Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ginny Weasley
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Character | |
| Ginny Weasley | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Hair color | Red |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Related Family | Arthur Weasley (father) Molly Weasley (mother) Bill Weasley (oldest brother) Charlie Weasley (older brother) Percy Weasley (older brother) Fred Weasley (older brother) George Weasley (older brother) Ron Weasley (older brother) |
| Loyalty | Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter |
Contents |
[edit] Overview
Ginevra "Ginny" Molly Weasley is the only daughter and youngest child of Arthur and Molly Weasley. She is in Gryffindor and is the sister of Ron Weasley. She is one year younger than both Ron and Harry.
The author has said that Ginny's birthday is 11 August (internal evidence suggests 1981), which actually makes her almost exactly one year younger than Harry (whose birthday is 31 July, apparently 1980) and 17 months younger than Ron (whose birthday is 1 March, apparently 1980).
[edit] Role in the Books
[edit] Philosopher's Stone
Ginny has two brief cameos in the book, first when Harry boards the Hogwarts Express and secondly when he returns. Her interest in Harry is established.
[edit] Chamber of Secrets
Ginny's crush on Harry is established. She first sees Harry the morning after he arrives at the Burrow and promptly runs away. As Harry and Ron go up the stairs to Ron's room, where Harry will be staying, they have a brief glimpse of Ginny before she closes her door, and Ron remarks that that's very unusual for her, she's usually extremely outgoing. And later, when Harry shows up in the kitchen at breakfast, Ginny promptly spills her porridge.
When the family, with Harry, go to buy school books at Flourish and Blotts', Ginny is hanging back as everyone else lines up to meet Gilderoy Lockhart; Harry, mortally embarrassed after his encounter with Lockhart and his ruthless drive for publicity, dumps all the books he got from Lockhart into Ginny's cauldron. Draco Malfoy now appears saying that Harry must have loved getting onto the front page of the paper. Ginny defends him, upon which Draco suggests that Harry now has a girlfriend. Lucius Malfoy, Draco's father, appears on the scene, and looks over some of the textbooks that Ginny is carrying; disparaging their quality, he returns them to her cauldron.
She makes several scattered appearances where she appears very ill at ease. This is particularly noticeable on February 14th. Professor Lockhart has employed a number of dwarfs who will be running around the school delivering Valentines; one of them runs Harry to earth to deliver a Valentine poem apparently sent by Ginny. In the process of securing Harry, the dwarf has to knock him over, which sends the contents of his book bag all over the floor. One of the things that spills out is the Very Secret Diary; Draco picks it up and looks at it, and Harry and Ron manage to reclaim it. Ginny is present during this, and runs off, apparently very upset; we are led to believe that it is because her Valentine greeting to Harry has resulted in him being ridiculed.
At breakfast on the day that Professor McGonagall announces the imminent revival of the victims of the monster, Ginny approaches Harry and Ron, and indicates that she wants to tell them something; but Percy appears, and tells them that what she has to say is not that important Ginny flees, apparently still upset. Later that day, Harry and Ron discover, with help from Hermione, that the monster in the chamber is a Basilisk, and from things told to them by Aragog, surmise that the entrance to the Chamber is in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. They go to find Professor McGonagall to report their findings, but are prevented from doing so when all students are sent back to their common rooms; they remain in the staff room, hidden, and hear that Ginny has been taken into the Chamber of Secrets.
Harry and Ron, with Lockhart's unwilling assistance, now locate the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets and enter it to rescue Ginny; Lockhart's attempt to erase their memory results in the ceiling falling in, stranding Harry on the side of the rock fall towards the Chamber. Alone, he goes on, finding an unconscious and failing Ginny, and a somewhat ghostly Tom Riddle. Tom explains how he had used his diary to ensnare Ginny, to get her to open the Chamber of Secrets and release the monster, and was now taking her life force in order that he could return to life himself. Tom also reveals that he now calls himself Lord Voldemort. Harry fights the monster and wins, then destroys the diary, causing the simulacrum of Riddle to vanish and restoring Ginny to consciousness. Together with Ron and Lockhart, they return to the surface. There, in Professor McGonagall's office, Ginny is reunited with her father and mother, and Harry tells the story of how she had been controlled by Voldemort.
