Ginny short for what?(was; Potterland sceret code)

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Jeff wrote;
<< 5) Ginny, We KNOW Ginny is not her given name. Virginia is her given
name. That's 4. She's EVIL!

Brandon responded;
 I would like to know where you saw heard that Ginny's given name is
Virginia because I've looked in the lexicon and I can't find it there. >>

Very good point. 

In fact, now i think of it, around the time that JK was hitting school age 
wasn't there a series of fairly popular girl's books with the title 
characters Ginny and Geneva? (Genevra?) They were by the same author as 
Thursday's Child (I've blanked on her name.)

Just because on this side of the pond most Ginnys are Virginias is no reason 
to completely run away with the idea. There are probably a number of names 
which shorten to Ginny, (Genevieve, Gena, even, at a stretch, Gwenivere) but 
the fact that there WAS a popular character named Geneva generally known at 
the time (as well as the fact that that's at least the third Geneva that I've 
run into in British children's literature of the general period) leads me to 
suspect that it may be at least as common a name in Brittan as Virginia is. 
(It does have 3 vowels, however.)

Frankly, by this time, given her hair color, I'm surprised she hasn't been 
redubed Ginger.

(And I've read at least one fanfic where Fred was "Alfred".)

-JOdel