[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's Dreams

[MeriLeslie26 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27470

Cindy Wrote:
But the one dream I can't make sense of is Harry's dream in PoA 
before the Quiddich final in which Neville plays seeker and the 
Slytherins ride dragons.  Does anyone have a theory?  It would be odd 
indeed if the other dream sequences have hidden meaning, but that 
this one is just a plain old bad dream.

My response:
I took this dream as a combination of things.  Here Harry's subconscious is 
using events and people from his daily, conscious life and using them to 
display his fear.  Maybe as an outlet.  I think of it as one of those typical 
signed up for a class - never went - oh know I have a final - what am I going 
to do dreams.  I remember a particularly bad one of mine during final exams 
one semester as an undergrad.  I actually had a history final the next; 
therefore spent the whole day studying for history.  That night I dreamed 
that I had signed up for history, forgot about, and only remembered during 
finals that I had that class.  It took me a full five minutes to remember 
that I hadn't forgotten about the class, that I was doing well in it, and 
just needed to take the final.  I am sure/hopping that I am not the only one 
with these type of dreams.  

I though this dream of Harry's was a clever device of JKR to show us how 
worried Harry is in a very personal way to the reader.

Leslie


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