I covered a lot of it during the last time, and earthstar_chan nailed it pretty well, but my biggest beef with book 7 is that Ginny never got a "crowning moment of sheer awesome" like the entire rest of the cast does. We see Neville kick serious ass with the Sword of Gryffindor, Luna is amazing, Molly Weasley goes apeshit on Bellatrix, etc.
However, Ginny's crowning moment of awesome isn't seen - only relayed via 3rd party. We know she, along with Neville and Luna, were the ones who reintroduced Dumbledore's Army and wound up running it underground until she was forced to go into hiding. We know she tried to steal the Sword of Gryffindor, and that definitely isn't the act of a shrinking wallflower.
But, since 95% of the book is shown through Harry's POV, we don't see her being awesome and Rowling never puts Ginny into a place where she could be awesome, be seen being awesome like in books 5 and 6, and have her fully realized as a character. We see that she's jealous of Cho putting the moves on him when she sees Harry for the first time in roughly nine months. Granted, had that been Mike that I hadn't seen and I saw another girl doing the same thing, I'd probably deck her. We get those little flashes of awesome when she defies Harry and goes to fight anyhow and can keep her own, along with Luna and Hermione, with Bellatrix Lestrange. That's no small feat.
One thing that we know from the books is that Harry is an extremely unreliable narrator, and his view colors so much - like how Snape is perceived. But, Harry put Ginny on this pedestal and so we don't see the awesome real things she does because Harry doesn't see them, or chooses not to relay them and it not only diminishes Ginny as a character, but also detracts from the pairing potential.
I think that some time between the last chapter of book 7 and the epilogue that Harry and Ginny went their separate ways for awhile. I just don't see the career Rowling has her lead and being with Harry at that time. It doesn't fit the tone of the epilogue to have that in there, but I can see those two going their own way for a few years then eventually begin dating again.
I really want to get back to working on that one HP fic I started a few years back where Ginny was successful in getting the Sword of Gryffindor and goes on the run. She was pretty awesome in it, and tries to give more insight into her actions leading up to the end of book 6.
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However, Ginny's crowning moment of awesome isn't seen - only relayed via 3rd party. We know she, along with Neville and Luna, were the ones who reintroduced Dumbledore's Army and wound up running it underground until she was forced to go into hiding. We know she tried to steal the Sword of Gryffindor, and that definitely isn't the act of a shrinking wallflower.
But, since 95% of the book is shown through Harry's POV, we don't see her being awesome and Rowling never puts Ginny into a place where she could be awesome, be seen being awesome like in books 5 and 6, and have her fully realized as a character. We see that she's jealous of Cho putting the moves on him when she sees Harry for the first time in roughly nine months. Granted, had that been Mike that I hadn't seen and I saw another girl doing the same thing, I'd probably deck her. We get those little flashes of awesome when she defies Harry and goes to fight anyhow and can keep her own, along with Luna and Hermione, with Bellatrix Lestrange. That's no small feat.
One thing that we know from the books is that Harry is an extremely unreliable narrator, and his view colors so much - like how Snape is perceived. But, Harry put Ginny on this pedestal and so we don't see the awesome real things she does because Harry doesn't see them, or chooses not to relay them and it not only diminishes Ginny as a character, but also detracts from the pairing potential.
I think that some time between the last chapter of book 7 and the epilogue that Harry and Ginny went their separate ways for awhile. I just don't see the career Rowling has her lead and being with Harry at that time. It doesn't fit the tone of the epilogue to have that in there, but I can see those two going their own way for a few years then eventually begin dating again.
I really want to get back to working on that one HP fic I started a few years back where Ginny was successful in getting the Sword of Gryffindor and goes on the run. She was pretty awesome in it, and tries to give more insight into her actions leading up to the end of book 6.