Bad valentines

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52352

Janet wrote:
> "Lovers, make moan;
> his eyes were green as leeks." (Shakespeare, *A Midsummer 
Night's Dream*)
> 
> Of course, this was in the parody "play within a play."
> 
> Yes, it could have been Draco, but I think it was much more 
likely to have  been the joke-loving Fred and George. It's just their 
style, including the  fresh pickled toads .<<<


Me:
I guess some people see the valentine as Ginny trying to be 
romantic and failing. I see it as trying to be funny and succeeding 
all too well. I don't know about nowadays, but when I was that 
age we sent  gag valentines: 

It's hard to lose a lover
When your heart is full of hope, 
But it's worse to lose a towel
When your eyes are full of soap. 

 Lockhart doesn't announce that they're going to be SINGING 
valentines. He just says the dwarfs are going to deliver them.  My 
thought was that Ginny hoped a gag valentine wouldn't be out of 
place, that Harry would appreciate the joke, that he wouldn't mind 
getting a card if other people were getting them too, and that if 
anybody got teased about it, it would be her.

 It's hard to tell how much of her horror in that scene is due to 
Harry's embarrassment and how much is due to the discovery of 
the diary, but I can't see that her intentions were bad.

 I don't see that it's much different than  our very own Amanda 
presenting Alan Rickman with a copy of "I am the very model of 
an anti-hero archetype." I imagine that if the cast of Private Lives 
started following AR around and singing it, he might decide to 
turn in early too. <g> But that wouldn't be Amanda's fault. 


Pippin