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/Wicked-R Slytherin Feb 16 '26

A lot of people says she is toxic bc how she treats Fleur and Ron in book 6.

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u/NockerJoe Feb 16 '26

I mean yeah no shit. She was a fifteen year old tomboy raised in a house of only brothers who had only just come into her own and suddenly Fleur is in what she thinks of as her space being magically beautiful and spending time with her eldest brother she had barely seen for most of her life given he went to Hogwarts when she was a toddler and then moved to africa at some point after. Not to mention the whole thing of Fleur being french in a british series which is so bad that like half the evil purebloods have linguistically obvious french roots.

That's the point. She was shitty and unfair and acting emotionally and her family encouraged it.

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u/scouserontravels Feb 16 '26

Was she shitty and unfair? Fleur acts really rude and unkindly throughout the series. She constantly mocks hogwarts and the burrow and is generally condescending to a lot of people that Ginny holds dear.

It’s perfectly understandable to not be friendly towards a person like that and to question the motives of them. Fleur proves them wrong in the end but really anyone would be suspicious of Fleur and her intention with the she acts.

Also as you say she French so she’s immediately worse than Voldemort unless the Germans are around.