CoS: Another thought about the Singing Valentine

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 15933

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Indigo" <indigo at i...> wrote:
> 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]

I've read it over too, and I get the feeling that Malfoy sent the 
Valentine as a way to embarrass Harry AND Ginny. Earlier in the book, 
Malfoy makes some comment that Harry has a girlfriend, blah blah. And 
it's Malfoy again, who goes on about Harry and Ginny, during the Troll 
scene.

:-)Milz