May. 17th, 2013

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Summary: "Chamber of Secrets" from Ginny's point of view. Ginny attempts to make amends and regain something approximating a normal life, with varying degrees of success. If you pretend hard enough, can you make something true?

The title of this chapter is a callback to Chapter 5: Making It Work. That was about Ginny finding a routine at Hogwarts, tacitly accepting some parts of her life that she didn't like and leaning on Tom as her main source of emotional support. This chapter is about Ginny attempting to resume some of that routine while discarding the toxic parts and finding a better emotional footing.

Or in other words, more aftermath and repercussions, because trauma doesn't disappear overnight.

cut for length )

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I could probably subtitle this "The Apology Chapter," couldn't I? :-/ Oh well, they all needed to be said, even if they weren't always accepted gracefully. (The apologies given to Ginny are just as important as the ones she gives to others. In fact, I think Harry is the only person who doesn't apologize to her at some point after the Chamber! Which... is both good and bad, and makes me want to work that into chapter 15 somehow in relation to Ginny's continuing crush on him.)

Bechdel Test = PASS, multiple times!

And now I will move on to finishing chapter 15, since I have a better idea of what Ginny needs to hash out with Ron in particular.

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Elizabeth Culmer

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