Saving Ginny (was Re: Lockhart's incompetence)

[mercurybluesmng]

No: HPFGUIDX 143221

> Geoff:
> My concern is, that although there is a certain amount of smug 
> satisfaction in watching Lockhart backpedalling, what were the staff 
> actually proposing to /do/ about Ginny once they'd got him out of the 
> way?
> 
> It seems fairly obvious that they didn't expect him to get very far 
> but then immediately turned their minds to less urgent matters such 
> as keeping the students secure in the dormitories and sending them 
> home on the Hogwarts Express. There seemed to be no thought of trying 
> to reach Ginny....

No, there wasn't. Because:
1) they didn't have a clue where she was
2) they had no idea where to start looking
2.5) they couldn't have gotten to her anyway (not that they knew, or
that it mattered)
3) odds were she was already dead and a search was therefore futile
4) odds were if they tried to find her and stumbled across the
monster, they'd die too
5) they had several hundred more kids at equal risk who had to be
gotten somewhere safer than Hogwarts ASAP

I doubt any of them liked the idea of doing nothing, but it was really
the only choice under the circumstances. Ginny's extraordinarily lucky
that Harry had they had a fair idea where to find the Chamber
entrance, has the ability to get in the damn place, didn't have to
worry about the other students, knew how to stay alive near the
monster, and wasn't so concerned about his own life that he'd not go
looking for his best friend's sister.

MercuryBlue