Ginny/possession

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 152198

> 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.


Alla:

Okay, midnight here, so I am going to post briefly before I go to 
bed. 

How do you figure that the fact that Ginny remembered SOME things 
equals her not being possessed at all?

Isn't Riddle just easing his grip on her when diary was not with her 
equally possible?

In any event, we  are definitely not going to agree on Ginny being 
possessed all the 
time or not, but won't you at least agree that Ginny was WEAKENED 
significantly by her struggles  with Riddle at the rime she was 
possessed. I mean, I am having trouble to imagine a scenario for at 
least part of Riddle not being in her head all the time, but for the 
sake of the argument  let's say that I do.

Woudn't you agree that Ginny was at least emotionally ill, tired , 
upset in the brief period of time that she was not possessed and not 
in the good state of mind to make any rational decisions?

As to being warned about enchanted books, well, sure, she was. THAT 
is the part where eleven year old girl made a mistake, which was her 
own.

She forgot to be careful about the books who keep their brains in 
the unknown location. She was so desperate for a friend that she did 
not check where the diary's brains are and carelessly trusted it.

That makes her an attempted killer just as Draco was?

Alla,

still scratching her head over Ginny being more liable than Draco.