Ginevra Molly Weasley

> Yeah, size is no guarantee of power. Look at Ginny...
>
> Ginny's impressive Bat-Bogey Hex, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

**Ginevra** **Molly** **"Ginny" Potter** (née **Weasley**) (b. ***11 August*** 1981), occasionally known as **Gin** by Harry Potter, was an ***English*** ***pure-blood*** witch, the only daughter of Arthur and ***Molly Weasley*** Template:C, and the younger sister of ***Bill***, ***Charlie***, Percy, the late ***Fred***, ***George*** and Ron. She was the first female to be born into the ***Weasley*** line for several generations. She and her older brothers grew up in ***The Burrow*** on the outskirts of ***Ottery St Catchpole*** in ***Devon***.

## Ginevra Molly Potter( • née - Weasley)

### Occupation

* Chaser for the Holyhead Harpies Template:C
* Senior Quidditch Correspondent for the *Daily Prophet* (formerly)
* Sports editor for the *Daily Prophet*

## Physical description

### Eye color

Bright brown

 Ginny attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1992 to ***1999***, a year beneath the famous Harry Potter, and was sorted into Gryffindor House. During her ***first year***, she developed a long-standing crush on Harry Potter and came under the influence of the memory of Tom Riddle's sixteen-year-old self, who was preserved in a diary, which forced Ginny to re-open the Chamber of Secrets, endangering the lives of many students, including her own.

Following that ordeal, Ginny grew into a confident young woman, becoming an important member of ***Dumbledore's Army***, an organisation taught and led by Harry Potter in her fourth year. She would later fight in the ***Battle of the Department of Mysteries*** (***1996***), the ***Battle of the Astronomy Tower*** (***1997***), and the ***Battle of Hogwarts*** (***1998***). She was also an accomplished ***Quidditch*** player, playing ***Chaser*** and ***Seeker*** at different times for the ***Gryffindor Quidditch team***.

Upon retiring from the Harpies, she became the senior Quidditch correspondent for the ***Daily Prophet***. Ginny eventually married Harry Potter and the couple had three children; ***James Sirius*** (named after Harry's father and godfather), ***Albus Severus*** (named after Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape), and ***Lily Luna Potter*** (named after Harry's mother and their friend ***Luna Lovegood***). By 2020, Ginny had become the sports editor for the *Daily Prophet*.

## Biography

### Early life Template:C

Template:Dialogue a-bGinevra Molly Weasley was born on ***11 August*** 1981, to Arthur and Molly Weasley (née ***Prewett***), the first girl born into the Weasley family in a long time, and the last for that generation after her six older brothers: ***Bill***, ***Charlie***, Percy, ***Fred***, ***George*** and Ron. At that time, the wizarding community she grew up in at the height of the First Wizarding War, during which her maternal uncles, ***Gideon*** and ***Fabian Prewett***, were murdered while fighting a group of four ***Death Eaters*** led by ***Antonin Dolohov***. The war eventually ended for a time two months later, after Lord Voldemort's first defeat '*at the hands*' of Harry Potter on 31 October 1981.

Ginny and her six older brothers grew up in ***The Burrow*** on the outskirts of ***Ottery St Catchpole*** in ***Devon***, ***England***. With the majority of her brothers being keen ***Quidditch*** players, Ginny had an interest in the sport, but wasn't allowed to play with them. When she was six, she began a habit of breaking into the family broom shed and taking each of their brooms out in turn. She was never caught, and it only came to light eight years later when Hermione revealed it to Fred and George.

Ginny claims to have been looking forward to attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ever since her eldest brother started at the school. Although as she would only have been a year old at the time, it is entirely possible that she was exaggerating here. Similarly, Ginny had always been shy and clumsy around Harry Potter, such as when she had blushed and ran back to her room, and put her elbow in the butter dish.

    On 1 September 1991, Ginny accompanied her mother to ***King's Cross Station*** to see off her brothers as they departed for Hogwarts. Despite being too young to attend the school, she still begged her mother to let her go with them. While saying goodbye to her brothers, she found out that Harry Potter was on the train, and tried to get her mother to let her go on the train to see him. As the train pulled out, she began to cry, despite her brothers promising to send her loads of owls and even a Hogwarts toilet seat. She ran along the ***platform*** after the train, half-laughing and half-crying, then stopped to wave them off.

