Why I like Ginny! Quotes and more...(long)

[vmonte]

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vmonte: The Sugar Quill has an interesting article on Ginny Weasley. 
The article mentions the scene at the DoM where Ginny is transfixed 
by the egg that transforms into a bird and back. (I've added the link 
and the quote below.) Didn't Ginny also offer Harry some of her 
Easter egg earlier in the year? I wonder if there is something 
symbolically going on here.

"Oh, look!" said Ginny, as they drew nearer, pointing at the very 
heart of the bell jar.

Drifting along in the sparkling current inside was a tiny, jewel-
bright egg. As it rose in the jar, it cracked open and a hummingbird 
emerged, which was carried to the very top of the jar, but as it fell 
on the draught its feathers became bedraggled and damp again, and by 
the time it had been borne back to the bottom of the jar it had been 
enclosed once more in its egg.

"Keep going!" said Harry sharply, because Ginny showed signs of 
wanting to stop and watch the egg's progress back into a bird.

"You dawdled enough by that old arch!" she said crossly, but followed 
him past the bell jar to the only door behind it.

>From 
http://www.sugarquill.net/index.php?action=gringotts&st=ginny2
"As we all know, the Department of Mysteries keeps reserve stocks of 
abstract concepts for research purposes. Not just any abstract 
concepts, in fact, but the mysteries of humankind (Death, Love, Time, 
The Future, The Universe, The Human Brain
). Ginny seems to be 
fascinated with time, for reasons which we can only guess. Would she 
like more time? Does she have an affinity to the concept (unknowingly 
freezing it to get Snitches from under people's noses, perhaps)?"

vmonte: Ron's comments on Ginny's Seeker abilities (OOTP)-

"Yeah," said Ron slowly, savouring the words, "we won. Did you see 
the look on Chang's face when Ginny got the Snitch right out from 
under her nose?"     

vmonte: And at the end of OOTP -

"She's probably cheerful enough with someone else," said Harry 
shrugging. 

"Who's she with now anyway?" Ron asked Hermione, but it was Ginny who 
answered. 

"Michael Corner," she said. 

"Michael - but -" said Ron, craning around in his seat to stare at 
her. "But you were going out with him!" 

"Not anymore," said Ginny resolutely. "He didn't like Gryffindor 
beating Ravenclaw at Quidditch and got really sulky, so I ditched him 
and he ran off to comfort Cho instead." She scratched her nose 
absently with the end of her quill, turned The Quibbler upside down 
and began marking her answers. Ron looked highly delighted. 

"Well, I always thought he was a bit of an idiot," he said, prodding 
his queen forward toward Harry's quivering castle. "Good for you. 
Just choose someone - better - next time." 

He cast Harry an oddly furtive look as he said it. 

"Well, I've chosen Dean Thomas, would you say he's better?" asked 
Ginny vaguely. 

"WHAT?" shouted Ron, upending the chessboard.

vmonte again:
Did you notice what was going on during the chess game? Does the 
Queen chess piece symbolically represent Ginny? (I have previously 
commented that the chess game in SS/PS represents the 2nd Voldemort 
war. In that post I proposed that Ginny was being set-up to play the 
part of the Queen.) Is the quivering Castle Cho Chang?

Other interesting quotes...

Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerer's Stone
"Harry Potter!" she squealed. "Look, Mom! I can see-" 
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"Be quiet, Ginny, and it's rude to point." 

Chamber of Secrets
On the third landing, a door stood ajar. Harry just caught sight of a 
pair of bright brown eyes staring at him before it closed with a snap.

"Ginny," said Ron. "You don't know how weird it is for her to be this 
shy. She never shuts up normally -"

He and Ron went down to breakfast to find Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and 
Ginny already sitting at the kitchen table. The moment she saw Harry, 
Ginny accidentally knocked her porridge bowl to the floor with a loud 
clatter. Ginny seemed very prone to knocking things over whenever 
Harry entered a room. She dived under the table to retrieve the bowl 
and emerged with her face glowing like the setting sun. Pretending he 
hadn't noticed this, Harry sat down and took the toast Mrs. Weasley 
offered him.
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Staggering slightly under their weight, he managed to make his way 
out of the limelight to the edge of the room, where Ginny was 
standing next to her new cauldron. 

