Ginny ,what we don't know for sure(Was:H/G and other unobvious SHIP alternat

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

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Judy said:
>>>There is no way she could possibly know that Draco Malfoy 
would respond in the way he did or even that he'd be present 
when the valentine was delivered.<<<

Everybody at Hogwarts knows that Draco Malfoy and Harry hate 
each other, and that Draco teases Harry about being famous. 
Draco also keeps up with the Harry news, so even if he wasn't 
there for the valentine, he'd hear about it.

 If Ginny had sent a gushy valentine, Harry would have been 
utterly mortified, and Draco would probably have accused him of 
writing it to himself. As it is, Harry's only mortified until he
hears what the valentine says. Then he's able to laugh about it, 
and even puts up with  hearing "His eyes are as green" more 
than once before he gets tired of it and goes to bed. 


Judy:
>>>The picture JKR gives us is this: Ginny just woke up in the 
Chamber of Secrets having last remembered Riddle coming out 
of the diary. There is a gigantic dead snake with a sword through 
the roof of its mouth lying nearby and a twelve-year-old boy 
drenched in blood Kneeling beside her. IMO the first logicial, 
obvious question --is this blood Harry's or the creature's--(In 
other words--was Harry bitten???) The second obvious 
question--is Harry hurt too badly to leave the chamber (ie. Can 
he stand? Can he walk? Is he poisoned???) 
(In other words--Must I try and go for help or can he make it out 
on his own???) Asking Harry if he is all right would be a VERY 
reasonable, perfectly logical question given the situation. Were 
she demonstrating any of the legendary Gryffindor bravery here, 
she would absolutely need to know, to help assess the situation 
they were in.

<snip>
All we know for sure about her crying and 
crying and crying is what she says. Ginny starts crying not when 
she tells Harry about her being the person responsible for all the 
problems, but after Harry says "Let's get out of here."
CoS, Ch 17: "I'm going to be expelled!" Ginny wept as Harry 
helped her awkwardly to her feet.
<<<<


::puzzled look::

***
Slowly, he gathered together his wand and the Sorting Hat, and, 
with a huge tug, retrieved the glittering sword from the roof of the 
basilisk's mouth. 

There came a faint moan from the end of the Chamber. Ginny 
was stirring. As Harry hurried twoard her, she sat up. Her 
bemused eyes traveled from the huge form of the dead basilisk, 
over Harry, in his blood-soaked robes, then to the diary in his 
hand. She drew a great, shuddering gasp and tears began to 
pour down her face. CoS ch. 17
***

Ginny's in no shape to assess anybody's situation. Her tears 
begin at once. She goes from confusion to emotional collapse. A 
cliche damsel in distress would throw her arms around the hero, 
thank him for saving her, and faint gracefully away. A 
preternaturally cute and spunky Hollywood heroine might ask if 
Harry wasn't a little short for a Death Eater <g> But Ginny is 
neither of these. 

Ginny has her cute and spunky moments. But here she's a   
child who's just been made to suffer terribly. "I made Ginny write 
her own farewell on the wall and come down here to wait. She 
struggled and cried and became *very* boring." Ginny's ordeal 
prefigures Harry's at the Graveyard. 

After the ordeal in GoF, true Gryffindor Harry  lets himself be 
hauled to his feet and taken off by Fake!Moody just as Ginny lets 
Harry lead her from the chamber. He's in such a state of shock 
that he almost forgets he should warn someone there's a Death 
Eater at Hogwarts. (Ginny at least manages to ask where Riddle 
is.) 

Harry doesn't cry and cry. He goes into a period of emotional 
shutdown that lasts more than a week and ends in an eruption 
of uncharacteristic violence. 

I don't know whether Ginny's reaction  is healthier than Harry's, 
but they both seem a realistic attempt to portray a traumatized 
child. 

Pippin