Shortly after this, with help from Dobby, Harry figures out that it was when Lucius Malfoy was inspecting her purchases at Flourish and Blotts, that Ginny had had Riddle's diary dropped in with her other books. Professor Dumbledore warns Lucius at this point that if any more of Riddle's old school things appear, it is quite likely that Arthur Weasley will trace them back to the Malfoys.
Finally, on the Hogwarts Express homewards, Ginny reveals that the reason Percy had prevented her from speaking to Ron and Harry was that she knew that Percy had a girlfriend and had seen him kissing her, and Percy had thought that was what Ginny wanted to tell Harry.
[edit] Prisoner of Azkaban
Ginny's role is largely relegated to the background. She is present in the Leaky Cauldron when Harry meets up with the Weasleys and Hermione as he prepares for school. Ron shoos her away in the Hogwarts Express so that he, Harry, and Hermione can have a private conversation. When the train stops for inspection by Dementors, she makes her way back to Harry's compartment and joins them, as does Neville Longbottom, and she is there when Harry faints.
[edit] Goblet of Fire
Ginny is present at The Burrow when Harry arrives there, arriving in the parlour behind Mrs. Weasley shortly after Mr. Weasley starts berating Fred and George for having dropped a Ton-Tongue Toffee in front of Dudley Dursley and given him a four-foot-long tongue. Shortly after, Ron tells Harry that it was Ginny who named his owl Pigwidgeon, and that the owl now won't respond to any other name.
Ginny attends the Quidditch World Cup with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, Percy, Charlie, Bill, and Mr. Weasley. Ginny and Hermione complain about having to get up so early, but Mr. Weasley points out that having a hundred thousand wizards attending an event does make for logistics problems, and people with cheaper tickets have to go as much as a week ahead of time and stay there for the whole time. When the Muggle owner of their campsite has to be charmed to forget that what he is seeing is odd, Ginny remarks that as head of Magical Games and Sports, Ludovic Bagman certainly ought to know better than to wander around in is Beaters robes.
After the match, riots break out, and Mr. Weasley sends the younger Weasleys, plus Harry and Hermione, off into the nearby woods for safety. Harry, in the dark, trips over a root, and Ginny and the twins end up separated from the other three. We don't see them again until the riots have been quelled; the three of them have returned to the tents, uninjured.
Just before the Yule Ball, we see Ginny attempting to comfort Ron, who had asked Fleur Delacour to the Ball and had been cut dead. It occurs to Ron, who has just heard of Harry's rejection by Cho Chang, that Hermione is a girl, Ron can ask her, and Harry can go with Ginny. Both Hermione and Ginny refuse, saying they are already going with someone else. Ginny, it turns out, attends the Yule Ball with Neville Longbottom, who repeatedly steps on her feet while they are dancing, and Hermione with Viktor Krum. We later find out that at the Yule Ball, Ginny met Michael Corner, and started going out with him shortly afterwards.
[edit] Order of the Phoenix
Ginny re-enters our story in the room Harry shares with Ron at the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. Shortly after Harry arrives, and after he has taken out his frustrations on Ron and Hermione, they are joined by Fred, George, and Ginny. The Weasleys inform Harry of Percy's falling out from the family. After dinner, Sirius Black proposes to let Harry in on the current operations of the Order of the Phoenix; Ron and Hermione arrange to be present by telling the adults that Harry would be sharing what he learned with them anyway, and Fred and George because they are older than Ron, but Ginny is unceremoniously and with much complaining bundled off to bed.
We see Ginny in passing a few times during the next few days. She is roped in to help with making Grimmauld Place habitable again, removing and destroying Dark artifacts and materials, and infestations of magical pests. She takes part in the victory celebration after Harry returns, unscathed, from his hearing. And she is present at the celebration of Ron and Hermione's becoming Prefects.
Fred and George use magic to take their trunks downstairs on the day they have to get back to school, and the flying trunks evidently injure Ginny. She is healed by the time they actually leave for the train, however. Once on the train. Fred and George go off to talk with Lee Jordan, and Ron and Hermione have to go to the special Prefects carriage. Harry and Ginny meet up with Neville, and end up sharing a compartment with Luna Lovegood. Ginny introduces them, but apart from cleaning up the compartment after Neville showers everyone with Stinksap, plays little further part until the school year is underway.