"You have these," Harry mumbled to her, tipping the books into the 
cauldron. "I'll buy my own -" 

"Bet you loved that, didn't you, Potter?" said a voice Harry had no 
trouble recognizing. He straightened up and found himself face-to-
face with Draco Malfoy, who was wearing his usual sneer. 

"Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go into a bookshop 
without making the front page." 

"Leave him alone, he didn't want all that!" said Ginny. It was the 
first time she had spoken in front of Harry. She was glaring at 
Malfoy. 

"Potter, you've got yourself a girlfriend!" drawled Malfoy. Ginny 
went scarlet as Ron and Hermione fought their way over, both 
clutching stacks of Lockhart's books.
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"How did Ginny get like this?" he asked slowly. 

"Well, that's an interesting question," said Riddle pleasantly. "And 
quite a long story. I suppose the real reason Ginny Weasley's like 
this is because she opened her heart and spilled all her secrets to 
an invisible stranger."

"It took a very long time for stupid little Ginny to stop trusting 
her diary," said Riddle. "But she finally became suspicious and tried 
to dispose of it. And that's where you came in, Harry. You found it, 
and I couldn't have been more delighted. Of all the people who could 
have picked it up, it was you, the very person I was most anxious to 
meet...."

Then came a faint moan from the end of the Chamber. Ginny was 
stirring. As Harry hurried toward her, she sat up. Her bemused eyes 
traveled from the huge form of the dead basilisk, over Harry, in his 
blood-soaked robes, then to the diary in his hand. She drew a great, 
shuddering gasp and tears began to pour down her face.

"Harry -- oh, Harry -- I tried to tell you at b-breakfast, but I c-
couldn't say it in front of Percy -- it was me, Harry -- but I -- I s-
swear I d-didn't mean to -- R-Riddle made me, he t-took me over -- 
and - how did you kill that -- that thing? W-where's Riddle? The last 
thing I r-remember is him coming out of the diary --"

"It's all right," said Harry, holding up the diary, and showing Ginny 
the fang hole, "Riddle's finished. Look! Him and the basilisk. C'mon, 
Ginny, let's get out of here --"

"Miss Weasley should go up to the hospital wing right away," 
Dumbledore interrupted in a firm voice. "This has been a terrible 
ordeal for her. There will be no punishment. Older and wiser wizards 
than she have been hoodwinked by Lord Voldemort."
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Prisoner of Azkaban

Ginny, who was huddled in her corner looking nearly as bad as Harry 
felt, gave a small sob; Hermione went over and put a comforting arm 
around her.

"But didn't any of you -- fall off your seats?" said Harry awkwardly.

"No," said Ron, looking anxiously at Harry again. "Ginny was shaking 
like mad, though...." (Encounters with Dementors)
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Order of the Phoenix

'Fine!' shouted Mrs Weasley. 'Fine! Ginny - BED!'

Ginny did not go quietly. They could hear her raging and storming at 
her mother all the way up the stairs, and when she reached the hall 
Mrs Black's ear-splitting shrieks were added to the din."
 
"All been talking about me, have you? Well, I'm getting used to 
it...." 

"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 more nettled. 

"Well, that was a bit stupid of you," said Ginny angrily, "seeing as 
how 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 around. 

"I forgot," he said. 

"Lucky you," said Ginny coolly.
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"Yeah, size is no guarantee of power," said George. "Look at Ginny."
"What d' you mean?" said Harry.
You've never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, 
have you?" [OotP 100 ch6]
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"But," said Ron, following Hermione along a row of quills in copper 
pots. "I thought Ginny fancied Harry!"
Hermione looked at him rather pityingly and shook her head.
"Ginny used to fancy Harry, but she gave up on him months ago. Not 
that she doesn't like you, of course," she added kindly to Harry.... 
[OotP 348 ch16]
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Hermione: "I also think we should have a name," she said brightly, 
her hand still in the air. "It would promote a feeling of team spirit 
and unity, don't you think?
"Can we be called the Anti-Umbridge League?" said Angelina hopefully.
"Or the Ministry of Magic are Morons Group?" suggested Fred. 
"I was thinking," said Hermione, frowning at Fred, "more of a name 
that doesn't tell everyone what we were up to, so we can refer to it 
safely outside meetings."
"The Defense Association?" said Cho. "The D.A. for short, so nobody 
knows what we're talking about?"
"Yeah, the D.A.'s good," said Ginny. "Only let's make it stand for 
Dumbledore's Army because that's the Ministry's worst fear, isn't 
it?" [OotP 392 ch18]
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We were watching their practice. They're going to be slaughtered. 
They're complete rubbish without us." 