### Hogwarts years Template:C

#### First year

> I d-didn't know! I found it inside one of the books Mum got me. I th-thought someone had just left it there and forgotten about it!
>
> Ginny explaining how she got hold of the diary, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

    After meeting Harry Potter at King's Cross, Ginny developed feelings for him and talked about him all summer. When Harry arrived at the Burrow after being rescued from the ***Dursleys*** by Ron, ***Fred***, and ***George***, she became extremely shy in his presence. On their first meeting, she came down for breakfast to find him sitting at the table. Startled, she retreated back to her room and stared at Harry as he passed her bedroom on his way to Ron's. Ginny became extremely clumsy around Harry and had a habit of knocking things over when he entered a room. On the day their ***Hogwarts letters*** arrived, she blushed a deep red and knocked over a porridge bowl with a loud clatter and put her elbow in the butter dish when Harry asked her if she was starting at Hogwarts.

Ginny travelled to Diagon Alley with her family to buy her school supplies, and her excitement at finally going to Hogwarts was tempered by the fact that, due to the Weasleys' financial situation, she would have to make do with a lot of second-hand products, including her robes and books. In ***Flourish and Blotts***, however, she became the owner of a brand new set of Gilderoy Lockhart's ***collected works***. Harry, having been given them by Lockhart as a publicity stunt, gave them to her since he could afford a set of his own and was embarrassed by what Lockhart had done.

With this act of kindness and recognition, Ginny finally spoke in front of Harry, standing up to Draco Malfoy when he started to insult him. Draco was with his father, Lucius, and the elder Malfoy took the opportunity to insult the Weasley family for associating with the ***Muggle*** parents of ***Muggle-born*** witch Hermione Granger and — in his eyes — being a disgrace to wizards. During his tirade, he managed to slip Tom Riddle's Diary into Ginny's battered second-hand copy of ***A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration**.*

 File:Ginny writing in the diary.jpg  Ginny started at Hogwarts on 1 September 1992 and was sorted into Gryffindor House, like all the Weasleys before her. She discovered Tom Riddle's diary in amongst her school things and unaware of the diary's true nature, began writing in it. To her amazement, the diary wrote back, and she started to confide in Tom Riddle's memory, writing about how her brothers teased her, how she had to come to school with second-hand robes and books, and how she thought that Harry would never like her. She poured her heart out to the diary and told Tom's memory all about Harry's story. At least once, Ginny went down toward Rubeus Hagrid's hut, hoping to see Harry there. In confiding in the diary her deepest fears and secrets Ginny became increasingly vulnerable to Tom Riddle's memory, which began to pour a little of his own soul back into her and slowly started to influence her. By the start of October, the signs of the influence began to show on Ginny. She started to look peaky, but a spate of colds in the school covered up the true nature of her condition. Her brother Percy forced her to take ***Pepperup Potion*** to get her over it. By 31 October, the memory of Tom Riddle was able to take full control of Ginny and used her to open the Chamber of Secrets, releasing its resident Basilisk, the Serpent of Slytherin which then ***petrified*** ***Argus Filch***'s cat, ***Mrs Norris*** (whom she hung from a torch bracket) and put all the Muggle-born students in great danger. Tom Riddle also forced her to write a threatening message on the wall: 'THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.'

    Following the attack, Ginny seemed upset over Mrs Norris, and her brothers put it down to the fact that she was a cat-lover. She opened the Chamber of Secrets another two times, resulting in the petrification of Colin Creevey and Justin Finch-Fletchley. She became more visibly upset, and again, her brothers put it down to other causes — she sat next to Colin in ***Charms***, and that she was worried that Ron might be expelled if he got in trouble. Fred and George attempted to cheer her up, but went about it the wrong way by leaping out at her from behind statues covered in fur or boils. Ginny confided in the diary, however, that she thought she was going mad. She woke up with rooster feathers on her robes, and could not remember where she had been at Hallowe'en and when Colin was attacked. She started to think that she was the one attacking everyone. The missing pieces of her memory were starting to take a serious toll on her psyche and it was affecting her health beyond the point of looking peaky.

    Along with her brothers, Ginny remained at Hogwarts over ***Christmas***, instead of going to visit her brother Bill in Egypt with her parents. She had started to become suspicious of the diary, and several weeks after Christmas attempted to get rid of it by throwing it down a toilet in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. Once free of the diary, Ginny sent Harry an anonymous Singing Valentine on ***14 February*** 1993. He received it in front of her, as she was going into a Charms lesson, when he was accosted by the dwarf assigned to deliver it. During the delivery, Harry's bag was torn and the contents were dropped onto the floor. To Ginny's horror, she saw that Harry now had the diary. To make matters worse, Draco Malfoy implied that she had sent Harry the Singing Valentine in front of everyone. Ginny was fearful that Harry would discover her secrets, such as her feelings for him and how she thought he would never return her affections. In addition to the fact that she might be responsible for the attacks, so she waited until the boys' dormitory was empty. After the dormitory was empty for the day she then ransacked Harry's belongings to recover the diary. Retrieving it, Ginny was once more overcome by the memory of Tom Riddle and opened the Chamber again, this time petrifying Hermione Granger. It is unknown how she felt about this, but it could be deduced that she most likely felt particularity upset about Hermione being petrified as she was a close friend of her brother and of her crush.

