![]() But what happened to everything Tom fed and poured into her when the diary was destroyed? Was it somehow erased from her mind, never to be found, or was it buried just below the surface waiting to be unleashed? I'd find myself somewhere and not know how I got there." 6 And as far as we know Ginny still hasn't been able to fill in the "big blank periods." 7 Thus she was able to be "perfectly happy again' because she doesn't remember. So how was Ginny "perfectly happy again"? The closest explanation I've found is in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, when Ginny explains to Harry what life was like during her first year: "When he did it to me, I couldn't remember what I'd been doing for hours at a time. Dumbledore even told Harry, in Half-Blood Prince, how extraordinary it was that he hadn't suffered any lasting damage from his close contact with Voldemort. At first glance there doesn't appear to be any connection once Riddle's diary was destroyed Ginny is said to be "perfectly happy again." 5 But how is this possible? How could anyone be "perfectly happy again" after having a piece of Voldemort living inside of them for months? It's not. Rowling's emphasis on the words my and her in conjunction with the words soul and secrets hints that there was a connection between Ginny and Tom which ran deeper than we first thought. This also made her more vulnerable to the poison that he was feeding her. This made her both very willing to trust Tom and very unwilling to believe that he was using her to attack her fellow students. What was it about Ginny's soul that made Tom feel she was "exactly" what he wanted? I find it most likely that Tom thought Ginny's soul was perfect because she was so young and innocent and had lead a very sheltered life, always protected by her family. As a result, when Harry finds her down in the Chamber "there isn't much life left in herĀ¦" because "she put too much into the diary, into ' 4 freeing him from the pages. For, as we learned from Professor Slughorn, the soul is meant to be whole due to the poison that Riddle fed her, Ginny's soul was no longer intact. Once he was strong enough he began pouring bits of his soul into her in an effort to poison her soul so that he could weaken her, and eventually become strong enough to be freed from the diary and gain a life of his own, having sapped the life out of Ginny by poisoning her soul. The more Ginny wrote in the diary the more Tom was able to take from her. The more Ginny used the diary the stronger Tom became, using her fears and secrets as nourishment, if you will. He poured the piece of his soul that resided in the Horcrux diary inside of Ginny and fed secrets to her that only that piece of Voldemort's soul would know. When I first read this passage I thought Tom was speaking metaphorically or figuratively, but now I see that he meant this quite literally. Powerful enough to start feeding Miss Weasley a few of my secrets, to start pouring a little of my soul back into her. ![]() I grew powerful, far more powerful than little Miss Weasley. ![]() ![]() I grew stronger and stronger on a diet of her deepest fears, her darkest secrets. Ginny poured out her soul to me, and her soul happened to be exactly what I wanted. Knowing that there is even more to the diary than was first thought I was prompted to re-read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to see what further answers I could discover about Ginny's possession and her connection to Tom Riddle. Not until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince did we learn why: the diary was a Horcrux, containing a piece of Lord Voldemort's soul, so Ginny was actually conversing with the soul of a sixteen-year-old Voldemort. If you're anything like me, then you felt there was some huge piece of information that was being kept from us. "I suppose the real reason Ginny Weasley's like this' 1 replied Tom, "is because she opened her heart and spilled all her secrets to an invisible stranger." 2 Upon his arrival in the Chamber of Secrets Harry finds the cold, nearly lifeless body of Ginny Weasley and inquires how she ended up like this.
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