[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: jkrowling.com

[W. F. Zimmerman]

I thought about including this in my UNOFFICIAL HALF-BLOOD PRINCE UPDATE
http://www.wfzimmerman.com/portal.php?what=link
<http://www.wfzimmerman.com/portal.php?what=link&item=20040926161003721>
&item=20040926161003721 but the fact that this slip of paper is next to the
"Rubbish" bin gives me pause.


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "jmoses22002"
<jmoses22002 at y...> wrote:
>  Next to the rubbish bin, on jkrowling.com, there is a piece of paper 
> in which you can make out the words,
> 
>             Harry.....
>             a large...
>             is dead...
>             my fath...
>             swallow...
>             there.....
> 
>     Does anyone know what this might be in reference to?

There's also the word "nothing."

I think it may be an early version of part of "Hermione's Secret,"
chapter 21 of PoA. It's the part after Harry and Hermione have taken
Buckbeak into the Forest and they've seen themselves go down into the
Whomping Willow.  Hermione asks Harry why the Dementors didn't get
Sirius, and Harry explains about the large silver something Patronus
and how he thought he'd seen his Dad.  If you read that passage (about
a page worth of text), almost all those words are there, though not
quite in that order.  Mostly Harry says "dad," but eventually he does
say "father."  The only word that doesn't seem to match at all is
"nothing," but at one point it says "Harry didn't say anything," which
*might* once have been "Harry said nothing," right?

The passage doesn't seem to come close to anything else in any of the
other books.  There was a discussion in The Leaky Cauldron I'm
remembering this from, and people were searching their copies.

Since it's in the rubbish section, and it's very similar to that PoA
passage, I figure it's meant to be a thrown-away earlier draft of it.
So, it probably doesn't mean anything -- it's just rubbish!

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