Main article: Skirmish in the Chamber of Secrets
    Ginny tried to tell Harry and Ron what was going on, but could not get the words out, and she was interrupted by Percy. The memory of Tom Riddle was furious, as he had been planning on taking on Harry Potter himself after learning his story. Realising that Harry would come to save Ginny, he made her write a farewell on a corridor wall, then enter the Chamber of Secrets to die. She had poured so much of her life into the diary that she could not fight Tom's control of her, and the last thing she remembered as she lay down on the floor of the Chamber was Tom coming out of the diary. The memory of Tom Riddle had fed off her, gaining enough strength to become corporeal and regain the appearance of his 16 year old self. As Tom grew stronger, the life in Ginny faded away until she slipped into an unconscious state.

    Ginny awoke in the Chamber later to find that Harry had saved her, and destroyed Riddle's diary by piercing it with a basilisk fang, and Ginny's vitality was restored to her. Tearful and scared, Ginny revealed what had happened to Harry and was sure she was going to be expelled from school. After leaving the Chamber with the aid of the ***phoenix***, ***Fawkes***, Ginny was reunited with her parents in McGonagall's office. Despite her fears, Dumbledore did not place the blame on her, saying that ***older*** and wiser wizards had been duped by Lord Voldemort, and he sent her to the hospital wing to recover from her ordeal with a mug of hot chocolate.

Following this traumatic experience, Ginny returned to normal and was happy and relaxed for the rest of the school term. At the end of the school year, she travelled back to King's Cross with her brothers, Harry, and Hermione on the Hogwarts Express, playing ***Exploding Snap***. She also mentioned that at some point she had walked in on Percy and Penelope Clearwater kissing in a classroom during the year, and begged her brothers not to tease him about it.

## Physical description

> A lot of boys like her. Even you think she's good-looking, don't you Blaise, and we all know how hard you are to please!
>
> Discussion of Ginny's physical appearance, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

    Ginny was described as being an extremely pretty girl, who had the typical ***Weasley family*** traits: flaming red hair (which she wore in a long mane) and a freckled complexion. She was of light skin, a very petite stature, and bright brown eyes like her mother. When blushed, Ginny would go a shade of red that matched her hair. When in a highly emotional state, she was known to acquire a '*hard, blazing look*'.

## Personality and traits

> You don't know how weird it is for her to be this shy, she never shuts up normally —
>
> Ron Weasley regarding his sister's personality, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

 File:Ginny shy.gif  Ginny was a forceful, independent girl who often knew her own mind. She had an energetic, lively personality. Ginny also was known to be quick-witted, funny, and could often make others laugh even when they were feeling down. However, when she was young and in love with Harry in the early years of their friendship, she became shy and withdrawn in his presence. On the advice of their friend Hermione, she overcame it. She relaxed and reasserted her usual self, which was when he finally started noticing her. One of the traits he was attracted to was that Ginny rarely got weepy. Ginny was popular during their time at Hogwarts, and was fancied by numerous boys. Her brothers: ***Fred***, ***George***, and Ron, often thought that she was too popular for her own good. However, Ginny was good at lying and capable of being opaque when necessary. While staying at ***12 Grimmauld Place***, she was taught by ***Nymphadora Tonks*** how to check if a door had been imperturbed by flicking ***dungbombs*** at it and watching them bounce away as if hitting an invisible wall. When asked by her mother who was responsible, she blamed it on ***Crookshanks***, even though her hands were filthy at the time.

> **Draco Malfoy**Bet you loved that, didn't you, Potter? Famous Harry Potter, Can't even go into a bookshop without making the front page.**Ginny**Leave him alone, he didn't want all that!**Ginny defending Harry against school bully Draco Malfoy**Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

    Growing up with six older brothers toughened her up. Ginny was not afraid to stand up to anybody, friends and foes alike. Notably, she stood up to Draco Malfoy on their first meeting in ***Flourish and Blotts*** when he insulted Harry in 1992.

Ginny was an animal lover, especially fond of cats. When ***Mrs Norris*** was petrified in her first year at Hogwarts, her brothers put her shock down to this fact, not knowing that Ginny was scared because she couldn't remember what she was doing at the time and feared that she was responsible.

