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

[Barb Roberts]

No: HPFGUIDX 122835


vmonte wrote:

>
>  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...  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.

> From OotP
>  "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... 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
> ...Ginny seems to be  fascinated with time, for reasons which we can 
> only guess.

Very interesting, but is it time that Ginny is interested with?  While 
the egg references could be time, I think that associating it 
fertility,  spring, motherhood or new life makes more sense in the 
context.  While the arch (and veil) that so fascinates Harry,  seems to 
be associates with death or immortality.  For me this is a new thought, 
and it may have relevance for Harry/Ginny ships.

Barbara Roberts



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