Some observations and inquiries

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 3246

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Lisa Rourke" <lmrourke at s...> wrote:
> On to the observation...with Halloween approaching, I was thinking 
about
> that date and the fact that it was the day that Harry's parents 
were killed
> by Voldemort. I'm sure somebody has probably noted this but things 
always
> seem to happen at Hogwarts on this date also.  In PS/SS the 
mountain troll
> attacks Hermione on Halloween.  In CoS the Chamber is opened and 
Harry hears
> the basilisk in the pipes in the wall on Halloween.  In PoA Sirius 
Black
> slashes the portrait of the Fat Lady and in GoF Harry is named the 
Fourth
> Champion after his name is spit out of the Goblet of Fire.  
Interesting.
> 
Very perceptive, Lisa.  I dont think anyone else caught that one.

the chapter
> in PoA where Professor Lupin is trying to teach Harry how to 
produce a
> patronus. Chapter 12 pg. 240-241   What stuck in my mind was the 
part
> ....."...then came a new voice, a man's voice, shouting, 
panicking-"Lily,
> take Harry and go!  It's Him!  Go! Run!  I'll hold him off-".   And 
Harry
> says "I heard my dad"  "That's the first time I've ever heard 
him-"   I
> always took that at face value.  Harry heard his father.  But how 
does he
> know the voice he heard really belong to his father?  We know the 
female
> voice is that of his mother, she's even referred to by name.  But 
Harry
> assumes the man's voice is his father's because he knows that they 
were
> together when they died.  I think it would be just like JKR to make 
us
> believe this by having Harry state it as fact.  I suppose one could 
argue
> that he actually saw his father and heard him speak in GoF when he 
came out
> of the wand but under the circumstances I don't he had time to 
compare the
> voices he heard.  I just thought this would make an interesting 
twist and
> lend credence to the theory that maybe somebody else was there 
trying to
> protect them or warn them.
> 
This might also help explain the whole why-did-James-and-Lily-come-
out-of-the-wand-in-the-wrong-order problem, although Im not sure 
how.  Anyone want to take a stab?

--Joywitch