Dementors and Harry,; Ginny

[Mary Ann Ortiz]

No: HPFGUIDX 27059


wow!  that was a very good point about Ginny.   hmmm....  maybe it 
was indeed a hint that she was involved in the opening of the 
chamber.  and JKR did hint that Ginny will play a big role in book 
5.  i just hope JKR doesn't kill her off or turn her into a bad girl 
or something.  i mean, she's a sweet girl....

about the dementors and Ginny's reaction, i don't believe she reacted 
that way solely because of Harry.  i think she was also reliving her 
experiences in the Chamber with Tom....


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., lisa palmer <redmond_lisa at y...> wrote:
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> dfrankiswork at n... wrote:
> > In POA, are the Dementors targeting Harry right from the first 
> encounter on the train?
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>  cynthiaanncoe@ wrote: > I also find Lupin's explanations of why 
the dementors seem to be 
> giving Harry a hard time to be a little unconvincing.  Add in 
> Dumbledore's statement to Fudge that the dementors can't be trusted 
> to guard Voldemort's most dangerous supporters, and Dumbledore's 
> general dislike of Dementors, and I think they have it in for Harry.
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> I don't remember it reading this way at all.  Harry was NOT 
specifically targeted at the match or on the train, he was just more 
sensitive to the effects of the Dementors.  Harry's question was why 
they had such an extreme effect on him compared to the others, nobody 
else passed out etc, and he was embarresed because he felt weaker and 
like a wimp.  He did not ask why the went after him..because they 
didn't. They "inhaled" the joy from everybody.  This is why Lupins 
explanation makes perfect sense. Harry had a more painful childhood, 
less joy. 
> 
>  In the scene by the lake, I thought they were simply taking out 
Harry because he was the one trying to fight them, therefore he was 
an accomplice of the escaped prisoner.  I agree it is strange that 
only one had lowered his hood. Perhaps more would have to kill 
Hermione and Sirius had not the second Harry come to the rescue? 
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>  Question: JKR drew attention to Ginny's reaction from the 
dementors too. Harry had asked if anybody else passed out or 
something, and Ron gave a reply that was negative, but mentioned that 
Ginny was also strongly affected too.  So a question is.
was Ginny so 
white-faced because she was scared for Harry..or is she also strongly 
affected by the dementors? Do you think that maybe the dementors 
brought back memories for her (similar to Harry's reaction) from CoS 
when she was controlled by Tom Riddle?
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>  Another Ginny question: Since I am on Ginny, I have another 
question. In CoS Ginny sends Harry a singing telegram on Valentine's 
day.  In it she uses the term "the Dark Lord".  It seems to me that 
the only people who refer to Voldemort as Dark Lord are the bad guys, 
everyone else uses You-Know-Who. This should have been a big hint 
that Ginny was involved in the bad goings-on when I was reading the 
book the first time, but I was laughing too hard to notice. Now 
however, I wonder if this is merely a hint that she was opening the 
chamber of secrets, or is it a hint of more things to come? What is 
everyone's opinion?   
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