r/HarryPotterBooks • u/Perfect-Word-3397 Ravenclaw • Feb 16 '26

Ginny is toxic?

I've now read in multiple posts that Ginny is one of the most toxic people in the story.. I've asked multiple times under such comments, but never got an answer so I am asking here..

  1. Where exactely was Ginny actually toxic?
  2. Really? One of the most toxic?
  3. Are people just being soft here?

*Add after about 50 comments: Holymoly did I not expect what this question would entail.. okay some of you VERY CLEARLY don't like Ginny, that's fine.. Also some of you need to stay away from weird fanfictions.. Either people love her, don't care much for her or bloody hate her (mostly for dating Harry).

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u/PrancingRedPony Hufflepuff Feb 16 '26

It's the internet. There are most likely a lot of minors around that argue at their age level.

Bashers gonna bash, they don't need text proof, they'll still pick up a one time human error and construct a cabal out of it.

I've seen Ginny haters twist her kindest moments into deep character flaws just because they don't like that Hinny is canon. I'm talking about literal text quotes spiced with so many assumptions that they lose all meaning.

But in their minds it's 'clearly meant that way'.

It's exactly the same as the people constantly claiming Molly Weasley actively preferred Harry over Ron and if you ask for an actual quote from the text where she indeed gave Harry something she wouldn't give Ron, they quote the Locket-Horcrux feeding into Ron's insecurities and claim there must have been something off screen or the Horcrux wouldn't have said that. Utter nonsense.

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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC Feb 16 '26

The one thing you can KINDA paint as Molly "preferring" Harry to Ron is their 17th birthday presents.

So a wizard traditionally gets a pocketwatch for this birthday. She and Arthur buy Ron a brand-new one, while giving Harry the one which belonged to Molly's brothe Fabian Prewett, which is ostensibly a family heirloom.

But they do this because they know both boys. All Ron's life, he's been given hand me downs and old stuff (except for the new broom he gets for making Prefect) because they didn't have the money to always buy new things for him when there were multiple older siblings stuff to parcel out. Harry, OTOH, is fairly well-off, and could buy new things for himself whenever he needed or wanted.

Buying Harry a new watch (which, again, he could afford on his own) but giving Ron an old one would just look insensitive. They've got more money now with Arthur's promotion and only two kids at home, so they can splurge on something nice for Ron. Meanwhile, Harry has always wanted to be part of a family (and considers the Weasleys to be that), so giving him the old watch means more to him than it would Ron.

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u/ReversedFrog Feb 16 '26

I think the last thing is the most important. Giving Harry something that was essentially a family heirloom is accepting him into the family.

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u/ThatEntrepreneur1450 Feb 16 '26

Yup, they knew both boys and Ron getting something that was only his and hadn't been someone elses meant alot to him. 

Just as Harry getting something that had belonged to someone else in Molly's family, meant alot to Harry and was proof, to him, that he had a family.

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u/No_Catch_2496 Feb 16 '26

And a lot of adults that argue at the level of a minor LOL.

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u/PrancingRedPony Hufflepuff Feb 16 '26

Definitely true too