Ginny and the entrancing Veil

[dcgmck]

No: HPFGUIDX 107335

 --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rowansjet" 
<rowansjet at y...> 
> > wrote:
> > > However, I was most intrigued by this quote (pg 683, OotP uk 
> > > edition):
> > > 
> > > "...Ginny and Neville were staring, apparently entranced, at 
the 
> > > veil too."
> > > 
> > > What interests me about this quote is that Ginny is affected. 
> [snip]
> 
> > > A member of a Harry Potter Forum I visited, though I cannot 
> > remember 
> > > where or who, postulated that it was because of her near death 
> > > experience at the hands of Tom Riddle. 


dcgmck:

Hypothesis:  Ginny's possession by the young Tom Riddle might well 
have tainted her psyche if not her conscious memory with Riddle's 
witnessing of Moaning Myrtle's death.  Do you think he actually 
witnessed MM's death or just instigated it by setting the basilisk 
loose?  Again, lacking canonical evidence one way or the other...