"Come on, Ginny's not bad," said George fairly, sitting down next to 
Fred. "Actually, I dunno how she got so good, seeing how we never let 
her play with us...." 

"She's been breaking into your broom shed in the garden since the age 
of six and taking each of your brooms out in turn when you weren't 
looking," said Hermione from behind her tottering pile of Ancient 
Runes books. 

"Oh," said George, looking mildly impressed. "We'll - that'd explain 
it."
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"Okay," she said, her brow furrowed as she continued to pace. "Now, 
we need to keep students away from her office while we force entry, 
or some Slytherin's bound to go and tip her off...." 

"Luna and I can stand at either end of the corridor," said Ginny 
promptly, "and warn people not to go down there because someone's let 
off a load of Garroting Gas." Hermione looked surprised at the 
readiness in which Ginny had come up with this lie. Ginny shrugged 
and said, "Fred and George were planning to do it before they left."

"You can't come down here!" Ginny was calling to the crowd. "No, 
sorry, you're going to have to go round by the swiveling staircase, 
someone's let off Garroting Gas just along here -" 

They could hear people complaining; one surly voice said, "I can't 
see no gas..." 

"That's because it's colourless," said Ginny in a convincingly 
exasperated voice, "but if you want to walk through it, carry on, 
then we'll have your body as proof for the next idiot who didn't 
believe us...."
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'Don't call her a Mudblood!' said Ron and Ginny together, very 
angrily.

'Hem, hem,' said Ginny, in such a good imitation of Professor 
Umbridge that several people looked around in alarm and then laughed.

The thing about growing up with Fred and George,' said Ginny 
thoughtfully, 'is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible 
if you've got enough nerve.'

'Excuse me, but 1 care what happens to Sirius as much as you do!' 
said Ginny, her jaw set so that her resemblance to Fred and George 
was suddenly striking.

'I'm nobody,' said Neville hurriedly.

'No you're not,' said Ginny sharply. 'Neville Longbottom - Luna 
Lovegood. Luna's in my year, but in Ravenclaw.'
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All of them looked a little the worse for wear - there were several 
long scratches running the length of Ginny's cheek, a large purple 
lump was swelling above Neville's right eye, Ron's lip was bleeding 
worse than ever - but all were looking rather pleased with 
themselves. 

"So," said Ron, pushing aside a low-hanging branch and holding out 
Harry's wand, "had any ideas?" 

"How did you get away?" asked Harry in amazement, taking his wand 
from Ron. 

"Couple of Stunners, a Disarming Charm, Neville brought of a really 
nice little Impediment Jinx," said Ron airily, now handing back 
Hermione's wand too. "But Ginny was the best, she got Malfoy - Bat-
Bogey Hex - it was superb, his whole face was covered in the great 
flapping things. Anyway, we saw you heading into the forest out of 
the window and followed. What've you done with Umbridge?"
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"You're too -" Harry began. 

"I'm three years older than you were when you fought You-Know-Who 
over the Sorcerer's Stone," she said fiercely, "and it's because of 
me Malfoy's stuck back in Umbridge's office with giant flying bogeys 
attacking him -" 
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"You don't have to take that tone with me. I was just trying to see 
if I could help." 

"We've got to get out of here," said Harry firmly. "Luna, can you 
help Ginny?" 

"Yes," said Luna, sticking her wand behind her ear for safekeeping, 
putting an arm around Ginny's waist and pulling her up. 

"It's only my ankle, I can do it myself!" said Ginny impatiently, but 
the next moment she had collapsed sideways and grabbed Luna for 
support.
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Vivian