You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

There will always be a rivalry because we are talking about two different ships (even if they don't have the characters in common). People will always want to think that theirs is more important as it makes them feel more important. Others like that 12_12_12 obviously thinks Ginny is a bit of a Mary Sue, so that makes them feel more justified in making their OTP more special and important.

You know H/G is my first but I think a lot of people preferred R/Hr because it wasn't as in your face. We read the books though Harry (he was always my fave so his romance was more important to me), however, I don't think some people have grasped that concept. Ron and Hermione had more page time because Harry was with them a hell of a lot more and it took him time to work out what was going on between the two.

Ginny is a different matter. We never saw her side of anything really, except her crush, which even 12 year old Harry could work out. What happened to turn people off Ginny was Harry's about face towards her, suddenly the sun shone out of her arse. Ginny was never all that and a bag of chips (we know that), but what people failed to see was that we were seeing Ginny through Harry's rose coloured glasses. All the other characters opinions never changed but his did. This is what shits me, when people fail to see this.