The Clock Says 'Mortal Peril'....ooowww my stomach hurts.

purple_801999 purple_801999 at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 17 00:41:06 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 42799




bboy_mn wrote-
> Certainly, Rowlings doesn't just throw bits and pieces into her 
story at random. It seems like every little detail is meticulously 
research and meticulously placed in the story, so certainly, the 
clock location for 'Mortal Peril' will be seen again.

> 2.) When you buy a clock like that, at first, it seems pretty cool,
> but if you are Mrs. Weasley sitting at home night after night 
staring at the clock, just waiting for one of the hands to move 
to 'mortal peril', I would think it would drive you nuts.
> 
> Then, how nuts is she going to get when one of the hands does move 
to
> 'moral peril'. She home alone, everyone is off at school or off
> fighting the war, and see is sitting there watching the hands of all
> her loved ones moving to mortal peril, and his helpless to do
> anything. So what can she do, but sit there waiting and watching (or
> expecting) them to move to Death one by one. Who needs that kind of
> stress? I would think it would be better to not know until after 
the fact.
> 
> On the other hand, she and the clock may see mortal peril that is 
not
> obvious to the person who is in mortal peril, and may somehow be 
able
> to communicate that to them.
> 
> In any event, it sounds like a good way to give yourself an ulcer.
> 

Exactly what I was thinking. I wonder if Ginny's hand moved to mortal 
peril when she was in the Chamber of Secrets? That was pretty close 
to if not completely mortal peril. And what about the hand that says 
lost? What good does it do to know they're lost but you can't find 
them? That's why their lost! Great now I'm getting an ulcer.

-Olivia Grey, who can now post with impunity. No, not really, but it 
made me feel good to think it.






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