Ginny's crush - Newfie (was Sirius trouble)

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 20615

Tabouli wrote:

>  I think Colin and Ginny are both selling themselves short in 
Harry's esteem for
>  the same reason: they are preoccupied not with Harry the person, 
but with Harry
>  the famous historical figure.  Just a more romanticised version of 
gawping at
>  his scar, really: all a bit undignified.  Granted, Ginny has also 
experienced
>  the human side of Harry, but the hero-worship came first.

Yeah.  In Ginny's case, she had a whole year to work herself up about 
Famous Harry Potter and the tidbits, not enough to make him ordinary 
but enough to sharpen the fascination, that probably filtered down 
through owls from Ron.  No wonder she was in so deep by the time she 
actually met him properly.

You'd think the subsequent three years of close contact would have a 
cooling effect, though.  I mean to say, of course the better you know 
Harry, the more you love him, but the remote grandeur of Boy Hero has 
to wear off when you share a common room with him, he's spent weeks at 
your house, and you've seen what he looks like first thing in the 
morning.  (I used to live on a coed floor in college, and I think 
studies would show that sharing a hall and a bathroom with the other 
sex has a damping effect on unwanted pregnancy.)

Rebecca wrote:

> Well, yeah.  Heaven knows Sirius might start singing "I's the Bye" 
at any
> moment.

?? I don't get it.  Is this some kind of Newfoundland, the place, 
reference that non-Canadians can only scratch their heads at?

"Newfie" because I picture Sirius as a very large Newfoundland, the 
dog.

"O my America! my new-found-land . . . " (Donne, "To His Dead Sexy 
Animagus Going to Bed")

Amy Z

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