## Magical abilities and skills

> Come on, Ginny's not bad. Actually, I dunno how she got so good, seeing how we never let her play with us.
>
> Ginny's impressive Quidditch and flying skills, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

    Ginny was a very powerful and talented witch. She was naturally talented at the ***Dark Arts,*** a gifted flyer, and a skilled ***Quidditch*** player. At the age of fourteen, she was able to conjure a corporeal horse Patronus. This was an impressive feat, as the Patronus Charm was very advanced ***magic*** and proof of superior magical ability.

* ***Duelling***: Despite being often prevented from participating in combat by her mother mainly for her young age, Ginny was a highly talented and competent duellist. She had an uncanny ability for dodging her opponents' curses due to her agility and reflexes. Ginny survived the ***Battle of the Department of Mysteries*** with only a minor injury. She also fought ***Death Eater*** ***Amycus Carrow*** again during the ***Battle of the Astronomy Tower*** and emerged unscathed. This was partly due to the use of ***Felix Felicis*** and partly due to her agility. She later defended herself from a Death Eater during the ***Attack at the Burrow***. During the ***Battle of Hogwarts***, Ginny fired well-aimed ***curses*** into the crowd of attacking ***Death Eaters***. She, Hermione, and Luna also held their own against ***Bellatrix Lestrange***, an extremely powerful ***Dark witch***

* **Defence Against the Dark Arts**: Ginny was a committed and enthusiastic member of ***Dumbledore's Army***. Under Harry Potter's expert instruction, she learned how to successfully cast numerous defensive and offensive spells successfully. Ginny was capable of duelling highly dangerous ***Death Eaters***, which she did throughout the numerous battles of the ***Second Wizarding War***. She even survived the ***Battle of Hogwarts***, showing her excellent defensive abilities.
* **Charms**: Ginny was highly proficient in this branch of magic. In her first year, she animated *'a well card to sing shrilly when opened'*. She once used a single ***Scouring Charm*** in ***1995*** to clean all the ***Stinksap*** out of a compartment on the ***Hogwarts Express***. She also had highly swift reflexes with the ***Disarming Charm***. Most impressively, at the age fourteen, she was able to cast the extremely advanced and powerful Patronus Charm, which took the corporeal form of a ***horse***.

* **Flying**: Ginny eventually became an accomplished flyer and played both ***Chaser*** (which she prefers, as she likes scoring goals) and ***Seeker*** for the ***Gryffindor Quidditch team***. Despite not playing Seeker regularly, she was able to defeat ***Cho Chang***, a seasoned Seeker. She even effectively stepped into the shoes of the extremely talented Harry Potter (although she admitted that Harry was a better Seeker than her), winning Gryffindor the ***Quidditch Cup*** in ***1996*** and ***1997***. As an adult, Ginny became a professional ***Quidditch*** player for the ***Holyhead Harpies***. In later years, she used her experiences in the sport to instruct the new members of the ***Statute of Secrecy Task Force*** on body control techniques upon falling off a broom.
* **Agility**: Ginny was small and extremely fast, making her adept at dodging spells in combat and flying to catch the Golden Snitch at Quidditch matches. However, she sometimes could be trapped, as one time a Death Eater grabbed Ginny by the ankle.

> You've never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?
>
> Fred Weasley regarding Ginny's talent for the Bat-Bogey Hex, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

* **Dark Arts**: Ginny was surprisingly skilful in dark magic and with the casting of dark charms. In particular the ***Bat-Bogey Hex***, which she was noted to be very adept with from a fairly young age. This even gained ***Professor Slughorn***'s notice entirely for her 'marvellous Bat-Bogey Hex'. Ginny was capable of casting a very powerful and impressive ***Reductor Curse***, which helped to distract Death Eaters once. She also was described to fire well-aimed ***jinxes*** at her opponents.
* **Leadership skills**: At the young age of sixteen, Ginny was able to effectively co-lead ***Dumbledore's Army*** alongside ***Luna Lovegood*** and ***Neville Longbottom***, showing her to have been a capable and resilient leader.
* **Journalism**: As the Head Quidditch Correspondent for the *Daily Prophet* following her retirement from professional Quidditch, Ginny has been shown in her articles to be a very fair and adept journalist and reporter, often composing very unbiased and accurate articles while still injecting a certain enthusiasm into her writing style. Her position as the head of this section of the Prophet shows her level of skill as a journalist and her level of responsibility while still remaining a celebrated reporter

