[HPforGrownups] Luna and the Trio (Re: FINALLY someone else notices...)

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 82551

Iggy:
> While Hermione has the intellect, Ginny probably has more innate common
> sense than the entire Trio put together.
>
> (A good example of this is when she forces Harry to talk about his 
> worries
> that he's being possessed, and lets him know how stupid he's being for 
> not
> coming to talk to her... someone who's actually BEEN possessed.)
>

Okie dokie, kids.  This common misperception has just about driven me 
'round the bend.  (I don't mean to pick on you, Iggy, sorry.)  Ginny 
did *not* force Harry to do anything.  Ginny (and the rest of the 
Weasleys) let Harry sulk in his room for two days, letting him think 
that he was going evil/crazy and that they were all scared of him 
(which I think they sort of were, actually).  It was *Hermione* who, 
not more than a half a minute after she arrived a number 12 (there were 
still snowflakes in her hair), found out what happened from Ginny and 
Ron, found Harry, dragged him to his "friends", and made them all sort 
it out.

Personally, I was quite disappointed in Ron (not so much Ginny, because 
they aren't really that close) for not at least making some *effort* to 
help Harry.  I mean, he *knew* why Harry was upset and they shared a 
*bedroom* for the love of God.  I expected at least an *attempt* on 
Ron's part to get Harry out of his shell.  I know that Ron's not good 
with the "let's talk about our feelings" things, and Harry was 
deliberately trying to avoid him, but he could have at least not 
abandoned Harry entirely.

On the other hand, it *was* Ron's father that Harry/Nagini tried to 
murder....maybe he didn't know how he felt about it all?  Again, I 
think Ron and Ginny *were* a little frightened of Harry (as he 
thought), if only for the reason that they didn't know what to say or 
do for him.

Also, I'm not even that sure that Ginny's "words of wisdom" on being 
possessed were all that good.  I mean, Quirrell didn't seem to suffer 
from memory loss when V. possessed him.  And Harry didn't either in 
"The Only One He Ever Feared."  Either it's a discrepancy in JKR's 
definition of possession, or they were different types of possession 
all together, and Ginny "Suddenly the Absolute PERFECT Girl for Harry" 
Weasley was wrong, wrong, wrong.  Not that it didn't put Harry's mind 
to rest, though.  I wonder if she wasn't just lying to make him stop 
freaking out.

Laura (who is a bit miffed about Ginny's sudden personality transplant 
in OotP, if you hadn't noticed.)