Lockhart's Valentines

[Amy]

No: HPFGUIDX 9291

Amanda wrote:

> Aberforth's Goat wrote:
> 
> > (2) Ginny's bit of epic verse ("His hair is as dark as a 
blackboard / I wish
> > he was mine, he's really divine, / The hero who conquered the Dark 
Lord")
> > also employs the term (and gets more than a good day's work out of 
it). Of
> > course, she was under the influence, but still ... (of evil, I 
mean.)
> 
> I'm sorry, I must have missed this. Was there any stated evidence 
that Ginny
> actually sent this? I thought the dwarves were "seeder" Valentines 
that Lockhart
> sent out, to get people in the mood.

No evidence as such, but she does run off crying when Draco says "I 
don't think Potter liked your Valentine."  She could just be 
embarrassed that he's picked up on her crush, but it seems more likely 
that she really did send it and he somehow found out, or made a lucky 
guess.

It's not very sensitive of Fred and George to keep singing it at him 
then, is it?  I'm not surprised they'd make fun of Harry this way, but 
they might lay off embarrassing Ginny.

I thought the valentine, minus the thuggish dwarf of course, was 
sweet.  No one's ever told *me* my eyes remind them of a fresh pickled 
toad.

Sigh,
Amy Z