10 Harry Potter Characters Who Were Screwed Over By The Films

3. Ginny Weasley

Ginny is a fantastic character in the books. In the movies? Not so much. There's a lot to like about a little girl who is in love with Harry Potter, to the point where she can barely speak around him, and then she gets over it. She doesn't spend the book series mooning over him, she just decides to let it go and start to actually live her life at Hogwarts. She's a funny girl (out of all the Weasleys, she's the one who has the most in common with Fred and George), but she also has seemingly limitless supply of steely resolve. Ginny is totally comfortable with her sexuality, at total odds with her much more repressed brother Ron. Her relationship with Harry in the last two books might have felt a little bit rushed, but we can understand why Harry is drawn to her. And then... you've got Ginny of the movies. She's a victim of awkward writing and a performance by an actress who maybe didn't end up as talented as some of the other kids on the set. You see her strength and her affection for Harry, but you only get brief glimpses of her sense of humor and charisma. And can we just talk about the scene where she and Harry are having a sexually charged moment while she... ties his shoe? Why would anyone take time out of an already overstuffed film and invent a scene like that?