* RelationshipSue: Some fans complained that Rowling made Ginny into one in this entry, even the Harry/Ginny shippers. Some of this may have been DieForOurShip, but that can't account for all of it. She comes across as extremely shy and is revealed to have a crush on Harry in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Book 2]], and turns out to be critical to the plot, with Harry risking his life to save her. However, rather than use this perfect opportunity for a RelationshipUpgrade, she was DemotedToExtra in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Books 3]] and [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire 4]]. She had a larger role in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Book 5]], but was still not plot-critical and more-or-less interchangeable. Then, all of as sudden, in Book 6, with no buildup, she gets a huge role upgrade, is the pretty and popular girl who every guy lusts after, and Harry is madly in love with her and experiencing "chest monsters" when he sees her. While Rowling has insisted that she always intended for Harry and Ginny to end up together, the events in the book suggest she hadn't thought of this until she wrote this book and regretted not using their experience in [[Literatutre/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Book 2]] for a RelationshipUpgrade, and quickly tried to do a RetCon in this book to make up for it.\\\
The intensity of the accusations ''does'' bring up more than one eyebrow raise. Specially considering the terrifying level of hate thrown at both Ginny ("slut", "bitch", "fat whore", "Harry's love slave", "not odd enough unlike Hermione") and BonnieWright ("ugly", "bad actress", "bitch", "uglier than EmmaWatson"). and it's aboslultely NO coincidence that Harry×Hermione shippers are the ones who have the worst part of the Ginny hate, reaching the truly terrifying extreme of '''gunning for Ginny's torture/rape/spaying/death''''. It's especially strange to hear Rowling say Ginny and Harry were supposed to hook up when ''Order of the Phoenix'' showed Ginny was completely over Harry, even pointing out that Ginny is no longer shy and love-stricken like she was before. 
* RomanticPlotTumor
** The Harry×Ginny and Ron×Hermione storylines became the main focus during the second act of the book.
** In-universe, Harry is thoroughly sick of Lavender Brown and Ron's relationship.
** This is even more so in the film.

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* StrangledByTheRedString
** Some of the dislike against Harry and Ginny becoming the OfficialCouple is because of DieForOurShip, while the rest is because of this. They fall in love after having had no meaningful interaction besides Ginny's briefly stated crush on Harry in book two (in which she was eleven, making it look like just a meaningless schoolgirl crush). Not helping are the rather {{Narm}}y descriptions of Harry feeling like he has a "[[UnusualEuphemism chest monster]]" that pops up whenever Ginny's around. To make matters worse, they spend [[UpToEleven even less screen time together]] in the last book. [[spoiler: By the epilogue, they're HappilyMarried]], leaving even those who took no sides in the shipping [[FlatWhat scratching their heads]]. The [[Film/HarryPotter film version tries to avert this by expanding Ginny's screen time, giving her more sequences alone with Harry, and]] [[spoiler: having them not break up at the end]]. However, this still suffers on account of [[CompressedAdaptation how much of the books are left out of the films]]. Even worse is that after their hookup is rushed, the readers ''don't even get to see any of it''. They kiss and become a couple, and there's a jump to a few weeks later, where they're briefly shown together in the Gryffindor common room before Harry has to leave with Dumbledore.
** Of course, Harry and Ginny are nothing compared to Lupin and Tonks. The two were literally ShipsThatPassInTheNight. In ''Half-Blood Prince'', Harry sees Tonks upset several times and thinks it's over Sirius dying. Then the climax reveals that Tonks is deeply in love with and wants to marry Lupin despite the two having no direct interaction whatsoever before that. Except that they were both part of the group that came to get Harry at the beginning of ''Order of the Phoenix'' (not to mention that they're both part of the Order to begin with). They probably talked on the way over to the Dursley's, and it's not like people just stop talking to each other or somehow don't bump into one another when they're part of the same group. And it's not like they're present in the bulk of the story, so unless ''they'' were the viewpoint characters, there's really not much of a way around it seeming rushed and tacked on (which it seemed to be, but Tonks ''was'' only introduced in ''[=OotP=]'').

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