Yes, Ginny is quite spoiled.  She’s meant to be.  As the youngest child of a large family, and the only girl, she had a lot of emotional pampering throughout her life.  Also, because she was the baby, her parents, especially her mother, were especially protective of her.  Her family and Harry himself have a history of keeping important secrets from her or leaving her out, “for her own good.”  Therefore, she is particularly resentful of being kept out of the loop, simply because she has been for so long.

Despite all of this, she is a genuinely good person, if a self centered one.  This episode and its consequences will change her.  Also, remember, Harry did cheat on her, and she lived through Snape’s headmastership.  She holds him much more to blame than Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who only heard about it secondhand.

This episode will change her.  She will grow up.

Thank you, I’m glad you liked it!

Well, Hermione at least is chagrined and has learned her lesson.  In her defense, she really was conditioned to think of secrets as dangerous both to her and to their bearer.  She was worried, and isn’t mad that he kept it secret.  Ginny on the other hand, who is used to being kept on the outside of secrets and is a bit sick of it, has one hell of a lot of growing up to do.

If I were wanting to get Freudian, I’d say that Harry likes domineering women because of the primal loss of his mother, or because of the way he’s had to take care of himself for so long that he subconsciously doesn’t mind someone else having control for a little while, or perhaps he just likes Ginny because of his Oedipus complex, but he does seem to like the ones that like to order him about.

Thank you!  Ginny’s had her little blow up.  She’s just sulking now.  As far as the detentions go, Snape is exercising his imagination quite happily in thinking up terrible detentions for Ginny.  Hermione’s just learning how much she likes having house elves around under Filch.

Ron: I don’t have an ulterior motive, I swear…

Harry: *Snort*