CoS: Another thought about the Singing Valentine

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No: HPFGUIDX 15950

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Milz" <absinthe at m...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > All Ginny had to do was deny it; there's nothing in the book to
> > support anyone else's sending it.  Malfoy just got in a lucky 
guess
> > with the unerring instinct for trouble he has.
> > 
> 
> I don't have my copy with me, but I think it says that Ginny turned 
> red and ran into her classroom

Actually,  Ginny covered her face with her hands and ran into her 
classroom.

I don't have the book with me (I'm at work in the Muggle Mines).

But the diary was also in that scene, and so it could've either been 
embarrassment, or horror that the diary had fallen into the hands of 
the person whose respect and admiration she wants most.