Question re "little hint" in Book 2 of wh at is yet to come

jelly92784 jelly92784 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 10 21:42:00 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 100708

hey everyone, I've been lurking for a long time but now that I'm home 
from school it's time to join the fun!

I've been thinking the past couple days about the singing valentine 
that Harry recieved in Chamber of Secrets and was going to write 
about that and then today I started reading the thread about 
something little playing a huge role and I thought that maybe this 
would be it.

"Eyes as green as a fresh-pickled toad,
Hair as dark as a black board,
I wish he were mine, he's really divine,
The hero who conquered the dark lord"
(sorry, might not be exact, don't have my book with me)

Does that really sound like something that Ginny Weasley would 
write?  I don't think it does.  At that point in the story Ginny is 
the only one we've seen that's showed any form of a romantic interest 
in Harry, that coupled with Ginny's aparant embarassment naturally 
leads us to assume that the valentine comes from her, I think that's 
what JKR wanted us to assume.  I don't think that this is what really 
happend though.  For one thing, the embarassment can be easily 
explained after finishing the book by the fact that she saw Harry 
with Riddle's diary, the very one that she'd been pouring her heart 
out to all year, she's worried that it divulged her secrets to 
Harry.  

So the question is, who did send that valentine?  I have a theory. 
What if it was Luna?  'fresh-pickled toads'?  come on, who else is so 
quirky that they would consider this to be appropriate for a love 
poem?  Luna would've been a first year at the time, she most 
likely would've known who Harry is.  I've been re-reading the books, 
just finished COS which is why I was thinking about it to begin 
with.  Once I get to book five I'm going to watch Luna's initial 
reactions to suddenly being around Harry to see if there's any 
evidence of a past, possibly current, crush on him.  

How does this relate to something huge?  Luna/Harry SHIP of course!  
I'm not entirely sure that I personally support such a happening, but 
I wont deny that it's a possiblity and could be truly entertaining.

Sorry if it got a bit long!

Janelle





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