Cross-book Foreshadowing (WAS Snape and Harry's first meeting)
Cindy C.
cynthiaanncoe at home.com
Sun Nov 11 21:25:42 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 29079
David wrote:
> > Ever since reading GOF, I have paticularly liked this passage
> > [about Harry's scar hurting him when Quirrel and Snape are
talking--
> > ed.], because it is one of the few red herrings known to run over
> > more than one book. (IMO, nearly all the red herrings in HP are
in-
> > book devices - I would love to hear of other multi-book examples.
>
And Luke wrote:
> So at the moment, there are *no* cross-book, second-time
> foreshadowing in the books so far that I am aware of, and I
> personally think many people are too hasty to guess that there will
> be in future books, given this lack of precedent.
I hope I am understanding the discussion properly, but I thought we
had two more instances of cross-book second-time foreshadowing. I
think we learn about Scabbers' missing toe in PS/SS, which comes up
again in PoA. I also think that we are told repeatedly in PoA and
GoF that you can't apparate into or out of Hogwarts. I'd also
suggest Sirius' motorbike coming up in PS/SS and PoA, but since I
can't figure out what that might be foreshadowing, I can hardly
nominate it as a case of cross-book second-time foreshadowing.
Would any of those qualify?
Cindy
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