## Possessions

* ***Wand***: Ginny's wand was made from ***yew***, with an unknown length and ***core***. Like most wizards and witches, she purchased it at Ollivanders before beginning her education at Hogwarts in 1992.
* ***Arnold***: Ginny's ***Pygmy Puff***, or miniature Puffskein, purchased from her brothers Fred and George Weasley at their shop, ***Weasley's Wizard Wheezes***, in August of 1996.
* **Broomstick**: Ginny had an unknown broom which she used for Quidditch as Chaser or Seeker.
* **T. M. Riddle's Diary**: Tom Riddle's diary was in Ginny's possession before Harry Potter destroyed in the Chamber of Secrets on 29 May 1993. The memory that resided in the diary had begun possessing and slowly draining the life out of Ginny.
* **Dumbledore's Army coin**: Each member of the ***D.A.*** had a coin that had numerals that changed into the time and date of the next meeting of the D.A. whenever the master coin (owned by Harry Potter) was changed. The coin would also warm up to alert the holder to the change.
* **Bedroom**: Ginny's bedroom was where she used to sleep at ***The Burrow***. It is located on the first floor landing. It was described as small, but bright. It also overlooking the family's orchard and was decorated with posters of the ***Weird Sisters*** and ***Gwenog Jones***.
* **Weasley jumper**: As a member of the Weasley family she owned several Weasley Jumpers. They were made by Molly Weasley for family and friends and sent as Christmas gifts.
* **Yule Ball robes**: Ginny wore dress robes to the ***Yule Ball*** in 1994. She was accompanied to the ball by ***Neville Longbottom***.
* **Dress robes**: These were the dress robes worn by Ginny to the ***Slug Club Christmas party*** on 20 December 1996.
* **Bridesmaid's dress**: This was the dress Ginny wore to Bill and Fleur's wedding. She was a bridesmaid along with ***Fleur***'s younger sister ***Gabrielle***.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Harry Potter

> Harry and Ginny are real soulmates. They're both very strong and very passionate. That's their connection, and they're remarkable together.
>
> J. K. Rowling expands on Harry and Ginny's romance, Accio Quote!

    Simply put, Harry Potter was the love of Ginny's life. At age ten, she only briefly made his acquaintance when he boarded the ***Hogwarts Express*** with her brother Ron. She developed a crush on him nonetheless when he visited the Burrow. Shy and clumsy around him, Ginny confided her feelings in Tom Riddle's Diary. Her outpouring of emotions enabled Riddle's memory to take control of her. Harry eventually saved her life in the Chamber of Secrets by slaying Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk with Godric Gryffindor's Sword and destroying the diary with one of the serpent's fangs. Harry saving her life served to make her more withdrawn when in his presence, barely able to speak in front of him.

Ginny would often defend Harry whenever she felt it was needed, such as; in 1992 when she stood up to Draco Malfoy and fiercely told him '*to leave [Harry] alone*'.

### Children

> He'll be all right.
>
> Ginny comforting her husband as Albus leaves for Hogwarts, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

    Ginny had three children with Harry; two sons named James Sirius and Albus Severus, and a daughter named Lily Luna.

Lily looked like her mother and was jealous of her brothers, who were leaving for Hogwarts, exactly as her mother had been in 1991. Ginny comforted Albus (who physically resembled his father) when he was nervous about the possibility of being sorted into Slytherin house, and scolded James for teasing his brother. After James interrupted his cousin ***Victoire*** while she was kissing ***Teddy Lupin***, Ginny noted how similar he was to Ron.

#### Nieces and nephews

Ginny's own children seemed closest to Ron and Hermione's children, whose son ***Hugo*** was the same age as Lily, and their daughter ***Rose*** was the same age as ***Albus***.

### Hermione Granger

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    Hermione Granger was one of Ginny's best female friends and her confidante. Ginny was a year below Hermione in Hogwarts, and they had become close by Ginny's second year; Hermione comforted Ginny that year when the presence of ***Dementors*** upset her (Ginny was more affected than most others due to her possession by Voldemort the previous year).

### Hogwarts staff

Ginny first met Rubeus Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper in 1992, during her first year at Hogwarts. Ginny seemed to be friendly with Hagrid, as they were both friends of Harry, Ron, and Hermione. At one point, Hagrid told Harry that he saw Ginny near his hut; he supposed that Ginny hoped to see Harry, and teased Harry for it. After the Second Wizarding War, Hagrid appeared to be friendly with Albus Potter, the youngest son of Ginny and Harry.

    Ginny, like many people, thought Albus Dumbledore was the greatest wizard of all time. Ginny met Dumbledore in 1992, during her first year at Hogwarts, where Dumbledore was Headmaster. Dumbledore comforted and reassured Ginny after she was possessed by a fragment of Voldemort's soul and manipulated into opening the Chamber of Secrets during the 1992–1993 school year. Ginny was one of the first people to learn about Dumbledore's death, and the only one able to console Harry afterwards. Ginny and Harry named her younger son after Dumbledore.

Ginny also happened to like Minerva McGonagall, her Transfiguration professor and Head of House. It is obvious that McGonagall could have been fond of Ginny since she was a talented witch and did not condone or tolerate bullying, something that McGonagall most likely valued.

