Ginny and the unicorn tapestry

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 187353

Bookworm wrote:
> > <snip> In at least two of the scenes, Ginny is depicted in front of the famous medieval unicorn and woman tapestry. All sorts of parallels could be drawn there. <snip>
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> dragonkeeper:
> I have always read that unicorns are the symbol of innocence. In that case, we see that a lot in the Half Blood Prince with death, love, and loss.

Carol responds:
"Always the innocent are the first to die," as Firenze says of the unicorn in SS/SS, and we see it followed up a few books later by Cedric's death. His wand had a unicorn-hair core. (IIRC, we used to speculate about unicorn-hair wands symbolizing impending doom.) 

However, none of this has anything to do with HBP, as far as I know. The medium that must not be named made up Ginny's unicorn Patronus, didn't they, or did JKR mention it in an interview? I don't remember its being mentioned in OoP (the DA chapters), and she doesn't cast it anywhere else.

So, sure, nice symbolism of innocence and virginity, but it's completely uncanonical. There's no such tapestry anywhere in the books.

Carol, thinking that this might be a good topic to bring up on the Movie list