I like that her original view of it all is shaken, where she thought she was above silly stories in the press because of course no one would believe that rubbish.
This is a major theme of GoF, isn't it? That you may flatter yourself that you're aloof from, a spectator to, a messy, morally questionable world, but you find yourself implicated by it, playing its game, when you least expect it. I'm thinking about the whole cheating theme that permeates the book, or Ron's vulnerability to envy and self-inflation, or the way Hermione learns to fight dirty against Rita, or my own riff below on how Harry and Snape bring out something ugly in each other. I think each of the major protagonists discover, in this book, that they're only human, although the insight may remain latent for a while, in some cases.
These, to me, are signs that the Weasleys definitely buy into some very traditional ideas about sex roles and no matter how much Ginny and Hermione may think they're above those kinds of labels, they're not.
Again, this may echo a theme of being stuck in a society that you didn't choose, of being partly determined by it whether you like it or not.
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Re: I like this chapter too.
Date: 2006-01-18 04:20 am (UTC)This is a major theme of GoF, isn't it? That you may flatter yourself that you're aloof from, a spectator to, a messy, morally questionable world, but you find yourself implicated by it, playing its game, when you least expect it. I'm thinking about the whole cheating theme that permeates the book, or Ron's vulnerability to envy and self-inflation, or the way Hermione learns to fight dirty against Rita, or my own riff below on how Harry and Snape bring out something ugly in each other. I think each of the major protagonists discover, in this book, that they're only human, although the insight may remain latent for a while, in some cases.
These, to me, are signs that the Weasleys definitely buy into some very traditional ideas about sex roles and no matter how much Ginny and Hermione may think they're above those kinds of labels, they're not.
Again, this may echo a theme of being stuck in a society that you didn't choose, of being partly determined by it whether you like it or not.