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What was Changeling!Harry actually thinking then he rescued Ginny from the Chamber? She thinks he sees her in the middle of the "good vs slytherin" dichotomy, but she can be really terrible at reading Harry. (I'm just starting another reread of the series <3)
I wrote a ficlet of The Changeling from Harry’s POV that touches on that a bit. You can read it here.
Harry doesn’t see her in the middle. Harry has some pretty black and white thinking, especially when he’s younger. Just another reason Ginny discombobulates him from a young age because Wealsey = good, but Slytherin = bad. That doesn’t average out to ‘in-between’ as much as ‘confusing as hell’. But always, always still worth rescuing and helping.
Do you think Ginny’s need for everything to be under her control (which we still have to discuss how different it is from Hermione’s), besides the emotional and traumatic aspects, may also come from her fear of being powerless? Better put, of not having power? And that makes her strive for it more? If it is, it’s a very Slytherin trait for sure
Oh, yes. She would much rather be in a position to have power that she chooses not to use, than to not have power at all. I think it is definitely a Slytherin trait. But also definitely out of her trauma from Tom, from being completely powerless and swearing to herself that she would never find herself in that position of weakness again. I think this is something both Ginnys have in common, and was honestly one of the reasons I thought she could actually work in Slytherin. She isn’t interested in controlling others, only interested in controlling her own destiny and path, and anyone who would try to take that away from her.
And, yes, I think Hermione’s need to control comes from a different place. Primarily the belief that she knows better than everyone else. It probably sounds egotistical, and it is a bit, but it also comes from what I imagine is Hermione’s feeling that she is Very Smart, that this smartness has been ingrained in her as being her core characteristics, her one valuable trait. (She’s bad with people and emotions and does not easily make friends, and maybe panics under stressful situations and doesn’t make the best leader or dueler, but she can always count on being smart, on Knowing Useful Things, and it’s the one thing that if she puts her effort into it, it always pays off, whereas other areas it never seems to matter how hard she tries, it always goes wrong.) Hermione isn’t interested so much in power in and of itself, as in Doing What’s Right, and Knowing More Than Everyone Else What’s Best.