Book 6 Predictions (was: Predictions at Madison Square Garden)

[Kirstini]

No: HPFGUIDX 79976

Sarah:
>> My guess is that Ginny's going to get the axe in the next book or 
two.  Did anyone else notice that the boggart at Grimmauld Place 
never appeared as Ginny, but did appear as all the male Weasleys and 
Harry?  Plus, we've got Mrs. Weasley's fear that not all the Weasleys 
are going to survive the next war.  And Ginny seems to be quite 
deceptive to her family, or at least able to lie and keep 
secrets from them.  <snip>Ginny is going to sneak off somewhere, lie 
to her parents as to where, and get offed.>>

But Ginny (and Arthur, who either you or das Remnant offered up for 
sacrifice - sorry, I've got a bad history of deleting the wrong bits 
of posts, so can't confirm) has already had a potential death kinda 
situation. And, bearing in mind Talisman's recent comments aboutHarry 
saying "I must lie" in PS, is Ginny's ability to lie convincingly 
perhaps being flagged up for some major role, rather than just 
getting her into trouble? Lying (as long as you do it towards some 
noble end) has never been condemned as a punishable action in teh 
Pottersverse. It's not like Jurassic Park, where the cheat, the chain-
smoker, the sexist hunter, and the cowardly lawyer are all dino-food 
(but the capitalist beasty theme park developer gets away with trying 
to elect himself to grace [unlike the book], because he's got little 
grandchildren to worry about). Essentially, JKR creates a very 
plausible reconstruction of 21st C morality, where crimes which would 
formerly have been inscribed upon the sinner's person ("I must not 
tell lies") are tempered through a new morality which judges a person 
only where that person has actively attempted to cause hurt to 
another (yes, I know Harry Crucio'd BL, but he didn't understand the 
mindset "to hurt" properly). Perhaps we all respond so well to it 
because it's pleasurable to view the world as idealistic adolescents 
again?

Kirstini.