Years Later, Harry Potter Fans Still Demand Justice for This Character — and the Show Can Do It

Summary:

• The Harry Potter movies notoriously neglected some of the books’ best characters due to screen time limitations.
• Ginny Weasley’s entire character was reduced into nothing despite her being a bright and powerful character in the books.
• The HBO show must include Ginny’s best moments so that new generations of fans can see why Harry was so in love with her.

It’s no one’s news that the Harry Potter movies, no matter how great they are in other regards, utterly ruined some of the books’ most amazing characters. Thankfully, HBO is cooking up a full reboot in the form of a TV show, so we can only hope its showrunners will care more about portraying the characters closer to the source material.

Because even years later, Potterheads can’t forgive the movies for butchering the future Mrs. Potter — first and foremost, by presenting her as nothing but the future Mrs. Potter.

Book Ginny Weasley Was Straight-Up Iconic

In the Harry Potter books, we don’t get to learn Ginny Weasley as her own person until The Order of the Phoenix — but when we do, boy is she a delight to be around! Ginny is the picture-perfect strong female character: she’s brave, fun, smart, and independent. And also, she’s an absolute menace to her and Harry’s enemies!

Ginny is a powerful witch who survived duels with the most dangerous foes. Ginny is a capable leader who led the Gryffindor Quidditch team and Dumbledore’s Army alike in Harry’s absence. Ginny is quick with banter and quips and often just as mischievous as her notorious brothers. She’s an athlete, a fighter, and the one person Harry genuinely seeks comfort from — and finds it.

Movie Ginny Weasley Was Terribly Neglected

In the Harry Potter books, Ginny became more important every year, and we saw all the reasons why Harry eventually fell for her. Readers learned to appreciate her long before The Boy Who Lived did, and it only made sense when finally, the two got together. The movies, however, completely neglected her any character and personality.

The notorious shoelace scene was the pinnacle of embarrassment, and it was just as awkward and bland as the movie Ginny herself. This is not an insult to Bonnie Wright: she did the best with the terrible writing she received. But the HBO TV show really can’t afford following in the movie’s footsteps — thankfully, it will have much more screen time to portray Ginny Weasley, and others, the way they should be.

No matter how many years will pass, we’ll never rest in peace until we see the book Ginny shine on the screen. No more shoelaces; only Bat-Bogey Hexes going forward, please.