When Harry and Ginny share a birthday kiss in DH, Ginny says " There's the silver lining I've been looking for." I'm Clueless about what she meant! And also Ron got mad at Harry for "leading her on" but she started the kiss, HELP! Thanks

Since Harry is, no doubt, a 100% red-blooded heterosexual male, when Ginny said that about the silver lining she was most likely referring to the fact that Harry kissed her back. He responded as she anticipated, and ended up tickling each others tonsils! That's just my opinion.

Ron got angry at Harry for "leading her on" because, as you recall, Harry and Ginny broke up at the end of HBP. Harry had given Ron the impression he wasn't interested in her anymore. He obviously hadn't told Ron that he only broke up with her because he was protecting her. As if he could have. And, even though Ginny was the aggressor, Ron was more upset with Harry for having kissed her back.

Can you imagine what would have happened had Ron not entered the room!

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oh yeah i remember that bit well if you think have you never heard the saying look for the silver lining when someone is down well ginny was upset that harry and her broke up and when they kissed that made her happy so that was the silver lining she had been looking for she had been looking for the bright side of her and harry not being a couple any more.

she would also have meant the fact that harry said

[quote]"So then i thought, I'd like something for you to remember me you know if you meet some veela when yor off doing whatever you are doing"

and then harry replies

"I think dating opurtunities are going to be pretty thin on thhe ground on be honest"

and then ginny says

"That was the silver lining i was looking for"[quote]

and in that exchange i am pretty sure she meant that she was happy that when she questioned him about dating some one else he told her that he wasnt going to be dating anyone else so she was happy as the poster before me explained what a silver lining is

I disagree with you guys. I think she meant that he was being smooth for the first time. If you remember, he was being...well not smooth. Silver lining on a jacket is soft and smooth. I think that's what Ginny meant.

thats a cool theorire and i have never heard it before but i am 100% sure that no offense but that is wrong

harrypotterandginnyforlife, your theory makes sense and it'd be awesome, but just one teensie thing... Didn't she say 'there's the silver lining I've been looking for'? Cause if I'm not mistaken and she did, then it changes everything, doesn't it? It won't refer to the dating opportunities anymore.

I started this topic and now I think it might just be a phrase that says i'm happy now and i'm gonna kiss you! Or it could mean theres that thing i've been waiting for you to say! Well I love you people who wrote back on this topic! You guys ROCK! ~Thanks!

But don't they say that 'every cloud has a silver lining' I think it's because she just brought up somthing bad like that he might see another girl or that he is going away (I cant remember). That is the 'cloud', while when he says that he wont see any other girls is the 'silver lining'

But thats just what I think
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I think that all Ginny was saying is that when Harry didn't push her away there was still some hope that he wasn't too far lost in his thoughts that he could remember to feel things. She had shown him that there was a reason for him to fight. Even though he was walking to the hardest thing in the world (uncertainty that you will live the "fight"), he had a reason to want to do it. I think it more to do with the big picture and not the relationship between them. But, it could also mean that Ginny saw hope that it wasn't truly over between them. Ron's reaction to the kiss more out of protection for his sister then anything else. Through out all the book Ron never really looked beyond what was right in front of his face. He saw them kissing and assumed the worst of Harry. It wasn't the first time he thought ill of Harry. Remember him thinking Harry had managed to enter the Tri Wizard Tournament without telling him how it was done.

Yeah, I think all that Ginny meant was that she was glad that he wouldent be seeing anyone else while he was gone.

Too true about Ron saying that Harry was messing with her but Ginny really started it.

I must confess I didn't understand the meaning of the phrase "silver lining" when I first read the book... I was swallowing it, because I didn't want anyone to tell me what was going to happen, but, the second time I read it, I didn't want to be overcome by any little detail, so I looked it up in a dictionary, and found out that

silver lining is the last amount of hope someone can hold

Harry said,

To which Ginny replied,

which is a very simple excuse for her to kiss him.

As for what Ron tells Harry, I think that Ron made him responsible not only because he couldn't picture his little sister throwing herself at a guy (he didn't like that idea), and since Harry is the older one in the relationship, and knew about the journey that was coming he shouldn't be lifting up her spirits, specially if he was not going to be able to be there for her.