Ginny showed particular dislike for the Potions master, Severus Snape as he was a cruel and very unpopular teacher. Aside from his creepy demeanour and snide attitude toward everyone, he had always favoured Slytherins because they were in his house and her particular dislike for Snape was something she shared with her brothers and friends. She also knew that he was part of the Order of the Phoenix and when she learnt that Snape killed Dumbledore, she thought he had betrayed the Order. She was also, obviously, not happy about his tenure as Headmaster when Hogwarts fell under Lord Voldemort's control. However, near the end of the Battle of Hogwarts, she learnt from Harry that he was on their side all along. It is unknown how she acted to the revelation of Snape's true loyalties. She did allow her second son to have his middle name from Severus.

### Lord Voldemort

> ...I was patient. I wrote back. I was sympathetic, I was kind. Ginny simply *loved* me... 'No one's ever understood me like you, Tom... I'm so glad I've got this diary to confide in... It's like a friend I can carry around in my pocket...' If I say it myself, Harry, I've always been able to charm the people I needed.
>
> Tom Riddle regarding his manipulation of Ginny, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

 File:Tom Riddle Half-Blood Prince Profile.jpg  When Arthur Weasley got into a fistfight with Lucius Malfoy in ***Flourish and Blotts*** prior to the start of Ginny's first year, Malfoy used the opportunity to slip Tom Riddle's diary into the pile of books Ginny was carrying. Though Malfoy most likely believed the diary was simply enchanted to open the Chamber of Secrets, it was actually one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, and in fact, contained a fragment of the Dark Lord's soul.

Tom Riddle's soul communicated with Ginny through his diary, sympathising with her problems and giving her advice, which made her emotionally vulnerable to Riddle's influence. Eventually, Riddle was able to possess Ginny, use her to open the Chamber of Secrets, and free Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk to petrify several ***Muggle-born*** students (including Hermione Granger). Ginny eventually figured out what she had been doing, despite having no memory of what happened during the times she was possessed, after finding herself covered in feathers and rooster blood. She attempted to flush the diary down a toilet, but being a Horcrux, it remained undamaged and later ended up in the hands of Harry Potter.

Ginny, worried the diary would reveal to Harry things she'd written about her feelings for him, stole the diary back. Riddle possessed Ginny one last time and had her enter the Chamber of Secrets, with every intention of killing her and using her life to restore his own. Harry, however, as a Parselmouth, was able to enter the Chamber, rescue Ginny, and slay the Basilisk with the Sword of Gryffindor. He then used one of the Basilisk's fangs to stab the diary, effectively making it the first of Voldemort's Horcruxes to be destroyed.

Upon speaking with Dumbledore about the diary's remains, Ginny and her family came to learn that Tom Riddle is the original name of Lord Voldemort, much to Ginny's horror. According to herself in later years, Ginny would never forget these experiences and comforted Harry when he thought he was suffering a similar experience.

Upon time travelling to the night of her parents-in-law's murder.

