Who's possessed?

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All right, fellow alt_fen, let's talk. Someone has let the basilisk out to play at Hogwarts. The adults are speculating (woe, Dobby). The kids are speculating. We all know who did it in canon, but do you think the agent has changed in this world?

Consider: Canon!Ginny was known to be secretive, shy, hiding away with her BFF diary!Tom. Alternity!Ginny has indeed been writing, but in the public journals and in correspondence with her mother, and to all intents appears to be active and social.

Or...is that just a front, also constructed by the shade of Tom Riddle?

Personally, I don't think she's it this time around. I actually suspected Ron for quite a while, given his odd, guarded behavior, but he was with Harry and Draco when the "Enemies of the Heir" incident occurred, so I have to clear him. My new suspect is Hydra, who is certainly odd and secretive enough on her own (thanks, crazy mom!) without a secret diary, but whose solitude also makes her the perfect target.

What do you think?

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I thought she was writing a bit oddly myself, but then I thought, well, why doesn't anyone in her family notice? But they didn't realize anything was wrong in canon either. And the entry from the fourteenth is pretty different from, well, this one here (http://alt-ginny.dreamwidth.org/565.html).

I do still kind of hope that it's Hydra and not Ginny, though. Considering the trouble Ron got into with the car, I'm not sure the Weasleys could take Ginny being involved in the Chamber. Granted, the Chamber doesn't involving Harry as directly, but since it's still placing students in danger...