Ginny said that she was "looking for" the silver lining, which implies that she knows just how bad things were about to get. Harry would be leaving for who knows how long, which couldn't have been easy, and the imminent threat of death would have always just been hanging there. Clearly, this would be awful. When you're faced with this sort of situation, you end up looking for something good that comes from it, no matter how faint. Thus, the "silver lining." For her, the situation was so bad that she almost jokingly falls back on to the fact that Harry probably wouldn't be dating anyone else on his journey.

Of course, in the other forums, people have crazy ideas about just how far her meaning actually went (ha, ha, good thing Ron came in) though I'm not sure that I quite believe them. As for Ron being upset with Harry, Ron always was a little squeemish about their relationship, but mostly, it's just brotherly love.

I don't recall that part but she probably meant that she was happy he felt the same way she did. That's my guess. Not saying anyone is right or wrong. Just voicing my opinion.

Silver lining is an expression meaning sort of- the good coming out of something bad. If you know what I mean? My daddy told me. A clearer way to put it would be that the bad thing is that Harry's leaving, and that she's looking for something good to come out of that. The good thing she's looking for is put as the silver lining in this context. So she's looking for the silver lining. If that makes sense? Haha, I tend to be kind of confusing when I explain things.

There's nothing extremely deep about the whole silver lining thing. It's an expression that means something good coming from a bad situation, nothing more! I mean- we all know JKR likes to go deeply complicated in plots sometimes, but come on- to not let her use a simple expression without going all obsessed about it? It's quite simple.

It's a phrase which means "something good" Ginny said this after Harry Stated "Dating opportunties would be thin on the ground" on his "trip".

This means she was happy he wouldnt date anyone else.

It's simply an expression that signifies hope in a bad time or a bad situation. Ginny knows that Harry is going to be away for a very long time, that he might not even survive. And when Harry tells her that he certainly doesn't plan on dating anyone during his travels, she clings to that and gives him a good-bye kiss.

She loves him, and the fact that she might never see him again would be very hard, so she's probably feeling desperate to get a last moment with him.

When Ginny said that, she meant it as - "Yeah, that's what I thought" OR "Oh Harry, that's what I feel to!" It's the answer she wanted to hear from him. It gave Ginny the opportunity to give him the birthday gift she wanted so much to give to Harry.

I know this, I know this! When Harry says that dating opportunities are thin on the ground, Ginny is assured that he won't date anyone. Ginny notes that Harry still cares for her because he kisses her back. We get hints that Ginny definitely cares for Harry when she coughs loudly, i think, when Gabrielle was flirting with him. And she interrupts when Cho asks Harry to go the Ravenclaw Tower. Silver lining means like a finishing touch, so Ginny just wanted to make sure that Harry still loved her.

That was exacly it. I finely understand.

Could it mean a really good memory? Like a silver line for a pensive? She could know what a pensive is and how do we know if she might have one? Harry has dealt with pensives before and it might of told him how involed Ginny is with him and how much she love him.

But personaly I hate that ship. It ruined the ending.

basically she is just happy thst he hasnt pushed the ideas of them two out of his head
he broke up with her because he cared but she might have worrying that he thoguht he should never be withher or that he had frogotten with how they used to be what with DD dying and she has guessed and he did kinda hint, that he had some hhhhuge task
so he might have completely stopped thinking about her

simple why is there such a big discussion lol
at least we can say we didnt go too far off topic hehe

I tink she was having doudts about Harry steel loving her, when you're in love a simple comon gesture that means nothing can mean a lot to you, so maybe Harry was trying to hard not to look at her so much, and she was feeling like he didn't loved her anymore, even knowing that wasn't true. but when he kissed her back, and said he wouldn't be datting any more, she felt like sleeping on a clound, that made the day for her, and all the days to come too.

I think that Ginny was just happy that Harry still liked her and didn't think about dating anyone else while he was gone. It also showed that showed she was happy because she has found that Harry broke up with her just because he wanted to keep her safe.