Ginny's crush

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 20661

hi! my name is heidi, and I write sacreligious things! :)

1. I don't see Ginny as crush-lorn over Harry at this point in canon. 
There's been NOTHING in book 4 to indicate that she is mooning over 
harry - she may've been during Book 2, but I do think that things like 
the valentine might've been done because Riddle was pushing her 
towards harry, by playing on the feelings she had anyway but might 
not've acted on and forcing her to do things like send that dwarf to 
recite at Harry's feet.

2. Florence wrote: 
<<Has anyone wondered if perhaps Ginny has had some magical foresight 
that she is destined to be involved with Harry in some way?  This cold 
explain why her crush is more enduring than a normal muggle one.>>>

I think that even if she was, such a crush (i.e. 4 years old, from age 
10ish to age 14ish) is not especially enduring or long lived, but 
maybe that's because I had a crush on the same boy from age 6 to 
16ish, even though I was certainly crushing over (and even dating) 
other boys at the same time. Therefore, I don't see anything in the 
*length of time* thing to indicate any sort of *meant for each other* 
thing.
	2a. If the length of time one has a crush is indicative of 
anything, then Harry's 2ish year long crush on Cho should recieve some 
Deep Spiritual Meaning as well, right?

3. Given Ginny's experiene during CoS with dark-haired, 
looks-like-harry Tom Riddle, if I were her, I would be avoiding the 
dark haired boys like the plague, and go for someone fair like, um, 
NEVILLE or, er, DRACO.