Ginny is one of the twenty-eight students (Harry, Ron, Hermione, and twenty-five others) who attend the first meeting of what is to become Dumbledore's Army at the Hog's Head. After the meeting, Hermione remarks that Michael Corner was likely only there because Ginny was attending. She goes on to say that while Ginny had been waiting for Harry, she had given up; meeting Michael at the Yule Ball, she had started to go out with him later in the year. Ron immediately decides that he doesn't like Michael Corner.
After the publication of Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four, Ginny is concerned that the DA may no longer meet, but Harry reassures her that they will be going on with it regardless. She goes off to tell Michael Corner, and through him the Ravenclaw members of the DA. At the first meeting of the DA, in the Room of Requirement, Hermione suggests Defence Association as a name for the group; Ginny suggests Dumbledore's Army, as it has the same initials and represents the worst fear of the Ministry, who have foisted Dolores Umbridge on them as a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. The suggestion is voted on and passes unanimously.
When Harry, Fred, and George are banned from playing Quidditch, Ginny replaces Harry as Seeker.
When Harry sees Arthur Weasley being attacked by a snake, Professor McGonagall takes him and Ron to Dumbledore's office. There, Dumbledore hears him out, sends two portraits to investigate, and tells McGonagall to fetch the other Weasley children. Fred, George, and Ginny are present as Dumbledore explains what has been happening, and creates a Portkey to take them back to Grimmauld Place. There, they demand to be taken to see their father, but Sirius refuses to allow them to go, saying that having the children show up at the hospital before their mother has even been notified would raise more questions that they do not want raised. They all wait anxiously until they receive word from Molly Weasley that Arthur is going to be all right.
When they visit Mr. Weasley in hospital, Arthur, Molly, Tonks, and Alastor Moody discuss the events that led up to the attack, and Moody voices the suspicion that Harry, obviously seeing into Voldemort's mind, may be possessed by him. Harry and Ginny are both listening in using the Twins' Extendable Ears. As a result of this, Harry goes into seclusion, feeling that it is unsafe for him to be around others. Hermione, abandoning a planned skiing trip, appears at Grimmauld Place and drags Harry out of seclusion to talk to the others. Hearing his concerns, Ginny points out that it was stupid for Harry to be avoiding her, because she's the only person Harry knows who has actually been possessed by Voldemort, and knows what it feels like. After Harry apologizes, Ginny tells him that if there aren't big stretches where he doesn't remember what he was doing, he hasn't been possessed. Harry is greatly relieved by this.
Visiting Arthur on Christmas, Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Hermione suddenly find a need to be elsewhere, so they decide to visit the tea shop on the top floor of the hospital. Before they can reach it, however, they are spotted by one of the patients, Gilderoy Lockhart. Lockhart's ward nurse seems to think the four of them have come to visit Gilderoy, and she is so pleased by this that the four cannot see any way to avoid spending some time with him. While they are visiting Gilderoy, they also see Broderick Bode, who is not yet speaking English, and they run into a horribly embarrassed Neville, who is there with his grandmother to visit his parents, Frank and Alice Longbottom.
We hear in passing that, even this far into the season and so very close to their match against Hufflepuff, Angelina Johnson, the captain of the Quidditch team, is extremely unhappy with the way her team is shaping up, especially Kirke and Sloper, the two beaters who have replaced Fred and George. Ginny apparently flies extremely well, and Hermione tells Ron and the twins that this is because she had been breaking into the Weasley family broom cupboard for years, flying all of their brooms in turn. Despite the poor quality of the beaters, Gryffindor manage to keep their losses to only ten points when Ginny catches the Snitch from right under the opposing seeker's nose.