## Media

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## Etymology

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## Behind the scenes

* It is stated that Ginny looked forward to attending Hogwarts, ever since Bill began attending, however since Bill began attending in 1982, when Ginny was only a year old, this seems unlikely as she would have been too young to realise what was going on. It is more likely that one of her earliest memories, likely from the age of three or four, would be of both Bill and Charlie heading off to school.
* Harry and Ginny share a lot in common when it comes to Lord Voldemort-they were both temporary Parselmouths, they were both briefly possessed by Lord Voldemort and they have also lost family members to Voldemort.
* According to Harry Potter, her most attractive feature is her red hair.
* Ginny is portrayed by ***British*** actress ***Bonnie Wright*** in all of the film adaptations, making her one of the 14 characters to appear in all 8 film adaptations.
	+ Wright has also provided the voice for Ginny in the video game versions of *Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* and *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*.
	+ Bonnie Wright has blue eyes, instead of brown, as Ginny is described as having. She is also not as short as Ginny is described to be in the books.
	+ Bonnie Wright's favourite Ginny Weasley quote was 'Good luck.'
	+ Ginny's role is shortened early on in the films. She has very few lines and only a few minutes worth of screen time in *Chamber of Secrets*. She only has one line and has not even one minute of screen time in *Prisoner of Azkaban*. Again, in *Goblet of Fire*, she has a very small role.
* In the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play), Ginny is portrayed by the following actors:
	+ Poppy Miller (original West End and original Broadway)
	+ Emma Lowndes (West End Year 2)
	+ Lucy Goleby (original Melbourne and Years 2 & 3)
	+ Diane Davis]] (Broadway Years 2 & 3)
	+ Susie Trayling (West End Years 3-5)
	+ Angela Reed (original San Francisco and Year 2)
	+ Sarah Schütz (original Hamburg)
	+ Trish Lindström (original Toronto)
* Ginny is voiced by Imogen Church in the audiobook version.
* Ginny wears the number 5 in her Gryffindor Quidditch team tunic in *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince* (film). Many photographs and posters have her wearing number 6, but that is the number of the generic tunic she wore only for the try-outs.
* Ginny's Patronus is a horse. It is never described in the books, but is shown in The Film Adaptation of *Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix*. This was later confirmed by J. K. Rowling.
* In the film adaptations, Ginny's relationship with Michael Corner was cut. However, it is included in the video game of the film.
* J.K. Rowling has stated that she had planned certain moments, such as Ginny beating Cho Chang to the Golden Snitch during a Quidditch match, from the start as a subtle comparison between Ginny and Cho, showing that Ginny was a better match for Harry.Template:Fact
* Many fans believed that 'Ginny' was short for 'Virginia'. It was later established that Ginny's given name is 'Ginevra', as her Great Aunt Muriel referred to her as such during Bill and Fleur's wedding in Deathly Hallows.
* Several times throughout the series, some of Ginny's actions are described as being catlike.Template:Fact However, her personality does not reflect the style of her actions, as her Patronus is a horse instead of a cat.
* J. K. Rowling revealed a picture via her official Twitter account on 18 April, 2016 showing her idea of some of the main character's wand designs, where Ginny's wand wood was revealed for the first time to be made from yew. Interestingly enough, both Harry Potter's wife and mortal enemy share the same wand wood.
* Ginny has two soundtracks which are titled as *Ginny* and *When Ginny Kissed Harry* on the soundtrack for *The Film Adaptation* of *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*.
* Ginny Weasley and Harry Potter's romantic relationship is told in a slightly different way in the films from the novels of *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*, *Deathly Hallows: Part 1* and *Part 2*:
	+ In the *Half-Blood Prince* book, Harry shares his first kiss with Ginny in front of the Gryffindor students in the Gryffindor common room after the Gryffindor Quidditch team won the Quidditch Cup. Also in the book, Harry ends his romantic relationship with Ginny at Dumbledore's funeral.
	+ In *The Film Adaptation* of *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*, Ginny and Harry go to the Room of Requirement together to hide the Half-Blood Prince's copy of Advanced Potion-Making, after he curses Draco Malfoy. While there, Ginny asks Harry to close his eyes while she goes and hides the book so that he and other students cannot find it. When she returns to Harry, she kisses him. Harry was very much delighted and surprised that he received a kiss from Ginny. Also at the end of the film, it is implied that Ginny and Harry are still dating.
	+ In the ***Deathly Hallows*** book, Harry and Ginny kiss in Ginny's room in the Burrow and Ron interrupts them when he opens the door.
	+ In *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1*, Ginny comes down to the sitting room and asks Harry to help zip up her dress. Harry and Ginny then share a kiss that gets interrupted by George Weasley.
	+ In *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2*, Ginny and ***Neville Longbottom*** are both climbing up on one of the staircases, and run into Harry during the battle. Neville ask Harry if he has seen ***Luna Lovegood***, then ***he*** confesses to Ginny and Harry that he has feelings for Luna, ***he*** went away to find and tell Luna. Harry and Ginny share a quick kiss, Harry was going to tell Ginny that he loved her, but Ginny quickly told him that she knows, and they both went back to what they were doing before they met up. This did not happen in the DH book.
* In the *Deathly Hallows* book, Ginny is wearing a golden dress at the ***Wedding of William Weasley and Fleur Delacour***. In *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1*, she is spotted wearing a sliver and black dress at the ***wedding***.

* In the *LEGO Harry Potter* series, Ginny's actions towards Harry are set out differently:
	+ In Year 2, when she sees Harry arrive, she sighs and giggles at the sight of him. At Flourish and Blotts, she shows no interest in Lockhart and instead attempts to attract Harry. In the Chamber of Secrets, she shows no sign of worry or fear about her own and many other's near deaths, but simply smiles lovingly at Harry, hearts appearing over her.
	+ In Year 4, she seems more concerned over Harry's faint in the Quidditch World Cup than anyone.
	+ In Year 5, she appears to be greatly disappointed over the obvious feelings between Harry and Cho and desperately tries to beat Cho to it, narrowly failing. In the Department of Mysteries, she seems reluctant to go with Luna and Neville rather than Harry. While Harry is being possessed, she rushes up to see the events first and affectionately strokes his arm at the end of the year.
	+ In Year 6, her relationship with Dean is cut and she seems more devoted to Harry as ever, flirting with him at the Burrow and even in front of every one else in the Slug Club. She also appears to have taken Harry to the Room of Requirement simply for the opportunity to kiss Harry.
	+ In Year 7: Part 2, she arrives at the room of Requirement to see Harry. They run towards each other to kiss, but stop and just shake hands awkwardly.
	+ The fact that her relationship with Dean was cut in Year 6 makes it unknown why Harry and Ginny did not attend the Slug Club Christmas Party together. However, they are seen dating in the beginning of the 'Slug Club' level after the first cutscene.

