione) hugs or touches him, grabs her hand and begs her not to be dead.
In Prisoner of Azkaban, we don't see as much of Ginny, but it's her he notices after the Dementors attack the train. He takes note of how pale she looks and how horrified by whatever it was she sees and notices that other than himself, she seemed to be affected the most by the Dementors. In the Goblet of Fire, he sees her more around her brothers, sees the mischief in her with the way she laughs and talks with Fred and George. She's excited about the world cup and into the match like the rest of them and when Ron suggests he go to the Yule Ball with her, despite him having a crush on Cho, he immediately notices that she doesn't jump to go with him. She already promised Neville. For a girl that has a school girl crush on the Harry Potter, the fact that she keeps her word is something Harry notices. He doesn't take much in at the Yule Ball. He doesn't want to dance, isn't really his thing, but he notices Ginny dancing with Neville and that Neville steps on her toes.
In Order of the Phoenix, he sees more of that mischief side as she spends time trying to overhear things from the Order. He notices that she sits on his bed and tells him to calm down, tells him off for yelling at everyone. He notices her easy friendship with Tonks, takes note of the sound of her laugh, and that she cheers for his non expulsion even louder than the twins. When the DA starts, it's her suggestion of the name he's immediately drawn to despite fancying Cho who suggests Defence Association (DA). It's her he notices has great form and is powerful with her spells. When Arthur is attacked and he panics, it's Ginny who is the only person to get through to him and he immediately feels guilty for not remembering that this girl was once possessed by Voldemort and could tell him if he had been too. When he's missing Sirius, it's Ginny he tells and she sits there and listens to him without saying a word as they share chocolate in the library. When he has to go to the Ministry to save Sirius, it's her he steps in front of first to protect in the Hall of Prophecy. He notices how she tries to stand on her broken ankle, tries to be strong. And at the end of the book when Ron makes a comment about her dating Corner and she says she's dating Dean now, Harry immediately looks over at her like he's not sure how he feels about it.
In the Half-Blood Prince, you finally get to see him notice her in a romantic way. I think you see the way he has always been drawn to her, but is noticing new things and how worried he is about liking her because Ron is such an important person in his life. He admires her skills at Quidditch and seems to be fascinated by her hair and her laugh. They spend time together at the Burrow and she jokes with him about Bill and Fleur and makes him laugh for the first time since Sirius' death. He takes close note of when she's annoyed with Dean, her emotions and her attitude at times in the book where it almost seems out of place. When they finally kiss, it's a buildup we were all waiting for and he actually says that it's the happiest he's ever felt in his life. It's freeing to him because Ginny makes him feel like himself, like the person he's supposed to be without all of the darkness that seems to follow him. He's happy and when he breaks up with her after Dumbledore's death, the change in him is evident. It's her he thinks about about nonstop.
In the Deathly Hallows, he notices her gold dress and the way other people are watching her. He warns Viktor Krum away from her. When she kisses him in her bedroom before they leave, that moment is pivotal in their relationship and if Ron hadn't interrupted them, it makes you wonder what more would have happened or would have been said. He seeks her out on the map, watching her dot wander around Hogwarts gives him comfort. His eyes find her when he arrives at Hogwarts and when she argues with him about fighting, he's exasperated and proud and terrified of losing her more than anyone else. He doesn't ask anyone else to hide or to stay back -- only Ginny. When the battle is over, he looks for her in the Great Hall. She was the last thing he thought of before he went to his death and the last thought on his mind when Voldemort killed him.
It may have seemed like a quick relationship, but if you take all of these little pieces, I think you can see that Harry loved her longer than he realized. He paid attention to her. He took note of what she did when she was around him without realizing it. I think this is why they are soulmates because they were drawn to each other without fully realizing it and when they finally came together, it wasn't just that they made each other happy, it was that they made each other whole.
As I said, I have shipped them since Chamber of Secrets and have been a diehard Hinny fan since 1999 when I first read the books. They belong together and I just can't enjoy a story where they're not.
