Anna Daniels
When readers and audiences first meet Ginny, it’s easy to dismiss her as an easily intimidated and highly shy young girl starstruck by Harry, her celebrity crush; it’s for exactly this reason that during Chamber of Secrets, she finds herself embroiled in one of Lord Voldemort’s insidious plans. Realizing that Ginny is weak and easily malleable — especially when it comes to Harry — the ghost of a young Voldemort uses his diary (one of his Horcruxes, meaning it contains a portion of his soul) to control her and help her re-open the school’s dangerous Chamber of Secrets, in which Slytherin’s basilisk of legend resides. Before long, the school is overrun with mysterious attacks, and though Harry figures out what’s happening and helps to clear Ginny’s name, the traumatic experience still lingers for Ginny.
While Ginny still definitely harbors feelings for Harry, she also eventually comes out of her shell when he’s around, and before long, the two are playing Quidditch side by side and getting to know each other better as they near adulthood — including the fact that Ginny, a talented witch, is a particularly skilled dueler. However, Harry finds that he’s developing feelings for Ginny as well, and during both the book and film of Half-Blood Prince (the sixth in the series), they finally start dating. Hunting Voldemort and his Horcruxes puts a temporary pause on their relationship, but Harry survives, and the couple reunites.
In the epilogue for both the film and book versions of the final chapter, The Deathly Hallows, fans meet Ginny and Harry years later as the married couple sends their own children, James and Albus Severus, off to Hogwarts, providing closure for this longtime couple and for their fans.
Written by: Looper
