takearisk-xo answered:
me, personally? i would probably say nothing? because i typically don’t engage with people who actively dislike something that i like? i have no desire to seek out reddit posts or anti blogs and try to convert people over to my point of view. if someone thinks harry/ginny is boring that’s fine, they’re within their rights to think that. i obviously don’t think that so as long as they respect my point of view then there’s nothing else to say.
however, if someone came to me and was like “why is hinny interesting to you? isn’t teenage sweethearts kind of boring?” i would say that is a very surface level examination of their relationship and a disservice to both of their characters.
like, yes, they are teenage/high school sweethearts but that’s not why i’m interested in them as a dynamic. there are lots of other people out there who have used in-text examples and book quotes to prove that they’re endgame/understand the other perfectly/made for each other/etc.etc. but i think for me the most compelling thing about their relationship isn’t necessarily how they interact together, but their separate journeys when they are apart.
in my opinion (because this is truly honestly an opinion, i am not trying to imply what i am saying is fact or even authorial intent) harry and ginny work because there are quite literally no other characters in the text that are more directly impacted by the antagonist.
like even if you throw quidditch, and sense of humor, and physical attraction out the window. they have SHARED TRAUMA?!?! sign me the fuck up.
they might start out as friends to lovers or teenage sweethearts but they don’t end there. the reason that they last is because when it comes to the bad, they’re is no lack of understanding of what the other person has gone through and is going through. ginny doesn’t understand harry’s tendency to be emotionally guarded by accident or instinct, or even by choice. it’s because she’s been through some shit and she gets it. adversity, betrayal, loss… you can’t explain how trauma and grief changes a person, and their response to conflict, to someone who hasn’t experienced it. and that is so so interesting to me.
also they are set up for some of my fav tropes: second chance romance, power/battle couple, and height difference.