CoS: Another thought about the Singing Valentine

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 15922

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned it. I haven't seen it in the month 
and change I've been lurking and perusing; kindly forgive the last  
vestiges of lingering newbiecluelessness if this has been discussed 
already. 

There's a school of thought that Gilderoy *spit* Lockhart sent the 
singing Valentine to Harry.

There's a school of thought that Ginny did it. 

My thought, though is that Riddle did it during one of the periods 
while he was "driving" Ginny and she had no recollection of what she 
was doing.  After all, dear sweet Tom Riddle knew that Ginny was mad 
for Harry. And it's Voldemort's cruelty even at sixteen to mortify 
and humiliate the girl to amuse himself because he's had to endure 
her boring 11 year old girlprattle in order to further his own 
ambitions. 

That also explains why the dwarf was so insistent on Harry *getting* 
said Valentine.  Riddle might've threatened, persuaded, or bribed the 
dwarf in question to make sure Harry's Valentine was read to him, 
especially in front of Ginny and/or a crowd for maximum 
embarrassment.  To my recollection, though other Valentines 
circulated  Hogwarts, none were delivered by *quite* so persistent a 
dwarf as the one that told Harry his eyes are as green as a fresh-
pickled toad.


Indigo
[who finished CoS for the second time during a bout of insomnia last 
night]