'Silly Little Girl'

[muse_0f_fire]

Over the past month or so I've written two entirely different takes on Ginny post-Chamber of Secrets.  Sad!Ginny and Evil!Ginny.  This is the first of them and (I think) the better story.  And for those of you who have been following my efforts with my AU HP epic, this isn't part of that.  It's all its own thing.

Sniffle Alert!  Not a happy

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[muse_0f_fire]

I didn't actually think of the box as a womb image although now that you point it out, I can see it very clearly. It's possible that I *did* use it as one on a subconscious level. Her choosing to set it aside is very much a part of the over all theme of the story. The kind of rejection involved here *isn't* something that can be got over so easily. And in my experience, the healing process can't even really begin yet. It's too soon.

Also, part of the point I wanted to show here was how she's left alone to deal with it all. In the books it seemed to me that everyone was far more interested and focussed on the heroism of Ron and Harry than what Ginny had suffered. She's a side character in someone else's story and she knows it. So, after all is said and done that night, she's left alone. Forgiveness in a situation like this can't always begin inside - sometimes it needs an outside catalyst, someone to say it's alright. That's something Ginny doesn't really have. And at 11 or 12 years old it's nearly impossible to step back and look at things in the kind of mature light that can help bring about healing from the inside. When I was her age it was my poetry and stories that I tore up and threw away whenever my self-confidence broke down too far.

Anyway, glad that it all rang true for you. It was a tough story to write emotionally, but it just flowed out one night. I'll be posting my other Ginny story soon. Just for a total flip-side to things. *g*