In the picture on her card, Ginny Potter's hair still shone red, although she no longer wore it down to middle of her back, as she once preferred in her youth. Ginny rather liked the ease of styling her shoulder-length locks. The decision to wear her favorite set of business robes for the photo, the robes she wore on nearly a weekly basis, struck her as a good one.
After a letter arrived containing an offer to be on a Chocolate Frog trading card, Ginny hesitated to accept. A small piece of her still believed she lived in the shadow of her husband, even with her career success. What if her card invariably become about him? This insecurity was not something she felt comfortable sharing with anyone, mainly because she couldn't imagine finding a person who would understand. Hermione never appeared to consider herself eclipsed by Harry. Ron constantly thought himself to be someone's, everyone's, inferior; she didn't need his type of commiseration. And Harry, well, he still shied away from the limelight whenever he could get away with it. He would feel guilty about her confession.
Ginny cultivated a sense of fierceness in herself at such a young age, for a myriad of reasons, and now she no longer had permission to have weaknesses. With no way to explain turning down the opportunity, she agreed to be on the card. She could control how she looked, but she couldn't control what they wrote about her. She felt the tension she hadn't realized she held in her neck and shoulders drain from her body when there was no mention of Harry on the card, her only tie to him evident in the last name they shared.
Instead, the card first focused on her young age when she signed with the Holyhead Harpies - a month before she turned 18. She only played Quidditch for four seasons before retiring to pursue a career in journalism. Her short biography noted her unbiased reporting. Although Ginny travelled the world as The Daily Prophet's senior Quidditch correspondent, she remained a mother first. The same year that finally saw all three of her children off at Hogwarts, with only her and Harry left at home, also saw a promotion for Ginny. She was now an editor at the newspaper.
Ginny straightened her back, and with a sense of pride and an assured smile, she handed the card to Harry for him to read.