Bad Valentines

[Lilac]

No: HPFGUIDX 52354


Richelle:
Personally, I think Draco sent it as a joke.  No, I don't think that he 
is in love with Harry.  Just that he wanted to embarass Harry and 
conveniently enough, since Ginny was handy, this the perfect opportunity to 
not only embarass Harry, but Ginny as well (after that Flourish & 
Blotts thing, you know, he was raring to get at it again).

Also, just thinking practically, I don't have a boyfriend or husband, 
don't plan on getting one, but thinking of the women I know who do, I 
can't think of a one who would lovingly call his eyes as "green as a 
fresh pickled toad."  Green as emeralds, green as the forest in Spring, 
whatever.  But not as a fresh pickled toad!  Or his hair as dark as a 
blackboard.  Dark as the night, etc.  But a blackboard?  How romantic are 
pickled toads and blackboards?

Janet Anderson:

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 (which, as you correctly point out, no one who was 
trying to be romantic would use).

Now Me:

Richelle, I never considered Draco, but it would make a lot of sense seeing as how he was the first to tease Harry about Ginny being his "girlfriend", and maybe he timed it for that perfect moment when Ginny and Draco would be in the hall at the same time.  Interesting theory.

But I think I'm still leaning towards the twins.  I even put out a post http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/45042 with an acronym...

FAT CHANCE AT BALL:  Fred and Twin Concoct Harry’s Abhorrent Note, Causing Everyone’s Attention Towards Blusher As Loving Longingly. 

I agree with Janet.  It just sounds so Gred and Forge to me.  I think it's because of all the reasons Richelle mentioned in the second paragraph I quoted (using "pickled toads" and such as romantic comaparisons, etc).  I wonder if Jo will ever spill the beans about this if it really was someone other than Ginny.

On the note Ginny took to Harry in POA, I've always had the theory that the singing charm didn't work right (for whatever reason), so that's why it came out so shrilly and warbling.  I read in a FF (can't remember which one though) that Ginny recorded Percy singing in the shower for the get-well-card because she thought it was so funny and hoped it would cheer Harry up.  Clever idea, but I'm not sure that's what really happened in the books. 

~Lilac, who thinks ALL the characters are "wild cards" and won't trust a single one of them until the end of book 7...      






 



 

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"What, drop my wand?"

 --Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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