Just before Spring Break, Harry sees a disturbing episode of his father's life, from Professor Snape's memory, in Dumbledore's Pensieve. This memory destroys the idealized image of his father that Harry had created. The memory is so disturbing that Harry does not wish to discuss it with anyone, but he is able to pass off his brooding as being caused by his recent breakup with Cho Chang. Ginny tracks him to the library to bring him his Easter present from Molly Weasley, and suggests that Harry should talk to Cho. Harry says that he'd really like to talk to Sirius, but that's impossible; the only way he could do that is via the fireplace in Umbridge's office, that being the only one that is not monitored. Ginny points out that living with the Twins has left her believing that nothing is impossible. Shortly, the twins mention to Harry that they are planning a diversion on the first day of classes after break, and suggest that he use that time to get into Umbridge's office to have his chat with Sirius.
Harry has been having dreams that he believes mirror real-world events all year about the Ministry, and now dreams that Sirius is being tortured by Voldemort. He decides that he must contact Sirius at Grimmauld Place to see if he is all right. Ginny, along with Luna Lovegood, are passing in the corridor as Harry is telling this emphatically to Ron and Hermione, and volunteer to help out, guarding Umbridge's door while he is inside talking to Sirius. Harry, under the Invisibility Cloak, hears Ginny telling people that the hallway is filled with Garroting Gas, before he enters the office. Umbridge is not deceived, however, and when Harry is pulled out of the fireplace, he finds that Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Luna, and Neville have been captured by the Inquisitorial Squad. Hermione manages to convince Umbridge that they have been working on a weapon for Dumbledore, and with Harry leads her off into the Forbidden Forest. Ginny and the others are left under guard in Umbridge's office.
Ginny apparently leads the escape from Umbridge's office with a well-executed Bat-Bogey hex which takes Draco Malfoy out of action. She, Ron, Luna and Neville meet up with Harry and Hermione, and Luna points out that they can use Thestrals to fly to the Ministry and save Sirius. Ginny is unsure about riding something she can't see, but gamely accompanies Harry to London, in through the Ministry visitor's entrance, and into the hall of Prophecy. Ambushed by Death Eaters, she, Luna and Ron become separated from Harry, Hermione and Neville. The two groups re-unite in the antechamber; Ginny apparently suffers a broken ankle, and has to be carried into the Brain Room when the Death Eaters find them. There, she is hit by an apparent Stun spell and plays no further part in the battle.
Harry visits Ron, Hermione, and Ginny in the Hospital wing. Ginny apparently is nearly healed, but both Ron and Hermione have taken serious damage and will need more time. Luna and Neville are also visiting, and they have found that Umbridge is also present, recovering from her sojourn among the Centaurs.
On the Hogwarts Express home, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny are sharing a compartment. When Cho Chang walks past, Hermione tentatively mentions that she's dating Michael Corner now. Ron is surprised, saying that he thought Ginny was dating Michael, but Ginny says that when she had caught the Snitch in the Quidditch match against Ravenclaw, Michael had gone off to comfort Cho rather than celebrating with Ginny, so she had dumped him. Ron suggests, looking furtively at Harry, that she could now choose someone better, and Ginny says that she's now dating Dean Thomas. Ron seems somewhat distressed by this information.
[edit] Half-Blood Prince
Ginny enters our story shortly after Harry arrives at The Burrow. Professor Dumbledore had brought him in quite late at night, and he had been put in what had been Fred and George's room. On his first morning there, after Ron and Hermione have waked him up, Ginny slouches in, complaining about her. The identity of this mysterious female is resolved almost immediately when Fleur Delacour appears with Harry's breakfast, followed by a vexed Mrs. Weasley. Ginny aparently feels that Fleur is far too full of herself, and has nicknamed her "Phlegm". It appears that Mrs. Weasley is trying to get Bill interested in Nymphadora Tonks, but Ginny agrees with the others that, particularly with Tonks seeming so sad since the events at the end of the previous school year, there is little chance that she will succeed.
Ginny accompanies the others to purchase school supplies at Diagon Alley. When they visit Fred and George's joke shop, Fred and George try to grill Ginny about her relationships. She characteristically tells them that it is none of their business. Ginny is captivated by a Pygmy Puff (possibly a variant of a Puffskein), and purchases one, naming it Arnold.
