Wow, nice effort but I think you're reading too much into it. After all, its a kid's book. If you think you can do better, then write your own book and stop wasting time analyzing and criticizing JKR.

For search4inspiration:
Hermione was actually amused because of those articles, she said something like "Can't Rita do better?"
And yes, irony will be striking when Rita does better and tells this story. Remember, she's got back to job and I can't see her leaving Hermione alone. I'm expecting chapter "Revenge of Rita" :P

this is incredible- really well thought out and believable- i was skeptical at first, but this could really happen.

Except that he wasn't capable of loving her on his own in past five books. And even in Book 6 his feelings are incoherent. That and omnipresence of Love Potions in series needs explantion.

I wanted to say: If Ginny dosed Harry, she would not be going out with Dean.

Besides, she, unlike Hermione, isn't shown in proximity of his drink.

I happen to agree with some part of your theory, but I do not agree with Hermione dosing him with that. No offense, Hermione is one of the best characters in the whole Hp series. I see Ginny more capable of doing this because her attitude has been "go for it if you have enough nerve."THis is Hermione we are talking about here. Why would she do these things? This is the only person who has a given a lot more to Harry than Ron. than anyone else. Ginny isn't even well developed. R/Hr have not happened yet, JKr did say that there were some things in HBP which do not look as they first seem. You have read properly between the lines. JKr herself says that Hermione was a lot like her. I think that the R/Hr is a huge red herring. There is another case of foreshadowing when harry is at the burrow for christmas in HBp, we see this line
Oh, my poor heart, where has it gone? It’s left me for a spell …” and the very next line is “Has it occurred to you Harry”.
Who’s not with him at the burrow? Hermione! Harry’s heart (Hermione) has left for a spell
I would also like to tell that Harry ain't happy about R/Hr

I think this is a great theory; I love symbolism, and I think a lot of what JKR is trying to do as a writer is show that.

Harry has been compared multiple times in the books to Voldemort/Tom Riddle, who would obviously have some of his father in him. Indirectly, Harry is like Tom Riddle Sr, and Ginny is like Merope.

If this theory IS correct, JKR is absolutely brilliant.

This is the most amusing thing I ever read. How desperate can one look for 'clues' to a 'theory' to overlook what's actually there. One just needs to compare Ron's behaviour after being subject to a love potion and Harry's behaviour through the book, to see Harry never was never victim of a love potion.
Just as an example, the analyses of the funeral scene is just not realistic. Leaving a person you still care deeply for, which is what JKR wrote, makes it sometimes hard to go through with it, if it is your decision to make and is not forced to you by outside circumstances. When you are the one to make such a decision it is easier to go through with it by not delving into romantic gestures, because it will only remind you of what you forsake right now and what you'll be missing by your own choice. JKR made that perfectly clear in that scene for people who are not desperatly trying to see something negative in that scene.

that was mind boggaling. did not see that coming what so ever. found more evidence on pg.293. hermione catches harry putting felix potion in rons drink. Hermione says "you should be expelled for that. I'd never have believed it of you, Harry!" Harry says "Hark who's talking,""Confunded anyone lately?"

Dear Creamtea,

Muggle suggested that if we are going to discuss your article that we should invite you along to participate. The only warning I have is that I did treat your editorial as a editorial before she made this suggestion and have not got around to saying what I liked about it yet.

The other warning is that I am easily intoxicated by trace amounts of air freshioner so do have some experience into what to look for in Harry.

Here it is:

http://p082.ezboard.com/fseverussnapefanclubfrm32.showMessage?topicID=160.topic

Wow that was long. But i loved the explanation. you dont know how upse i was because of H/G. it was wounderful

This essay didn't work for me at all--it was well written, but the basic thesis failed on several levels. In order for it to be true, we'd have to believe that Harry hadn't taken any interest in Ginny at all before HBP, we'd have to believe that Hermione was dosing Harry daily with Amortensia (Dumbledore affirms that this is necessary for such a potion to work when he's talking about Merope Gaunt Riddle) and we'd have to believe that Ginny really only went out with Michael and Dean in order to make Harry jealous, in spite of the fact that her behavior never fits that mold.

I don't buy any of those premises--not even the one that Harry showed no interest in Ginny before he showed up at the Burrow.

Occam's razor tells me that's not the most probable theory to fit the given facts.

Author's Response: I'm glad to see everyone's responses to this theory. However, I seriously think that Occam's Razor is almost always badly misused when it comes to JKR's work for the very simple reason that OR was never intended to be used in order to help us understand mystery writing (and we now know from JKR's own lips that she's perfectly well aware she's writing in that genre.) It simply doesn't work to use the simplest possible solution in solving the mysteries inherent in a mystery novel-- they're written in direct *opposition* to an Occam's Razor solution. I like to compare the mystery genre to a puzzle that we gradually fit together, and this is especially true for series novels. Each new piece of information provides us with additional solutions for the puzzle, and the fun is in fitting them together in several possible combinations. However, it ISN'T very productive to whip out a razor and slash the puzzle up into little shreds, proclaiming that it's now "solved." Wasn't that the simplest solution? Well, yes, in a way it was,and now we don't have to try to figure out that puzzle anymore, but the puzzle itself hasn't exactly been solved. So the use of an Occam's Razor-style solution for this entire genre of writing is fatally flawed, I'm afraid.

That was the most interesting theory I have ever read. I'm not sure I'm ready to buy your theory, but you sure shook my confidence in the canon. I had almost given up, but what you say makes sense. I want to believe it. THat probably means in a few hours I will. Delusional to the end!