Ginny/possession

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 152293

 
> Catherine now:
>    
>   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....."  

Hickengruendler:

Yes, I agree with you, that's how I read the scene as well.

It's just that I think, that this reading supports pippin's argument, 
that Ginny is to blame for what happened. At the very least she's to 
blame for the attack on Hermione and Penelope, which happened after she 
got the diary back. As I already said, I can understand all of Ginny's 
actions, until she wrote in it again. She already suspected what the 
diary was doing. She even threw it away. But if your theory is right 
she wrote in it again, because of her own personal problems and in 
spite of her suspicions that it made her attack Muggleborns. She 
basically put her secret above the life and safety of the other 
Hogwarts students. And this interpretation worries me, because I don't 
think we are meant to see Ginny as that self-centered. And yes, I don't 
think even her youth fully explains her actions here. If she was old 
enough to realize, that something was wrong with the diary and to throw 
it away, then she should also be old enough, to not open it again, in 
spite of the fact, that she wanted to know if Harry knew about her 
secrets.

Maybe I'm too harsh on her here, I don't know. I'm not a fan of her, to 
say it carefully, and I wish someone would have given her a bit of her 
own medicine in HBP. But my dislike only steams from the later books, I 
positively loved her in GoF, for example, and I never blamed her for 
what happened during CoS. But during this dicussion, I find the 
arguments of those, who argue that Ginny is partly to blame, because 
she stole the diary back and wrote in it again, just more convincing. 
And even in your post, which I suppose was meant as a defense for 
Ginny, you are giving her selfish motives for writing in the diary 
again, which she put above the safety of Hermione, for example.