Kissing gate

[kkersey_austin]

> Goddlefrood:
>
> I'm all for reading more into the Potter books than is there but 
> in this instance I think it's just a common graveyard accoutrement.


It still works as foreshadowing even if it is a common graveyard
accoutrement, IMO. If it was *not* something that would normally be
found at a graveyard it would be, well, I don't know, bad writing. JKR
calls attention to this detail especially in the last sentence of
chapter 16. In the next chapter, where they actually go through the
gate, it is just called a "gate". The mood is completely different at
that point in the narrative.

If kissing gate as foreshadowing is a stretch for you, you probably
won't like this bit either: in Greek mythology, one of Hermes jobs is
to lead dead souls into the underworld. Hermione not only accompanies
Harry into (and out of!) the graveyard, but is the one who pushes open
the gate. 

Well, stuff like that, as a reader you can take it or leave it, as you
like.

Elisabet