[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Ginny a Parsiltongue?/Ginny&Harry Bond?

[Robin B]

No: HPFGUIDX 33820



  catorman <catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk> wrote: 
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "tex23236" <jbryson at r...> wrote:
> I realize she was underTR's control at the time, but ASFAIK, the 
diary
> was mute, communicating outside itself only by TR's writing.  So how
> was the sink opened for Ginny to get into the tunnel? It seems she 
> would have to have spoken to the sink in Parsiltongue.  TR might 
have
> told ter what to hiss, but could that have given her the ability for
> life, as V seems to have given Harry certain of his powers?
> 
> Tex

IIRC, Ginny didn't know what she was doing when she was under the 
control of Tom Riddle.  If she can paint walls, kill roosters etc. 
without knowing what she is doing then I'm pretty sure that Tom 
Riddle would be able to speak parseltongue through her as well.  She 
was, in a sense, "hypnotised" - total mind control, and we know that 
people do all kinds of things they aren't really normally able to do 
when they are hypnotised.

Catherine

Hi!

This is my first post here, so I apologize if I'm restating anything.

I've been rather interested in Ginny's role in the whole storyline.  It seems to me that JKR is setting her up to be a more important player.  The clues, though, are very subtle.  I know that it has been brought up in other posts about the train platform scene in Book 1.  Someone (and I apologize for not knowing exactly who) mentioned that Ginny and Harry might be paired together because she's the first girl of the wizarding world that he has noticable contact with.  What I found to be intriguing is that Ginny is actually the first Weasley to be named . . . therefore, becoming the first peer to be known by name for Harry.  Yet, she is then left behind in the story for the time being.  She is not brought up again until the very end of this book.

I realize that I seem to be drifting away from the original topic of whether Ginny is a parsilmouth or not, but please put up with my chatter a bit more while I try to get to my views on that subject.  The way I see it, JKR was placing a few things in her readers' minds.  First, that the character of Ginny existed at all.  Secondly, that Ginny has an interest in Harry before she ever gets to meet him.  Granted, it's an infatuation.  Just as many young girls feel now-a-days about Daniel Radcliff.  Over the course of the books 2, 3, and 4, this infatuation appears to be changing into a typical schoolgirl crush.

JKR used Ginny's obvious liking of Harry to cover up many of the signs that would have given her away as the person responsible for opening the chamber.  The most noticable example of this is the singing Valentine.  I'm still not totally convinced that she sent it.  But it works great to make the readers believe that she is embarrassed by the results of the Valentine and not from having seen Harry with TR's diary.

This is something that JKR seems to do alot of.  She presents things in a way that you are led to think the obvious when another possibility is present.  Following this pattern of writing, it seems quite possible that Ginny would now be a parsilmouth.  We, the readers, know that TR used her to kill the roosters and write the messages.  It makes it then possible that he used her voice to open the chamber and control the Basilisk.  Ofcourse, just because of this, why would it mean that she now still has the ability?  Well, TR tells Harry at one point in the chamber that not only did Ginny pour her soul into him, but he poured some of his back into her.  If that's the case, then could there not be some residue of TR's soul still in her.  And as speaking parsilmouth was the thing she would have done the most with his soul part of her, it would be the part that might have stayed with her.  Although, do we even really know that TR's memory is gone?  Where'd it go?  Is it not a bit odd that right after TR disappears, Ginny immediately awakens?

I keep having this sneaky suspicion that the fact that TR's soul had been within Ginny is going to bring her character to the forefront of the story.  Harry seems to have gained a part of Voldemort's powers -- LV would probably like to destroy Harry because of that alone.  If Ginny had part of his soul within her, how would LV react?  Would a combining of Harry's powers somehow with Ginny's lead to LV's defeat?  Or even be a small element in the dark lord's destruction?  We know that Snape was bonded to James because James saved Snape's life; and Pettigrew is bonded to Harry for the same reason.  So, does that not mean that Ginny is bonded to Harry for having saved her life in the Chamber of Secrets?  Wouldn't such a bond combined with Harry's LVish powers and Ginny's TR soul-sharing be something of value in the fight against LV?

Yikes -- I best stop there.  The above are just my opinions and thoughts.  I would like to know what anyone here on the list thinks about any of what I've written.  Just, please be gentle -- I'm already a nervous wreck about posting my thoughts :)

RobinB



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