Two questions..

dherreid at colortechnology.com dherreid at colortechnology.com
Tue Jan 16 02:49:08 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 9321

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Amy " <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Peg said:
> 
> >It's actually an even better allusion, as I've mentioned before, to 
> Act V,
> >Scene 3 of Richard III, where the ghosts of his murdered victims 
> appear to
> >curse him and give comfort to his enemy.
> 
> Well spotted!  Forgot that one!  JKR has to have been remembering 
> it.  Time to go read RIII, which I've seen but never read.


Thanks for your ideas Amy and Peg! Although the scenes are remarkably 
similar Macbeth is just a muggle and should have been surprised at the 
appearance of his victims. To my mind Voldemorte should not have been 
un-nerved by what he should have known to be mere smokey echoes.






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