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title: Force date: october 25, 2002 1. All her life, Ginny has been making assumptions. For starters, she’s assumed that her family is a happy one, and that all families are happy in the same way hers is. She has also assumed that she is loved, even though her family is mostly to blame for this. Then she makes the mistake of assuming she loves Harry Potter, because what else could it be if not that wonderful, fabulous, mindblowing, breathtaking emotion that replaces logic with obsession. A few years later, she’ll assume she has mis-assumed and will call this wish fulfilment instead. Ginny grows up to be what the Muggle world calls a psychologist; mostly because she likes words and feelings, and that the people need to not necessarily correlate to their feelings in order to have them or talk about them. She counsels rich children, mostly; once she had a Malfoy in her office. He had white-blonde hair but very significantly green eyes. Ginny’s still at a loss to explain this. Almost every colleague she has knows that Malfoys are due to inbreeding and lack of a healthy sex life. Memories play a separate part in this analysis; after the session, Ginny can pack up and choose not to remember whose eyes they looked like. It’s a very comforting practice and skill, and Ginny wishes she could have learnt it a bit earlier: say, age 11. In her office, they call her Virginia. She feels proper, professional, accomplished, sucessful in a way Ginny Weasley could never have been. She comes dangerously close to changing her last name. Her books call it incest; Ginny wishes she’d have known that word at age 11 instead of replacing it with love. 2. Tom placed his hands on either side of the podium and smiled. Today he was pastor, priest, pope, salesman, general, rogue, actor, lord, convincing the masses. tomorrow, who knew what the world might be? |
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