"The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." Moving onto the sixth book in the Harry Potter series you can really start seeing the changes in the maturity of the characters. From the start of the book, we are aware of how much these kids are growing, physically, and emotionally. Harry is still coming to terms with the loss of his godfather and inheriting all of his belongings. On top of that, puberty is taking a factory, the boys both grow afoot, and Hermione tells Harry that girls are noticing him because he's getting better looking. The same goes for Ron many times while he is in the hall's girls walk by and giggle or smile at him.
Then there is Ginny. From the beginning of the series, Ginny is portrayed as Ron's younger sister, who is obsessed with Harry. As she ages, she comes more into her own. She back talks her mother, makes fun of her older brothers' fiancé, hexes other students for being rude, she starts having a very outgoing personality. It could be that J.K. Rowling now had to replace the personalities of Fred and George that they were no longer at Hogwarts. It may also be because the author is setting Ginny and Harry up for a romance.
Having read the books and watched the movie before, I know that Harry and Ginny end up married with children. But when did their attention start drawing towards one another? There may have been some small hints in the last book, but I felt like I discovered the clue in chapter nine of the Half-Blood Prince. Harry is in potions class gets a whiff of a love potion that is supposed to give off the scent of what that person is drawn to. Harry smells a floury smell that he knows he has detected someplace before. He believes he recognized the scent from the Burrow (The Weasley home) then later smells the same scent when Ginny sits with them. I have always been a sucker for a romance story, and finding small clues like this is exciting.
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