The Valentine's Card, Starting School and Killing Hermione

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 21001

B wrote: <<<Has it been stated positively anywhere that the Valentine came
from Ginny? It was my initial interpretation that Fred and George sent it.>>>

Heidi: <<<In CoS, Draco says that Ginny sent it, but even *I* don't think he
knows for sure - *he* is guessing, based on her reaction when she saw Harry's
reaction to it.>>>

Adding to this question we would have to ask does Ginny know if she sent the
card? If she spent most of the year under some spell of Tom Riddle's and
forget chunks of what is going on he could have used her crush to send Harry
the card to try and trap him. If so she may well just does not know.

Against it being Fred and George I would have to say that to me they come
across as people who would want to know that others know the jokes were caused
by them. They do their practical jokes to get attention and this is one
occasion where this is not the case.


> Would it have come on my 11th birthday (the 16th of October) and then
> I would wait until September the next year before I went to Hogwarts.
> Or would the letter arrive in the summer just before September. Please
> tell me what you think, this one kept me up last night

Rachel: <<<I think actually it would arrive in the July AFTER your eleventh
birthday.>>>

I would go with the idea that all the letters, at least to those of wizarding
families, which Harry is, would get sent out at the same time. So in mid-July
McGonagall consults the books of people who will be starting in September,
sends owls off to those from the wizarding families and then some arrangement
is made to go and see those of muggle parentage, and Harry who technically
comes into this category.


Madhuri: <<<During the recent 'Who's going to die' thread, I realised that no
one mentioned Hermione dying, or even getting hurt. I understand that she is a
very dear character to us, and is considered almost perfect by many people I
know, but does that make her invincible? Why is it that it's more probably Ron
will die, rather than Hermione? I personally think that Ron dying would be
terribly cliche, not to mention predictable. Why can't Hermione do something
stupid in the course of the series and put herself in danger?>>>

Well the major problem would be a large lack of female characters in major
roles in the books. In my view, for Hermione to die, Ginny, or another girl,
would have to become a lot more important to Harry. And by this I mean in a
friendship sense, someone who is always there for him, and not a romantic
sense. If Ron were to die then it is much easier to see one of the other
existing characters, probably Neville, filling his role towards Harry.



Simon
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