Ginny/possession

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 152286

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, catherine higgins
<saberbunny at ...> wrote:
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> hickengruendler <hickengruendler at ...> wrote:     But what I cannot
understand is, why she wrote 
> in it again, instead of simply destroying the diary for good this 
> time. IMO, even her youth doesn't explain this.
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> Catherine now:
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>   This was how I read the situation. If you "lost" your diary (I
guess she thought throwing it in the toilet would be permanent) and it
was found, horror of horrors, by the boy you had written in it for
about 1000 pages. Would you not be concerned that he read it? I'm sure
her very first entry to the diary after she stole it was" Tom, you
didn't tell him anything did you? Please tell me! OMG! I'm so
embarassed, did you tell him anything....." Since Tom said that the
more she spilled her secrets and fears into him, the stronger he
became. So he must have been dissappointed, but I also think that he
*really* hooked her back in after she stole it back. She might have
been able to get away from him once, but *not* twice. The second her
ink touched that paper, she was his and there was no turning back
anymore. 
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>   I don't think her intention was to steal the book to use it, but
to steal it to find out what and if he said anything to Harry.
>    
>   Catherine  
> 

Excellent post, Catherine. This is how I always read that particular
time period in COS. Ginny manages to get rid of the Diary, presumably
by flushing it down the loo. Harry finds it. When Ginny finds out that
he has the Diary, she's horrified. Diary!Tom can talk back to her -
what if he tells /Harry/ what she's said about him? She's still shy as
a bug around him, and the thought of him finding out any of her
secrets is worse than any punishment she could receive for breaking
into his dorm room and stealing the Diary back.

She contemplates throwing it away for a few seconds, but she /has/ to
know that Harry didn't read her Diary. She can't very well ask him,
she'd sooner sink through the floor, and she can't ask any of his
friends. The only two who would know would probably tell him anyway,
and one of them /is/ her older brother. But the Diary answers back...
She writes in it just once to make sure that Tom didn't tell Harry
anything, but he teases her a bit, drawing her in further. By the time
she feels secure in the knowledge that Tom didn't sing (and remember,
she still has to work out a better way to get rid of the Diary), he's
got her hooked again.

~Yb, who's shift key hangs on too long and Harry always always always
comes out as HArry.