Ginny & the Platform Scene

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No: HPFGUIDX 33104

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> I said:
> old enough to get away with running on a
> > > railway platform (my mother would have screamed for fear I'd
> > > slip and fall under the wheels),
> 
> Penny:
> > Maybe Molly was screaming, but Harry couldn't hear her.  <g>  I 
> bet she  was shrieking as a matter of fact.  Having seen some of 
> those train  station platforms in England ("mind the gap"), I can 
> say that it took  some nerve for me to get myself onto the train 
> sometimes, let alone  seeing to one or more children.  
> :::shudders::::  So, I bet Molly *was*  screaming.  :--D
> 
> Eureka! Penny, you have   unearthed the Holy Grail of H/G 
> shippers...the long sought evidence of Ginny's heretofore 
> hypothetical independent streak. I salute you :--D
> 
> Pippin

Independent streak?  What do you call writing in a secret diary for
nine months, not to mentioning opening a secret chamber to unleash a
deadly beast?  Independent is keeping this to herself once she
realized what she was doing (she almost told Harry).  

Hmmm, something for H/Gers to ponder on.  What do you take of the fact
that Ginny was going to reveal this huge, huge, *HUGE* secret ("Hey
everyone!  I might be the one petrifying people!") to Harry and Ron? 
Do you think she was doing it purposefully because she thought that
somehow Harry's specialness (ala
Mr-saved-the-world-from-Moldy-Voldy-last-year) could help her, or was
it just a general plea to the nearest person at the time?

Okay, so I got off-topic from my original reply.  I'd say "independent
streak" could more-than-well be defined by the contents of CoS.

-Megan (not really a Ginny fan, but this thread got her thinking)