Valentines Day (Short)

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 38678

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "aldrea279" <chetah27 at h...> wrote:
> Yeah...I remembered the Lockhart thing right after I posted.  Agh, I 
> wish there were an editing button. *sighs* No more posts late at 
> night.
> 
> I thought it was Ginny Weasely that sent the Valentine?  Didn't she 
> turn all red or something and run away when she saw the way Harry 
> reacted to his card?  Hmm... *decides to actually check this time* 
> Well... Malfoy shouts "I don't think Potter liked your valentine 
> much!" And then she runs off all embarassed.
> 
> 
> "aldrea 279"

Many people (especially H/G shippers) have argued against the supposed 
authorical evidence of that Valentine. The context of the scene is 
that, after the ridicule poem, Harry's bag broke and most things fell 
out - including Riddle's diary. Ginny starts to act strange *after* 
seing the diary, but (in a very JKR sort of way), disguised as if she 
had been embarrased by Harry's reaction. So, it was in fact a clue of 
who was responsible for the vandalic acts, not what it looked like at 
first glance. She stays, freezed, for a while, and -probably without 
listening to the words- unfreezes when someone talks to her (the fact 
taht the lucky one happened to be Draco would be, once again, 
missdirection).

In a less metatext way, another possible argument is that Ginny's 
sensibilities and intelligence would have to be quite low to write such 
a poem, and -even though she's just 11 years old- you'd expect her to 
know a flattering comparison from an insulting one. I defend this 
theory, and offer an alternative author: Lockhart, in his unending plan 
to reduce Harry's fame and thus elevate his own.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf