Hello Maxie. I loved this chapter for so many reasons!
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for all of its smallness, could cause a cheek to sting when it slapped, as Percy - who, long ago, had once told her girls could not play Quidditch - would know.
Here Ginny stands feeling fragile in her self betrayal of who and what she really is, and the point of her strength is defined in her small little hand stinging a deserving Percy on the cheek with a slap. I think even if Ginny does learn to be the perfect lady, your brilliant writing will bring our memory of the true Ginny back, lest we forget. Awesome
Just had to put this in cause it was clever:
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She felt like she had stepped out of a burrow, and into the sun, into a land that she found so above and different from her station, that it seemed like an extension of Mary Sue-ism. Only now, there was no one perfect character - there were bunches, like big, purple grapes.
... and, of course, the knowledge that such a man - the Gary Stu kind not because he did not have his faults, but because he was, she was certain, a component of a lifestyle that she could not imagine, or ever fit in [that she didn't want to fit in, because it was simply not her.
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Ginny wondered, then, what would happen if he took offense at this; and realized, rather suddenly, that she did not care. Realized, suddenly, that she did not want to even try to be anyone else, for the sake of a dress or a ball.
Good girl Ginny. Self betrayal isn't well suited for you.
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The last thing on Ginny Weasley’s mind were men, because men bored her. They were, she had decided at one point, all alike. Driven by and towards charms, and not personality.
(On the side here, but, do we ever find out why she doesn't have any interest in Harry anymore?) And as much as she thinks Lord Rostov is a man whom she is disgusted with at the moment, I don't think he bores her.
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But when he walked off, his shoulders were straight, his chin held high as was its wont, his voice more than cold - icy - indifferent -- and Ginny realized, as she stood there, that he was not like other men, that she did not understand him, that she hated the fact that he did not care.
That he was not a nobody, for her.
Hook, line, and sinker!
Great chapter Maxie, and I really do love it as I do the whole story! Much love to you Maxie, and I'll be watching for my e-mail notification for your next post.
