The Valentine (was Chicken Meat)

[caliburncy at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 23488

This is the second of my set of answers to David's questions.  It 
is shorter than my other and is really just a cute story more than 
anything else.  I am still writing the answers to the questions I am 
most interested in answering in depth which is why I am starting 
instead with the "easier" ones for me to answer (even if, as a result 
of them being easier, the things I say are far less profound).

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., dfrankiswork at n... wrote:
> Finally, to keep the nitpickers happy, who sent the Valentine to 
Harry?  I warn you, I have a loaded draft e-mail and I'm not afraid to 
use it.  This has been discussed, but not got to the bottom of, IMO. 
(And here I *have* searched the entire archive on the word Valentine.)

Okay everyone, time for True Confessions on what I beieve is my only 
and certainly my biggest Harry Potter misread.  When I read through 
CoS the first time, I thought that that Valentine was sent by none 
other than . . . Lockhart.  No, not as a slash thing.  I 
misinterpreted when he said that his (not exact quote) 'card-carrying 
cupids would be delivering YOUR valentines' to mean that he had 
written Valentine's for each and every one of the students.  I don't 
know why, but this seemed like a Lockhart thing to do so I didn't 
think much of it.  I didn't realize that by 'YOUR valentines' he 
didn't mean 'the valentine's I am writing for YOU', but rather 'the 
valentines YOU are writing for EACH OTHER'.  I did, of course, come to 
this realization later and felt quite foolish.  Silly me.

Anyway, ever since I figured that out, I had pondered whether or not 
it really was Ginny who sent the valentine, seeing as how we don't 
have any proof.  But I still don't know.  It could have been anyone 
really if you go solely by evidence.

I would love to see this loaded draft e-mail, David, if you're 
interested in posting it.

-Luke