yet more evidence of Ron's prescience

[Amy]

No: HPFGUIDX 9289

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Joywitch " <joym999 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> > Peg Kerr said:
> > 
> > <<<Steve or anyone else?  Do we have a list of Ron's true 
> "predictions"
> > anywhere?  He's doing a lot better than Prof. Trelawney.>>>
> > 
> > This is what I have so far in the (draft) Ron Weasley FAQ, taken 
> from
> > discussions here (so there may be other examples):-
> > 

> On the other hand, this may just be a device JKR is using to tease 
> us.  When you read through the books for the umpteenth time, you 
> notice all sorts of foreshadowing.  For example, GOF, chapter 21, 
> which takes place right after the first task.  During a party in the 
> Gryffindor common room, the other students have just opened Harrys 
> egg:
> 
> "It was someone being tortured!" said Neville, who had gone very 
> white and spilled sausage rolls all over the floor.  "Youre going to 
> have to fight the Cruciatus Curse!"
> 

This is another kind of foreshadowing, too.  Just as Seamus, 
who's terrified of banshees, thinks it's a banshee, Neville hears it 
the way he does because of his personal knowledge of the Cruciatus.  I 
didn't pick up on it until my second reading, after the Pensieve.  
Great characterization on JKR's part.

Amy Z


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"Very haunted up here, isn't it?" said Ron, with the air 
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