On the Hogwarts Express, we find that Professor Slughorn is once again starting up his "Slug Club", and has invited Harry to join him for lunch. Arriving in Slughorn's compartment, Harry is somewhat surprised to find Ginny there, particularly as Slughorn introduces those gathered there, and Harry notes the famous parents and other relations. It turns out that Slughorn had been passing Ginny's compartment when Ginny had been casting a particularly good Bat-Bogey Hex, and Slughorn had invited her to lunch on the strength of it. Slughorn has invited Harry for obvious reasons, and Neville because he had accompanied Harry at the Ministry, but seems unaware of the role Ginny played in that battle, and Harry, Neville, and Ginny do not wish to talk about that battle, much to his disappointment.
In Potions class, Harry is given an old textbook to use, which has a large number of revisions to the standard recipes. Following these revisions, he excels in his first lesson. Harry smells a flowery scent in the love potion in the room, which he later recognizes as Ginny's scent. Ginny, passing by, asks if he is taking instructions from a book. Harry remembers the diary of Tom Riddle from four years before. Hermione apparently remember similarly, because she immediately tests the book for anything hidden, but finds nothing except the notation that the book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince.
Harry, as Quidditch team captain, holds Quidditch tryouts. Ginny is selected as one of the three Chasers, the other two being Katie Bell and Demelza Robins.
Just before the first Hogsmeade weekend, Ginny delivers a note to Harry from Dumbledore, setting a time for their next lesson. She says she may see him there, she is planning to go to Hogsmeade with Dean Thomas.
After Katie Bell falls afoul of a jinxed necklace, Harry brings Dean onto the Quidditch team to replace her. At the first practice of the new team, Ron, who is aware of the attachment between Dean and Ginny, and is suffering from nerves at the prospect of once again flying as Keeper, plays horribly; Dean, Ginny, and Demelza play very well, though, and Harry compliments them. As they return to the common room, Harry and Ron discover Ginny and Dean kissing in an alcove; Ron is furious that anyone would take such liberties with his sister, and Harry feels more than a little jealousy, though he does not express it. Ginny says Ron is just jealous because he has nobody to snog with, and kisses from old Auntie Muriel are the only ones he's ever gotten, and storms off.
At the following Quidditch match, the announcer, Zacharias Smith, is critical of Harry's choosing Ginny and Ron as team members, but subsides after Ron manages to stop everything that comes his way, and Ginny scores four of the six goals against Slytherin. At the end of the match, which Harry wins by distracting the Slytherin Seeker and catching the Snitch first, Ginny "forgets to brake" as she is swooping in for the victory celebration, and crashes into the announcer's podium, sending Smith crashing to the ground.
Luna Lovegood, in conversation with Harry, mentions that Ginny has been defending her, at one point recently stopping people from calling her "Loony".
When Harry and Ron are at The Burrow for Christmas, Fred and George stop by to tease Ron, after learning about his affair with Lavender Brown from Ginny. When Percy stops by later (apparently under orders from Rufus Scrimgeour), Ginny, Fred and George all claim credit for the thrown parsnips that hasten his departure.
On their return to Hogwarts, Ginny says that she had promised to meet Dean, but she seems somewhat unenthusiastic about the prospect. Harry is somewhat encouraged by this; while he has not yet fully realized it, we can see that he is falling in love with Ginny. However, he is still remembering Ron's reaction to catching her with Dean, and is afraid that if he does act upon this, he will make an enemy of Ron, and possibly lose his best friend.
Ginny is, of course, at Ron's bedside as he is recovering from being poisoned on his birthday.
Harry is injured in the next Quidditch match by Cormac McLaggen, who has taken a Beater's bat to demonstrate its correct use, and promptly hit the Bludger straight at Harry. When he leaves the Hospital Wing, Hermione tells Harry that Dean and Ginny had fought, because Dean had thought it funny that Harry had been hit. Hermione also feels that it was very lucky that Harry had escaped with such minor injuries. Harry tries to hide his elation at the thought that Ginny and Dean's relationship might be hitting a rough spot, but Hermione, he thinks, may have noticed.
