Picking a Valentine nit (was Ginny/Girl Harry, yada, yada)

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 15217

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., morine10 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 3/25/01 9:57:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
editor at t... 
> writes:
> 
> 
> > *ahem* There are those of us out here who still don't think Ginny 
sent
> > the Valentine. I think Lockhart arranged for all of them, down to 
who
> > got them and the smarmy poetry. I think she ran in tears because 
she was
> > under tremendous stress and she *does* hero-worship Harry and now 
he's
> > going to think *she* sent it and hate her! Plus, it was in front 
of all
> > those other people who'll think she sent it, too! Heck, *I'd* run 
out of
> > the room in those circumstances.
> > 
> 
> I'm with you Amanda.  I never thought that Ginny sent that 
valentine.  The 
> valentines are from Lockhart to the students -not from other 
students.  "My 
> friendly card-carrying cupids!"  beamed Lockhart.  "They will be 
delivering 
> your valentines!"  To me this says that the valentines are from him.  
Nowhere 
> does it say you can arrange to have a signing valentine sent to 
another 
> student.  I agree that Ginny is just stressed.  Besides, I refuse to 
believe 
> that she would even think of sending something like that to Harry. 
:) That 
> poem had Lockhart's cheesiness written all over it. 
> 
> ~Mo

Oh!  I hadn't even considered that it wasn't from Ginny!  It would 
make sense, I guess, that Lockhart was sending them to everyone as 
sort of a goofy Valentine's Day lark.

I guess I was thinking about it in terms of my own school experiences, 
where in grade school we made little shoebox mailboxes and everyone 
brought valentines for the other kids, and in highschool they sold 
lolipop messages - you'd write a little message, and the Boy's Pep 
Club would attach it to a lolipop and deliver it it's intended 
recipient during a certain class period.

Still pondering...  now I've got some questions.  Wouldn't Harry  be 
less mortified if all sorts of kids were being accosted by these 
cupids?  And why would Lockhart say 'He's really devine I wish he were 
mine...'?  Is there a H/L ship I don't know about?  And... if Lockhart 
didn't mean students could send them to each other, then why would 
Ginny be embarrassed?  If everyone knew that they were not from other 
students but only silly concoctions of Lockharts, then Draco's 
statement doesn't make any sense, and neither does Ginny's reaction.

kimberly
who's going to have to look back at that bit now and try to re-think 
it.