Keyboarding Practice
Mrs. Wilson's Very Special Harry Potter Drills!

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                    Key each paragraph once, single spaced, in the box provided.
                    Tab from one box to the next.
 

Book 3
The original works of U.S. Harry Potter illustrator Mary GrandPre will be featured through January 1, 2006 at Artinsights Gallery in Reston, Virginia, and will then become a permanent addition to the gallery's offerings. The gallery will donate a portion of the proceeds from sales of both original HP illustrations and limited edition prints to First Star, a children's charity that assists helping of abuse and neglect.

NAME MEANING FOR GINERVA WEASLEY

Birth name: Ginevra Molly Weasley
First name meaning: Ginevra=Italian form of Guinevere, "fair one;" also Italian for the Swiss city of Geneva
Last name meaning: see Weasley

FAMILY & FRIENDS

Birthdate: August 11, 1981
Ancestry: Pure-bloo
Mother: Molly (Prewett) Weasley
Father: Arthur Weasley, Head of Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, Ministry of Magic
Grandparents: Grandfather who gave Ron the chessboard
Aunts, Uncles: Uncle Bilius, who saw a grim and died a week later
Cousins: Mafalda, a cousin who never made it into the books
Siblings: Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, and Ron.
Additional notes: Seventh child and only daughter (PS6, CS3). Ginny is the first Weasley girl in several generations
Childhood: Raised by loving, protective parents
Location of childhood home: "The Burrow," near Ottery St. Catchpole, Devon
Pet: Arnold (Pygmy Puff)



General Profile of Ginny

Ginny Weasley is the youngest child and only daughter of Arthur and Molly Weasley. She is currently attending Hogwarts; she entered in 1992 and was sorted into Gryffindor. She and Hermione Granger seem to be close friends -- each has confided in the other about matters that they've kept quiet from Hermione's other close friends, Harry Potter and Ginny's brother Ron. Ginny is very determined; since her brothers wouldn't let her play Quidditch with them when she was little, she broke into the family broom shed and took out each of their brooms in turn when they weren't looking, starting at the age of six.

She was never caught by Fred, George, or Ron, who were startled by this information after she got on the Gryffindor team at the age of fourteen (OP26). Harry has only seen her Seek in one match: Gryffindor-Hufflepuff, which Gryffindor lost despite her capture of the Snitch -- but was quite impressed by her performance and told her so. For her part, she plans to try out for Chaser in her fifth year instead, as she says she prefers goal-scoring to seeking.

Neville Longbottom is a friend of Ginny's; he took her to the Yule Ball after Hermione turned him down (GF22). Apparently Ginny was never exactly Neville's girlfriend; she accepted his invitation because she liked him, and because she couldn't go to the ball otherwise, being only in third year at the time.

To her credit, she did not consider repudiating Neville as her escort when Ron tried to set Harry up with her for the ball, although she had been very taken with Harry from their first meeting. (For his part, Neville was picked up by Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad a year and a half later because he tried to interfere when they dragged Ginny to Umbridge's office (OP32).