### Author's comments

* '*I think you can see that she is a fairly forceful personality (and she always has been, remember Ron saying that she 'never shuts up' in Chamber of Secrets)?'*

* '*The plan was, which I really hope I fulfilled, is that the reader, like Harry, would gradually discover Ginny as pretty much the ideal girl for Harry. She's tough, not in an unpleasant way, but she's gutsy. He needs to be with someone who can stand the demands of being with Harry Potter, because he's a scary boyfriend in a lot of ways. He's a marked man. I think she's funny, and I think that she's very warm and compassionate. These are all things that Harry requires in his ideal woman. But, I felt — and I'm talking years ago when all this was planned — initially, she's terrified by his image. I mean, he's a bit of a rock god to her when she sees him first, at 10 or 11, and he's this famous boy. So Ginny had to go through a journey as well… I feel that Ginny and Harry, in this book, they are total equals. They are worthy of each other. They've both gone through a big emotional journey, and they've really got over a lot of delusions, to use your word, together. So, I enjoyed writing that. I really like Ginny as a character.*'
* '*The backstory with Ginny was, she was the first girl to arrive in the Weasley family in generations, but there's that old tradition of the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter and a seventh son of a seventh son, so that's why she's the seventh, because she is a gifted witch. I think you get hints of that, because she does some pretty impressive stuff here and there, and you'll see that again.*'
* '*Harry and Ginny are real soul mates. They're both very strong and very passionate. That's their connection, and they're remarkable together*... *I think she's like Harry. He's got an intellectual curiosity and she's got something of belief.*'
* '*Harry and Ginny were always meant to be together. I thought it was obvious, but apparently there were internet wars about this.*'

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## Notes and references

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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 World Book Day Chat, 4 March 2004
2. ↑ Quidditch World Cup 2014: Daily Prophet reports from ***Pottermore*** (via The Internet Archive)
3. ↑ Template:PM - Explore the Story: Ginny Weasley (via The Internet Archive)
4. ↑ World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling The Weasleys are known British.
5. ↑ Template:COS - 'She'd found out something about the Chamber of Secrets. That must be why she was —' Ron rubbed his eyes frantically. 'I mean, she was a pureblood. There can't be any other reason.''
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Template:CC
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 Template:PS
8. ↑ Template:COS - 'At that moment there was a diversion in the form of a small, red-headed figure in a long nightdress, who appeared in the kitchen, gave a small squeal, and ran out again.'
9. ↑ Template:COS - 'Harry just caught sight of a pair of bright brown eyes staring at him before it closed with a snap. 'Ginny,' said Ron.'
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Template:COS
11. ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 11.12 Template:DH
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Template:HBP
13. ↑ J.K. Rowling MSNBC Interview on Accio! Quote
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 Times Online - The Unwritten Story of Harry's Friends and Their Children
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Pottermore - 'New Cursed Child character portraits of Ron, Hermione and Rose Granger-Weasley'
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Supposition based on existence of such an individual
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 Template:OOTP
18. ↑ Template:POA
19. ↑ Template:LEGO
20. ↑ jk\_rowling on Twitter Template:See image
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22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `JKR`
23. ↑ Quidditch World Cup 2014: Daily Prophet reports from ***Pottermore*** (via The Internet Archive)
24. ↑ Behind the Name: Rankings for 'Potter
25. ↑ Scholastic Chat
26. ↑ MuggleNet: Name Origins
27. ↑ Bonnie Wright's profile at the Internet Movie Database describes her as being 5'6" (1.68 m).
28. ↑ News: 'Cursed Child reveals first look at Harry, Ginny, and Albus Potter in character' at Pottermore
29. ↑ News: 'New cast announced for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child London' at Pottermore
30. ↑ https://www.pottermore.com/news/andrew-lincoln-to-narrate-new-digital-audio-book-of-jk-rowling-quidditch-through-the-ages
31. ↑ JK Rowling's World Book Day Chat
32. ↑ MuggleNet and The Leaky Cauldron interview Joanne Kathleen Rowling part 3
33. ↑ The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet interview Joanne Kathleen Rowling: Part Three

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