Ginny and the music box-CoS relation? (wasRe: CHAPTER DISCUSSIONS -)

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 86032

Marianne answered the chapter questions rather well, but I am 
snipping all but the one that caught my eye:  
>  
> > 9)  Why is Ginny the only one impervious to the music box's 
> > weakening effects and is able to shut it?
> 
> Maybe she's tone-deaf.

Ginger:
I loved that answer.  It amused me.  

It touches on something I have been wondering since CoS.  What 
happened when Ginny was possessed?  In OoP she says she had periods 
of time where she didn't remember anything.  I think that may have 
been true for most of it.  At the end, though, Riddle said she was 
crying when he made her go into the chamber and wait.  

I got the feeling that she was in a trance like state for most of it, 
and didn't remember.  She did tell Tom via the diary that 
she "thought" she was the one doing it.  At the end, though, she 
seemed to have resisted.  Perhaps it was like the imperious where a 
person can learn to throw it off?  At any rate, I wonder what it felt 
like for her.  If it felt like the imperious, then it would be 
consistant with the feeling of the music box.  

Harry describes the imperious as a "floating sensation" ..."immensly 
relaxed"  (GoF p.231 US) whereas the music box left people 
feeling "curiously weak and sleepy" (OoP p.116 US).  Not exact, but 
close enough that Ginny may have felt a connection and knew it had to 
be broken.

I think there is a lot more to Ginny's possesion, and that this may 
be a clue.  Perhaps she will throw off the imperious at a fortuitous 
moment? 

Ginger, who has really speculated about those missing moments in 
Ginny's life.