Beauty /Ghost War/ Chapter 15 discussion - Dark Magic /Fleur/Umbridge/Ginny

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 152195

Catlady:
> As for possession, canon: "Of course, she didn't know what she was
> doing at first. It was very amusing. I wish you could have seen her
> new diary entries ... far more interesting, they became .... Dear
> Tom,"he recited, watching Harry's horrified face, `I think I'm losing
> my memory. There are rooster feathers all over my robes and 1 don't
> know how they got there. Dear Tom, l can't remember what 1 did on the
> night of Halloween, but a cat was attacked and I've got paint all down
> my front. Dear Tom, Percy keeps telling me I'm pale and I'm not
> myself. I think he suspects me... There was another attack today and I
> don't know where I was. Tom, what am I going to do? I think I'm going
> mad... I think I'm the one attacking everyone, Tom!" >>
>

Pippin:
Yes, exactly. Ginny has no memory of what happened while she was
possessed. But she remembered what she was going to say to 
Harry at breakfast the morning she was taken.

 "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 didn't mean to--R-Riddle made me, he t-took me over--"

She didn't attack anyone intentionally, but she eventually figured
out  that Riddle was making her do it. She was not possessed all 
the time, because she remembers trying to tell Harry what was 
going on. She had also been warned about things that think for
themselves, and must have heard the same warnings Ron had
heard about enchanted books. 

I'm not inclined to believe everything Riddle says, but I do believe
Ginny stole the book back of her own will. He didn't *want* her to 
do it, or so he says, and I can't see why he would be lying about that.


Pippin 
realizing that Ginny got her comeuppance in HBP for ratting on
Percy kissing Penelope in CoS