"His eyes are green..."Re: Toad Surveillance

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No: HPFGUIDX 105262

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pcaehill2" <pcaehill2 at s...>
wrote:
> 
> > imamommy wrote:
> > [snip]
> > One "small thing" I thought about form CoS today was the singing
> > Valentine.  The "His eyes are green as a fresh-pickled toad" bit.
 
> We still don't know who sent that message.  We are left to believe 
> it is Ginny, but we are never told so. [snip]
> 
> Pam agrees:
> I was re-reading that valentine message recently, and it hit me as 
> well that it just doesn't sound like Ginny's writing (unless 
> the "dwarf cupids" wrote them themselves?)--BUT, it does sound like 
> something Luna might write!!!

Eleanor speculates:
I was wondering whether Tom Riddle could have written the Valentine. 
I can picture Ginny writing in her diary, "Dear Tom, I want to send
Harry a Valentine but I don't know what to say!" and him replying.  We
know he's good at wordplay (that infamous anagram) and then the rhyme
uses the term "Dark Lord", which only Death Eaters normally use.  I
noticed that when Malfoy accused Ginny of sending the Valentine, she
didn't deny it.  But then she did have other things on her mind.

It would have to have been written a long time in advance, though,
before she threw the diary away.

Eleanor