#we can all agree Ginny wasn't explored enough in canon

[awakening5]

So since people are nerving up to ask you stuff, here's something I've wanted to know for awhile. How do you deal with the Hinny slander? Or do you not? I really don't find other Hinny fans anymore because they got so discouraged by The Cursed Child and the idea that Hinny and Romione were a mistake. It just brings me down. Someone did bring up a good point that both Harry and Ginny were kind of shitty to Dean Thomas (Harry got Dean in trouble with Ginny and knew it and didn't care, for example, and Ginny wouldn't listen to Dean explain), but I think that's really JKR's racism through those characters. Anyway, I just wondered because I am losing a little hope here in finding more Hinny mutuals who are active.

omg I love that my asks have gone from 2.5/year to like 4 in a couple days. I don't even care that half of the asks are kind of downers. BRING ON THE INTERACTION!

Okay anon, there's a lot here, so forgive my unorganized response. Harry and Ginny are basically the pair that introduced me to fanfic and the fandom world, so I have a LOT of love for them, both canon and outside of canon. Under the cut is my long mess of an answer.

First, I don't know of much Hinny slander. I know it exists, but I have a pretty curated fandom experience to avoid haters and people purposefully ignoring or skewing the text to paint them in a bad light. But the "shitty to Dean Thomas" thing always cracks me up. Sure, there might be some racial bias from JKR (we definitely wouldn't be surprised at this point) in how it all ended. But you know the in-text reason for them being a little shitty? THEY ARE TEENAGERS.

Ginny didn't break up with Dean because Harry duped her into thinking Dean did something insensitive. If the Felix Felicis Incident hadn't broken them up that night, something else would have been the final straw the next week. Ginny broke up with Dean because she realized she didn't want to date him over weeks and maybe months of time with him. After the honeymoon period of the relationship, she found the feelings didn't run that deep. You know, like MOST relationships at that age. And did she break up with him in a sucky way and accuse him of something that wasn't his fault? Sure. SHE'S 15! I'm sick of people holding this against her character as if she's a grown woman who should know better. She became a grown woman who knows better because of mistakes like this. That's what being a teenager is! Harry was a jealous teenager too, and was sucky too, and he learned from it too!

I also headcanon that Harry confesses what happened that night to Ginny at one point after the war, and it drives them to apologize to Dean. They all laugh about it and go on a double date with Dean and Seamus and have a good time because they've grown up and are happy.

Now, as far as anything JKR has said about the Romione ship and the Hinny ship, I honestly don't really know. From what I understand, quotes are taken way out of context by people to push their own ship agendas (most of which completely ignore who Harry and Ginny are as characters in the actual text to push their ship), so it's not hard to ignore. More importantly, what has JKR done since finishing the series that makes us think her commentary is worth listening to anyway?

I can't speak to Cursed Child because I haven't read it. I don't care to. From what I understand, the Harry and Ginny moments are good though, so I'm not sure why it would be used in an argument against them.

Anon, this was a lot of words that can be summed up with this: People have no real ground to stand on when it comes to bashing Harry and Ginny. Ginny is a wonderful character, and it's so obvious why Harry would fall for her if people cared to read the books without an agenda. Instead, they look for her flaws and act like these flaws mean she isn't right for him while ignoring the flaws of their own beloved. Ignore them. They're dumb and not worth your time or energy. Your fandom experience will be so much better!