Hermione suggests that Harry should use some of his precious Felix Felicis potion to get a memory from Slughorn that Dumbledore wants. Harry is initially reluctant; he had been saving that for some vaguely defined purpose, something to do with Ginny and Dean breaking up. Eventually he does take it, and as he, under his Invisibility Cloak, heads out through the portrait hole, he brushes against Ginny, who is just coming in with Dean. Ginny rounds on Dean for helping her when she doesn't need to be helped.
The following morning, Harry learns from Hermione that Ginny and Dean had broken up. While this creates an opportunity for Harry, it also creates a problem: can Dean and Ginny play Quidditch on the same team, if they are at daggers drawn? Luckily, he doesn't have to find out, as Katie Bell returns from St. Mungo's that same day. With McLaggen gone and Katie back, the Quidditch team is a lot more fun. Ginny in particular is the life of the team, pulling stunts and cracking jokes. Harry is glad to have the opportunity to watch her and walk alongside her, but is still afraid of what Ron would do if he started going out with her.
When Harry receives detention, to be served Saturdays with Snape, for injuring Draco, Ginny fills in as Seeker, and Dean fills in as Chaser; Harry apparently feels that they will interact little enough that their animosity will not be a major factor. Despite the horrible showing in the game where Harry was injured, they still have a chance at the Quidditch Cup: they have to win by more than 300 points, however. Returning from detention on the day of the Quidditch final, Harry walks into a celebration: it seems they have won the Cup. Ginny, seeing him enter, runs to Harry; he takes the opportunity offered and kisses her. Looking around afterwards, Harry sees that Hermione approves, and Ron is accepting, and takes Ginny for a long walk on the grounds. In the course of this, he learns that Gryffindor had won 450 to 140.
Ginny and Harry are happy together, and Harry is happy that the discussions people are having about him now are about something that makes him happy, rather than about Dark magic. His Potions work is suffering since he hid his textbook, but Slughorn attributes that to his blooming romance with Ginny.
At the battle under the Astronomy tower, Harry sees Ginny battling Amycus Carrow. After the battle has ended, it is Ginny who leads Harry away from the body of Dumbledore and up to the Hospital Wing, where he reports to Minerva McGonagall. Ginny, with Ron and Neville, had been watching the Room of Requirement; when Draco had come out, he had thrown something at them and everything had gone dark. Because Ginny and Ron had taken some of Harry's Felix Felicis potion, they were unhurt. They had luckily run into Remus Lupin, who had located the Death Eaters under the Astronomy Tower and had notified the other members of the Order.
Harry and Ginny are now spending all their time together. They sit together for Dumbledore's funeral. Once that has ended, Harry says that he and Ginny must separate. He knows that Voldemort attacks people through those they love, and Harry cannot stand to put Ginny in that sort of risk. Ginny is saddened, but understanding.
[edit] Deathly Hallows
Ginny and Mrs. Weasley are the only two people at The Burrow when Harry arrives after his escape from Privet Drive; the other Weasley family members arrive over the next short while. She is set to work preparing for Bill and Fleur's wedding, in the course of which she and Harry must work together. Harry happens to mention that Mrs. Weasley seems to be hoping that someone else will kill Voldemort while Harry is there making vol-au-vents, and Ginny picks up on the implication that Harry's mission seems to involve killing Voldemort.
On Harry's birthday Ginny can't think of anything to give him and so she calls him into her room and kisses him so that Harry can have "something to remember her by"; the kiss ends with an interruption by Ron. Ron takes Harry aside and angrily tells him that breaking up was hard enough the last time, and that he shouldn't be leading Ginny on if he doesn't mean it; Harry says that it won't happen again. Over the next few days, Harry keeps starting to exchange glances with Ginny, and then remembering that he shouldn't.
When the Ministry falls and Harry, Ron, and Hermione have to escape, Harry is worried about Ginny. He remains worried until Mr. Weasley's Patronus informs them that the family are all right. He doesn't stop thinking about her, however; imagining her on her way to Hogwarts on the Express, and what she is doing in school.
When Ted Tonks and his group camp within earshot of Harry, Hermione, and Ron, we hear that Ginny had been involved with the attempted theft of the sword of Gryffindor from the Headmaster's office, and that she was punished by having a detention with Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest. Harry is much relieved to find out she got off so lightly.
