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Here are some links about Wand Wood & Yew, in case anyone finds them useful ✨

Ginevra Weasley's wand

The author revealed a picture via her official Twitter account on April 18, 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, Harry Potter's wife and his mortal enemy both share the same wand wood.

Ginny Weasley's wand was made of yew[1] wood with an unknown length and core material. Like most wizards and witches in Great Britain, Ginny

Yew

A yew tree stood in the Little Hangleton graveyard, where Lord Voldemort was resurrected. Yew trees were also known to grow in the Forbidden Forest, where Harry was first formally introduced to Thestrals, seeing them "between two gnarled yew trees" during one of Rubeus Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures lessons.

Yew (genus Taxus) is a genus of small coniferous trees or shrubs in the yew family Taxaceae. All parts of the tree are poisonous.[5] A yew t

Wand Wood - Yew

Yew wands are among the rarer kinds, and their ideal matches are likewise unusual, and occasionally notorious. The wand of yew is reputed to endow its possessor with the power of life and death, which might, of course, be said of all wands; and yet yew retains a particularly dark and fearsome reputation in the spheres of duelling and all curses.

However, it is untrue to say (as those unlearned in wandlore often do) that those who use yew wands are more likely to be attracted to the Dark Arts than another. The witch or wizard best suited to a yew wand might equally prove a fierce protector of others. Wands hewn from these most long-lived trees have been found in the possession of heroes quite as often as of villains.

Where wizards have been buried with wands of yew, the wand generally sprouts into a tree guarding the dead owner’s grave. What is certain, in my experience, is that the yew wand never chooses either a mediocre or a timid owner.

The following description of the powers and properties of various wand woods is taken from notes made, over a long career, by Mr Garrick Oll

Theory: Riddle's Diary Influenced The Selection Of Ginny's Wand.

Ginny gets the diary put on her person by Lucius Malfoy the same day her yew wand choose her.

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Here are some links about Wand Wood & Patronus, in case anyone finds them useful ✨

Why is Ginny Weasley's patronus a horse?

Answer (1 of 10): As J.K. Rowling herself studied Mythology as a large part of her college education, I’ll give my perspective on why I thin

Patronus Charm

The Patronus, asserted Spangle, represents that which is hidden, unknown but necessary within the personality.

… that a human confronted with inhuman evil, such as the Dementor, must draw upon resources he or she may never have needed, and the Patronus is the awakened secret self that lies dormant until needed, but which must now be brought to light...

The Patronus is the most famous (and famously difficult) defensive charm. The aim is to produce a silvery-white guardian or protector, whic

House of Gaunt

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in Bob Ogden's memory, Merope Gaunt is shown as pining for Tom Riddle Senior, who rides his horse, sometimes alongside Cecilia, past the Gaunt Shack every day.

Likewise, Ginny Weasley, who is possessed by Gaunt descendant Tom Marvolo Riddle (Lord Voldemort) in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, has a Patronus of a "silvery-white" horse, and her wand is of the same wood, yew, as Tom Riddle's wand.

The House of Gaunt was a pure-blood family, and one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight. Obsessed with blood purity, they had a tendency of marrying

Runes

Ron Weasley: "How were the runes?"

Hermione Granger: "I mistranslated ‘ehwaz,’. It means ‘partnership,’ not ‘defence,’ I mixed it up with ‘eihwaz."

- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 31 (O.W.L.s)

ehwaz is the proto-Germanic word for horse, while eihwaz is yew-tree.

Ehwaz is a magical rune meaning "partnership" that comes up in the Study of Ancient Runes O.W.L.. During the 1995–1996 school year, Hermione

Eihwaz was a magical rune which meant "defence".[1] This specific rune came up during the 1996 Ancient Runes O.W.L.s examination.[1] Hermion

[Fan Theory] The origins of magic and "Pureblood society" originally came from claims of "godly descent"

Wand Wood & Patronus

Yew & Horse

Ehwaz & Eihwaz

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Many readers have (rightly) seen traces of famous myths in Chamber of Secrets , such as Persephone and Hades, in addition to the abundant

Red Riding Hood Goes to Hogwarts

by B.L. Purdom

Grimm’s heroine receives a red hood from her grandmother. Ginny’s red hair is her chief distinguishing physical trait, a legacy from her parents and grandparents.

Both girls are going to a place connected to their family heritage, they’re on the cusp of knowing the difference between good and evil, of being sexually and spiritually mature, but they both fall prey to a Tempter.

When Red Riding Hood first encounters the wolf in Grimm’s story she’s not afraid, because she “did not know what a bad animal he was”. Ginny thinks of Tom Riddle as “a friend I can carry round in my pocket.” Murphy calls the girl’s reaction “a statement of prelapsarian innocence”—which means innocence like Adam and Even had before the Fall, before they knew about good and evil, which also seems to be how we’re supposed to regard Ginny. This may be why Dumbledore holds Ginny blameless. The fault lies with the “wolf”—Tom Riddle.

