SHIP: Ginny Unknowingly Wearing Love Potion

[Pat]

No: HPFGUIDX 137234

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mad_maxime" <mad_maxime at h...> 
wrote:
> ...the perfume only works when Ginny is in/or has been recently    
> in  close proximity...Our first hint that Harry might be         
>  feeling attracted to Ginny is in Chap 7, The Slug Club. He asks  
> Ginny to sit with him on the train and feels a "strange twinge of 
> annoyance" when she tells him she's going to sit with Dean. Now 
>   either Harry is feeling a bit jealous of Dean or this is the    
> first example of Ginny's LP perfume taking effect. The problem is 
> only minutes later, Ginny and Harry are once again in close       
> proximity in Slughorn's train compartment and Harry shows no sign 
> of being 'oddly attracted' to Ginny. In fact, Ginny is surrounded 
> by five boys, and none of them show any signs of giving her any   
> more attention than would be expected. Surely if she were wearing 
> LP perfume we should expect to see some sort of odd behavior from 
> the boys but we don't.

Pat:  The fumes from the most powerful love potion made Harry feel 
content, with no outward signs or actions to show that he was being 
effected, pg 183 US. He sat at the table with it for the rest of the 
class with no unusual behavior.  

Ginny can't be wearing Amortentia, or Harry would be smelling 
treacle tart and his Firebolt, too, so it has to be a weaker love 
potion.  So why couldn't the effects of a weaker potion just make 
Ginny popular with the boys? On page 150, Pansy says "a lot of boys 
like her", and Harry and Ron agree Ginny is too popular for her own 
good. 

Someone else brought up that Harry decided to stop seeing her while 
she was still wearing the flowery scent. I have to say that is the 
biggest glitch in the hypothesis so far.  The only way to get around 
that would be if his concern for Ginny's safety, and his dedication 
to his mission, allowed him to overcome the effect of the potion.  
It wouldn't be a first - he quickly overcame reacting to Veela, and 
could fight Imperious on the first try. I might be dead wrong, but I 
still see it as a viable possibility for a twist.