Cross-book Foreshadowing

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 29102

Luke wrote:

> "Second-time foreshadowing" was basically a type of 
> misdirection, where the reader would be presented with a small 
> mystery of some sort and caused through whatever means to form a 
> hasty assumption about the solution to that mystery.  By the end of 
> that book, the hasty assumption would be prove to be false and upon 
> subsequent readings (hence the (stupid) name, "second-time"), the 
> reader would see that an alternate and correct interpretation was 
> available for that mystery.  

<snip explanation of cross-book>

OK, now I get it.  Upon further reflection, I really, really think I 
have an example of cross-book second-time foreshadowing this time.  

In PS/SS, when the kids are in the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid, 
Harry talks to Firenze:

"If you're going to be cursed forever, death's better, isn't it?"
"It is," Firenze agreed, "unless all you need is to stay alive long 
enough to drink something else -- something that will bring you back 
to full strength and power -- something that will mean you can never 
die.  Mr. Potter, do you know what is hidden in the school at this 
very moment?"
"The Sorcerer's Stone!  Of course -- the Elixir of Life!"

Upon first reading, this looks like the "something" to drink to 
restore full power is the Elixir of Life, and JKR gives us a direct 
hint that this is the case.  But this passage is also foreshadowing 
of the potion of bone, flesh and blood potion in GoF -- second-time 
foreshadowing from Book 1 to Book 4.  What do you say, Professor 
Luke?  Can I raise my arms in triumph?

By the way, I said earlier that Scabbers' missing toe in PS/SS is 
cross-book second-time foreshadowing.  But now I can't find any pre-
PoA reference to the rat's missing toe in PS/SS.  Did I imagine this?

Cindy (scurrying off to scan CoS to look for more second-time 
foreshadowing)