Worse Things Than Wolves

by Robot_From_The_Future

"As I said, there are worse things than wolves lurking here. Stay on the path."

1911 Little Red Riding Hood by J. W. Smith

1864 Red Riding Hood by John Everett Millais

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Female Archetypes in Harry Potter

by B.L.Purdom

Kore is also used for Persephone, the goddess of spring and rebirth, and the consort of Hades, the God of the dead. In Greek mythology, Persephone's return to her mother Demeter from the underworld each spring brings the world back to life.

Ginny Weasley's the rescued Damsel in Distress in Chamber of Secrets. She's like Persephone taken by Hades. She must be retrieved for the world to have life again. Remember, the school is threatened with closing after she's taken into the Chamber.

After the diary is depleted of its Voldemort's old bit, Ginny awakes and no longer seems to be in the realm of Hades, she's like Persephone returned from the underworld. The school also comes back to life, no longer at the risk of being closed. And the ensuing party is like a May Day festival, celebration of the world waking once more and the death of metaphorical winter, all because the Madien has returned to the land of the living.

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Quantum Harry: A Unified Theory of the Potterverse 2017-2019

by B.L. Purdom

The cards of the Tarot Major Arcana numbered one through twenty-one can be arranged in a grid with cards one through seven in the first

The Devil

The Devil card is linked to the element of Earth, and therefore to graveyards and to the Devil’s mythic home, Hell. This card is also linked to Capricorn, Tom Riddle’s astrological sign, and to ambition, a Slytherin characteristic.

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Quantum Harry: A Unified Theory of the Potterverse 2017-2019

by B.L. Purdom

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets being JK Rowling’s retelling of the Grimm version of “Little Red Riding Hood” is possibly one

The High Priestess

Ginny Weasley, the character who is the best embodiment of the ruling archetype for Chamber of Secrets, the Maiden, also embodies the corresponding Tarot archetype at the top of the second column of cards: the High Priestess.

Behind the High Priestess there is often a tapestry depicting pomegranates; the goddess Persephone, Demeter’s daughter, ate pomegranate seeds when she was taken to the underworld, the land of the dead, by Hades. These are also symbols of fertility found carved into Solomon’s temple. The Priestess could be considered an embodiment of Sophia, wisdom personified (for which Solomon was also known) or Persephone. Persephone’s imprisonment by Hades and her eventual (temporary) release is one of the Greek myths JK Rowling has enmeshed in the plot of Chamber of Secrets, since Ginny is taken down to the Chamber (a symbolic underworld) by the one who rules the Chamber (Tom Riddle), who is equivalent to Hades, the god of the underworld, and the world (Hogwarts) was in danger of ending after Ginny is taken (Hogwarts is on the verge of closing).

The High Priestess on the card holds a book on her lap, and Ginny’s relationship with a book is the impetus for the plot of Chamber of Secrets.

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The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature

Holly Virginia Blackford

2011-2012

Abstract:

In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls’ literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The story of the young goddess’s separation from her mother and abduction into the underworld is, at root, an expression of ambivalence about female development, expressed in the various Neverlands through which female protagonists cycle and negotiate a partial return to earth.

Chapter 7, “The Riddle of Féminine Écriture in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998),” explores Rowling’s second novel as a transitional novel in the series, recapitulating Harry’s earlier concerns—with abandonment, teasing, meeting wizarding expectations—from a daughter’s perspective. A daughter of a good, pure-blood family, a family representing a comfortable mother-child unity for the motherless Harry Potter, Ginny can hardly express her rage overtly. Yet Ginny receives second-hand robes, little attention, and merciless teasing at the hands of her brothers. While her brothers receive the new, glossy books of Gilderoy Lockhart, whom her mother “fancies,” she herself is thrown old, discarded books that symbolically embed a very dangerous diary. It is in this diary that Ginny pours out her rage, her disembodied voice that disrupts the school and conjures the immortal boy Tom Riddle, the boy who is really the dark lord himself.

Ginny’s diary is practically a Winnicottian model of a “found” yet “made” object, discarded amongst old school things given to her by her mother. The fact that she finds it “‘inside one of the books Mum got me’” (330) suggests it is Winnicott’s definition of transitional object as both mother and not-mother. The diary emulates the howls of Mrs. Weasley permeating the first third of the novel, howls lavishing attention on her sons without attending to Ginny at all. Yet the diary becomes a howl of Ginny’s own.

Chapter Seven: The Riddle of Féminine Écriture in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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By embedding Ginny’s Persephone story in Book 2 of the series, Rowling uses the abduction as a mournful farewell to pre-adolescence, after which the agents of darkness ascend.

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The Persephone myth in Chamber of Secrets defines developmental rhythms for both Ginny and Harry, who witnesses Ginny’s descent and return. Hardly a disinterested party, he has a vested stake in negotiating Persephone’s return and exorcising the demon lover, partly to oust the rival and partly to prolong childhood and seal the chamber.