Between Christmas and his capture by Snatchers in March, Harry keeps taking out the Marauder's Map and looking for Ginny's labeled dot on it, trying to imagine what she is doing.
In the final battle, Ginny comes to the DA's aid to stop Voldemort. When Cho Chang, a former girlfriend of Harry's, offers to take him to the Ravenclaw common room so he may see a model of the diadem, Ginny suggests strongly that Luna be Harry's guide instead. Ginny is forbidden to take part in the Final Battle by Mrs. Weasley, but rebels. Finally she accepts that she will have to stay in the Room of Requirement, and sulkily, she does so, until Harry suddenly recalls where the lost Diadem of Ravenclaw is. He then evicts her with strict instructions to stay nearby so she can return to the room after he is done; but when he leaves the Room of Requirement, she is nowhere to be seen.
As Harry heads for the Forest to meet Voldemort, after viewing Severus Snape's memories, he passes Ginny on the grounds, ministering to a fallen girl. He thinks he'd like her to know he was there and that he cared about her, but passes on to his fate. She is the last person he thinks about before he "dies."
In the final assault on the school, Ginny is one of three students dueling Bellatrix Lestrange. Bellatrix sweeps all three of them aside when Mrs. Weasley joins in, but Ginny apparently takes little harm from this..
In the combined celebrations and mourning after the battle, Harry leaves Ginny to mourn Fred's death with her parents, thinking that he and Ginny will have a long time to be together later.
At the end of the novel, 19 years later, it is indicated that Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley are married and have three children: Lily Luna, James Sirius, and Albus Severus.
[edit] Strengths
- Ginny's brothers and family provide her with an inner strength and pride.
- Ginny is very funny and not afraid to speak up.
- She is very good-looking, and this largely contributes to her confidence.
- Her best class is Charms as is shown, in a rather comical light, by her advanced and frequent 'Bat-Bogey Hexes,' which are also noticed by Professor Slughorn in book 6.
[edit] Weaknesses
We are yet to see what Ginny is afraid of. However it was noted in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban that she had a fear of being controlled by Lord Voldemort. It seems that she has, however, learned to deal with that fear by Harry's fifth year. At Christmas time of that year, she speaks to Harry quite dispassionately about her experiences while under the control of Voldemort.
[edit] Relationships with Other Characters
Romantic relationships are covered in more depth in a separate section.
- Ex-Boyfriend Michael Corner: Ginny meets him first at the Yule Ball and goes out with him almost all through Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. She breaks up with him after his house team loses against hers in Quidditch. He "got really sulky, so I ditched him and he ran off to comfort Cho."
- In the ending of Harry's 5th year and throughout most of the 6th, Ginny is dating Dean Thomas.
- During the course of the books, she establishes a strong friendship with Hermione. While it has been building quietly since Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, it becomes much more apparent in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
[edit] Analysis
[edit] Questions
- What will happen to Ginny in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? It is unlikely that she will let Harry go on his Horcrux quest without her. Rowling has hinted that she will have a part, whether Harry likes it or not.
[edit] Greater Picture
It can be seen why one may think that Ginny could be a Horcrux, seeing that in the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince we find out that the diary was in fact a Horcrux, and in the Chamber of Secrets Tom Riddle tells us that 'Ginny poured out her soul to me.' Later he continues 'I grew powerful, far more powerful than little Miss Weasley. Powerful enough to start feeding Miss Weasley a few of my secrets, to start pouring a little of my soul back into her...'
It seems likely that Ginny was not made a Horcrux, but only possessed by Voldemort, as Dumbledore explains to Harry: 'Well, it is inadvisable to do so, ... because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a risky business.' It is unlikely Voldemort would have deliberately entrusted even a fragment of his soul to a human.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Ginny explains to Harry what it felt like when she was possessed by Voldemort. Other than in the Chamber of Secrets, Ginny has never mentioned any instances of feelings of possession. We note that Professor Dumbledore speculates that the snake, Nagini, may be a Horcrux owing to her behaviour. From this, it seems likely that Ginny, if a Horcrux, would still display some strange behaviour. Furthermore, as Voldemort intended to kill Ginny in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, making her a Horcrux would have been pointless.
