SHIP: Holding the Tiger's Tail

[Erica]

No: HPFGUIDX 92983

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tipgardner" <tipgardner at n...> 
wrote:
> 
> > "dumbledore11214"  wrote:
> >  
> > No, on the contrary, I would think that Ginny, who was hit by
> > Voldie in a hardest way, is more capable of understanding what 
Harry
> > went through.
> 
> Tip suddenly thought:
> Ah...yes.  I agree with that idea.  As of now, none of the good
> characters who are heterosexual and female have the direct 
experience
> of suffering at the hand of Riddle or LV as Ginny has.  So, even
> though Ginny hasn't built up the volume of experience with HP that
> Herm. and Ron have, she has a direct line into at least one major
> aspect of HP's psyche.
> 
> Tip

Except that in OotP, this idea of Ginny understanding what Harry goes 
through is appears to come to naught.  Her experience of "possession" 
was nothing like what Harry routinely has experience via his scar.  
And when he does, at the end, come to be "possessed" by the *real* 
Voldemort (as opposed to the shadow of his 16 y/o self) it is nothing 
like the experience that Ginny relates to him.  Also, it's Ginny 
hasn't appeared to have gain any special "knowledge" of Voldemort as 
it's Hermione (never having been possessed) that warns Harry about 
the potential (and later confirmed) trap that Voldemort has set for 
him.   Hermione and Luna do just as much to relieve Harry of his 
anxieties/depressions/angst as does Ginny.

Cheers,
Erica