Mrs. Weasley is mother earth.

183

Hints of Ginny “playing apart from Demeter” abound, even in the initial pages.

184

The placement of the line following the boys’ need for Lockhart’s books suggests that the aboveground reverence for surface knowledge and for males precludes the needs of Ginny and makes her vulnerable to the dangerous narcissus, which, appropriately enough, presents itself in the second-hand books.

185

The howls of a Demetrian figure are a fixed feature of the Persephone myth

196-197

Dumbledore, taking the role of Zeus, negotiates her return by completely erasing Ginny’s agency

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Harry Potter and the Classical World: Greek and Roman Allusions in J.K. Rowling's Modern Epic

2015

Richard A. Spencer

Chapter 6 deals with other major characters, including Ginny Weasley as Persephone being rescued from the underworld.

Dumbledore as Divine Deliverer (Page 72-75)

Voldemort and Hades (Page 80-81)

Ginny Weasley - Persephone Rescued from Hades (Page 88-90)

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The Bloody Chamber (1979 novelette by Angela Carter)

Crimson Peak (2015 film)

Sofia Wells as Edith in Crimson Peak

Sofia Wells as Clary Fray (Ginevra Weasley) in Shadowhunters

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Virginia Woolf AU

The Waves (1931, novel by Virginia Woolf)

Bernard - Harry

Louis - Ron

Neville - Neville

Jinny - Ginny

Susan - Hermione

Rhoda - Luna

Percival - Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

The Waves

Then Jinny came. She flashed her fire over the tree. She was like a crinkled poppy, febrile, thirsty with the desire to drink dry dust. Darting, angular, not in the least impulsive, she came prepared. So little flames zigzag over the cracks in the dry earth.

The Hours

1998 (novel by Michael Cunningham)

2002 (film)

Stephen Dillane as Leonard Woolf

Christian Coulson as Ralph Partridge

1 Corinthians 15:26

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

The Waves

What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy.

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Basilisk & Weasel

Harry Potter: A History of Magic 2017

“Pliny reported that, although the basilisk was only twelve inches long, both its touch and breath were deadly. Intriguingly, the basilisk could be killed using the scent of a weasel. If weasels were let loose in their lairs, they were able to slay the basilisk with their odor.”

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Venom

by Tara1189

the boy of her ink-stained dreams…fleeting enough to feed her soul-destroying imaginings.

Lullaby

by Tara1189

No longer a boy of paper and ink, but flesh and blood. Real. Alive at last.

The Art of Harry Potter: The Definitive Art Collection of the Magical Film Franchise 2017

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1594 Penitent Magdalene by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

1986 Caravaggio (film)

Tempus

by Tara1189

The demons of the past compete/And draw and tear my heart to pieces (Boris Pasternak, Mary Magdalene)

Book5 C23

…seeing as you don't know anyone but me who's been possessed by You-Know-Who, and I can tell you how it feels.

1858–1860 Mary Magdalene by Frederick Sandys (Pre-Raphaelites)

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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said.

"It is true," he replied, "but you would do well not to believe it."

- del amor y otros demonios

The Bishop, who had been waiting for him, found him writhing on the floor in a mire of blood and tears.

"It is the demon, Father," Delaura said. "The most terrible one of all."

- del amor y otros demonios

Of Other Demons

by CarmineDuvale

He had read a story once upon a time, about a girl who had been buried for so long a holocaust had risen in her chest and a man with black holes on his fingertips had managed to unleash it. He's spent years wanting a repeat.

1994 Of Love and Other Demons (novel)

2009 Of Love and Other Demons (film)

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Victorian Era AU

Charles Dickens AU

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

It was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness

Tempus

by Tara1189

He remembered the evenings he used to slip away to Oxford Street because it was always lit up and blazing like a magnificent Christmas tree. Normally tight-fisted stall owners, filled with Christmas cheer, used to slip him handfuls of roasted chestnuts that burned his fingers. Crouched in shop-door openings, Tom had watched glamorous couples in fur-lined coats sweeping past, laughing in high, elegant, cultured voices. They did not even glance at the poorly-dressed, Dickensian-looking waif with his mop of charcoal hair and feverishly pale skin. They didn't know that he would have been one of them, had his father not -

David Copperfield 1849 (novel)

David Copperfield 1999 (television drama)

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Blitz (film) 2024

Gracie Cochrane as Ginevra Weasley

Underworld

by Tara1189

Now he stood before her, calm and collected save for the intensity in his eyes. "London is burning. Have you ever seen the sky on fire, Ginevra? Believe me, it is a sight you would never forget. It brings back memories, memories I thought I had -" he broke off abruptly, looking away, his gaze dark and distant. He pressed his hands against his forehead, startlingly white against the black of his hair.