Ginny hexes / kinds of bigotry / Harry's Erised / what DD remembered

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Silmariel wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/3487 :

<< With Ginny, for example, I have a conflict when it comes to
Zacharias Smith. She sais she hexes him because he annoyed her. To
start, Ginny is easily annoyed, but to end, what I know of that guy
from OoP is that he was a non-traitorous DADA member whose worst crime
was to be an skeptic and to be brave enough to confront Harry with the
doubts half or more the wizarding population had. Perfect girl? Huh?
Integration of the houses, remember, not hexing Hufflepuffes that I'm
not aware exactly why (offscreen, sorry) are supposed to be annoying
to the point of being hexed. >>

Like Lily Evans accused fifth-year James of hexing anyone who annoyed
him just because he can? Is part of Ginny being perfect for Harry that
she resembles his *father*? 

Nora wrote in 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/3488 :

<< I think there's something particularly about blood ideology, its
kind of essentialism, which is being singled out. I don't think
Voldemort could have built what he did on the doctrine
of "kill the stupid", for instance. :) >>

But there is a history of so-called religious leaders doing it with
'kill the unbelievers! kill the sinners!'

Pippin wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/3490 :

<< The Potters smiled and waved at Harry..." -PS/SS ch 12

Isn't it strange how our hearts go out to Harry, and yet his dream
is little different than Slytherin's? Harry even assumes that he
gets all his desirable traits from his wizard relatives, the Potters,
and yet we know (and so would he if he thought about it) that
his green eyes come from Mum. >>

I had a big problem with that -- the people in the Mirror couldn't all
be Potters because some are from his mother's side -- until someone on
TOL told me that 'the Potters' who smiled and waved at Harry are James
and Lily, not the whole crowd.

Young Harry's dearest dream was to be surrounded by people who accept,
stand by, and love him. He thinks that means family, parents and
grandparents (and aunts and cousin who aren't Petunia and Dudley) of
his own, and the only way the Mirror can demonstrate that the people
it invented are his family is by showing the family resemblance of
appearance. He would be just as happy to meet James's parents, his
grandparents, alive if they looked not at all like him and James.

He thinks 'people who love him' means 'family' because, not having
parents and grandparents of his own as a reality check, he has been
deceived by the deluge of TV shows and story books and greeting cards
that depict parents and grandparents as wonderful.

Kneasy wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/3513 :

<<  "My memory is as good as it ever was, Severus."

This could have multiples of meaning:
a) No, I haven't forgotten that they did try to kill you,
b) No, I haven't forgotten that you believe they tried to kill you,
or, and this one is a bit twistier
c) No, I haven't forgotten what happened, nor that there was no
punishment meted out, nor that you agreed not to stir up
trouble, nor that I owe you big time because of it. >>

Or, d) I also remember that you participated in killings with your
Death Eaters buddies (at the age of 19), and that you would be in
Azkaban for it if I hadn't spoken for you.