Ginny’s motivations have been pretty cold throughout this story. Stealing the diary back to prevent Harry finding out she liked him and to cover up her own crimes.
Yeah...Ginny? If you're going to cover up a secret, make sure it's a secret that not *everyone* knows. Because the crush thing? Kinda obvious.
The real reason, of course, was that Ginny was afraid Harry might discover evidence of her actually personally. Years later she will have created a false diary where she spent second year confiding things like, "What ho, Diary—my Potions class contains seven losers, an idiot, a bimbo and a freak. I hexed them all thoroughly, of course. Thinking of trying out the new bat bogey hex. I’ll tell you how it went. Cheers, Ginny."
Hee! But really, even years later, all she'd have to whine about in her diary is boys and her family, just like before. Only with scorn rather than self-pity. The context might change but the content hasn't. I'm not saying that a lot of girls don't write about that sort of thing, but I can't stand Ginny-fen acting as though she's precocious and has great involvement in the war, because she really *doesn't*. She's a very normal, if spiteful girl, concerned with boys and popularity, which is why Harry wanted to date her - because she's normal, not special.
And why, exactly, did Ginny starting writing in the damn thing again once she stole it back?
You can imagine how awkward that conversation was.
G: Tom! T: Wha-? Oh, it's you again. What now? G: I saw Harry with you! Did you - T: Did I possess him? Did I torture his tiny little brain? Did I petrify more students, ruin more lives, plot more plots of world domination? Did I steal any - G: No, no, no, did you tell him I liked him?! T: Um...no...? G: Thank god! *closes book* T: ...is it wrong that even I'm judging her?
Tom says he and Harry look something alike. Ooh! Is Harry as fanciable as you, really? Because you’re quite fit.
So he's just a narcissist after all. But Radcliffe and Christian Coulson looked nothing like each other in the CoS movie. Christian had this adorable little curl at the front of his hair that rendered him completely non-threatening. I wish it was canon! I can imagine Bella and Cissy talking about how they just want to ping it.
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Date: 2007-06-01 03:38 pm (UTC)Yeah...Ginny? If you're going to cover up a secret, make sure it's a secret that not *everyone* knows. Because the crush thing? Kinda obvious.
The real reason, of course, was that Ginny was afraid Harry might discover evidence of her actually personally. Years later she will have created a false diary where she spent second year confiding things like, "What ho, Diary—my Potions class contains seven losers, an idiot, a bimbo and a freak. I hexed them all thoroughly, of course. Thinking of trying out the new bat bogey hex. I’ll tell you how it went. Cheers, Ginny."
Hee! But really, even years later, all she'd have to whine about in her diary is boys and her family, just like before. Only with scorn rather than self-pity. The context might change but the content hasn't. I'm not saying that a lot of girls don't write about that sort of thing, but I can't stand Ginny-fen acting as though she's precocious and has great involvement in the war, because she really *doesn't*. She's a very normal, if spiteful girl, concerned with boys and popularity, which is why Harry wanted to date her - because she's normal, not special.
And why, exactly, did Ginny starting writing in the damn thing again once she stole it back?
You can imagine how awkward that conversation was.
G: Tom!
T: Wha-? Oh, it's you again. What now?
G: I saw Harry with you! Did you -
T: Did I possess him? Did I torture his tiny little brain? Did I petrify more students, ruin more lives, plot more plots of world domination? Did I steal any -
G: No, no, no, did you tell him I liked him?!
T: Um...no...?
G: Thank god! *closes book*
T: ...is it wrong that even I'm judging her?
Tom says he and Harry look something alike. Ooh! Is Harry as fanciable as you, really? Because you’re quite fit.
So he's just a narcissist after all.
But Radcliffe and Christian Coulson looked nothing like each other in the CoS movie. Christian had this adorable little curl at the front of his hair that rendered him completely non-threatening. I wish it was canon! I can imagine Bella and Cissy talking about how they just want to ping it.