Ginevra Weasley???

[edenfalling]

Honestly, Ginevra? Argh.

Right. I will go change my stories at some point, but not just now. Am too busy beating my head against a wall.

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Really, Ginevra? What was she thinking???

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My local network connection is down, so I may not be online for a good while. *sob* Am posting from a library computer with a nasty keyboard (the shift key is practically jammed) and no privacy whatsoever. I hate the feeling that someone might be reading over my shoulder.

Also, while the weather has cooled, it's still raining. We had yet another thunderstorm this afternoon.

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Ginevra???

This is really going to play hell with Secrets. I have a running thing where Tom calls her Virginia instead of Ginny, and now I'm going to have to change all of that to Ginevra.

Which I do not like nearly as much as Virginia. Also, it lacks certain connotations.

But needs must.

Ginevra it is.

Comments

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

Really? People are very used to GoF AUs, and they'd certainly be used to OotP AUs! I don't think there's any need for you to change it.

[edenfalling]

True, but I'm trying to keep "Secrets" as canon-accurate as possible. Which has already resulted in me tweaking substantial plot issues to bring my dream-possession in line with JKR's total-blank-possession. So the name will change.

*thumps head against wall again*

Whose idea was it to make me a perfectionist anyway???

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Ginevra, indeed. But it plays nicely into the Ginny-as-Guinevere theories, since Ginevra is a deriative of Guinevere (so Google told me).

[edenfalling]

*beats head against wall some more*

Repeat to Self: "You do not ship H/G even though you write it, you don't ship H/G even though you write it, you don't ship H/G even though you write it... so stop thinking about interesting thematic links! You are not going to write anything at all serious with that pairing, ever!"

Argh.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

You write H/G?? aack. I can't even read it. It just feels so totally wrong to me. Meh.

[edenfalling]

Yes, I write H/G.

It's a long story. See, I started reading fanfiction by way of some H/Hr stories, and after a while I decided to try some other pairings to see if I really had a pairing preference or if I was just being lazy. This led to me reading some really awful, inbred H/G things and saying, "That is NOT the way teenagers act! Particularly not girls with long-term crushes. I could write better than that."

And so I wrote a story in which Ginny finally worked up the nerve to ask Harry out. And then Ginny wandered into my mind long-term, and I started writing Secrets, and after a while I decided to write what happened on that date. It's not what I'd call great romance, just a little peek into the head of a girl with an unrequited crush who finally gets a chance to do something about it.

But if I actually ship anything -- and it's a very understated shipping, in the "it would be nice if" sense rather than "this is the OTP!!" -- it's H/Hr, H/D, and H/R/Hr. With a tiny bit of Snarry on the side. And I keep an open mind toward most other pairings, so I don't mind H/G in theory. I just really, really dislike a lot of the ways it's been put into practice.