Re: Hands up, who’s been possessed? (long)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 116321


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" 
<spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:

Dungrollin:
> Lets move on to Ginny.
> 
> In CoS, again, nobody actually uses the 
> words `possessed', `possess', `possession' or
> `possessing'. 
> Riddle says `...I've always been able to charm the people I 
> needed...' 
> Then later: `So I made Ginny write her own farewell on the wall
> and come down here to wait.  She struggled and cried and became 
> *very* boring.  But there isn't much life left in her: she put
> too much into the diary, into me...'
> After the fun, DD says `...how Lord Voldemort managed to enchant 
> Ginny...' 
> And later `Older and wiser wizards than she have been hoodwinked
> by Lord Voldemort.'
> 
> The biggest problem with Ginny's (so-called) possessions, is that 
> she doesn't remember anything about them.  Which has led many to 
> believe that either the possession was of a different nature to 
> those effected by present-day Voldy, or that she wasn't truly 
> possessed.  

Geoff:
However, she believes that she was....

'"We wanted to talk to you, Harry," said Ginny, "but as you've been 
hiding ever since we got back - "
"I didn't want anyone to talk to me," said Harry who was feeling more 
and morenettled.
"Well, that was a bit stupid of you," said Ginny angrily, "seeing as 
you don't know anyone but me who's been possessed by You-Know-Who and 
I can tell you how it feels."
Harry remained quite still as the impact of these words hit him. Then 
he wheeled round.
"I forgot," he said.
"Lucky you," said Ginny coolly.
"I'm sorry," Harry said and he meant it. "So... so, do you think I'm 
being possessed then?"
"Well, can you remember everything you've been doing?"Ginny 
asked. "Are there big blank periods where you don't what you've been 
up to?"
Harry racked his brains.
"No," he said.
"Then You-Know-Who hasn't ever possessed you," said Ginny simply.'

(OOTP "Christmas on the Closed Ward" pp.441-442 UK edition)

A bit more ammunition for your case?

Geoff
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