The wording of the Valentine

[Erica <cymru1ca@yahoo.ca>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52647

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gingersnape1966 
<gingersnape1966 at y...>" <gingersnape1966 at y...> wrote:
> If this has been brought up before, I apologize, but it struck me 
as 
> odd.
> 
> If someone was *sending* a Valentine to Harry, be it Ginny or the 
> twins, wouldn't they have written it *to* him?
> 
> "His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad" would have 
been "Your 
> eyes are as green..."  and "His hair is as dark as a blackboard" 
> would be "Your hair..."
> 
> See what I mean?  I have puzzled over this and the best I can come 
up 
> with is that Ginny doodled it on spare parchment and Fred and 
George 
> seized the opportunity to poke some fun without taking the time to 
> change it.  
> 
> Any other thoughts? 


Perhaps it was Tom Riddle flexing/testing his influence on Ginny?   
Ginny was his (Tom Riddles) source of information regarding Harry.  

I also don't think that Ginny's involvement in the Chamber episode 
was about romantic foreshadowing of H/G so much as symbolising 
innocence corrupted/betrayed.  Malfoy Sr. wanted to plant a 'Dark 
Artifact' on a Weasley in order to discredit their father (the 
eventual outcome of his action was for him, I think, just icing on 
the cake) and Ginny was, perhaps, the obvious (innocent/gullible/less 
sophisticated) choice.    

She was responsible (via her trusting Riddle and his subsequent 
possession of her) for getting Hermione attacked and Harry down into 
the Chamber? 

 'Haven't I already told you', said Riddle quietly, 'that killing 
Mudbloods doesn't matter to me anymore.  For many months now my new 
target has been - *you*'
<snip>

'From everything that Ginny told me about you, I knew you would go to 
any lengths to solve the mystery - particularly if one of your best 
friends was attacked'  

Erica