[HPforGrownups] The Clock Says 'Mortal Peril'....ooowww my stomach hurts.

[yr awen]

No: HPFGUIDX 42813

Heather wrote:

I  meant to ask this the first time I saw it here, but
forgot, and this just reminded me. Do we know for sure
if "death" is on the clock? In my GoF, it mentions
"home", "school", "work", "traveling", "lost",
"hospital", "prison", and, on the number twelve
position, "mortal peril". I always figured that "dead"
would occupy the number twelve position if it was
there, and concluded that it must not be.<<<<<<<<<

My GoF, first-edition American hardcover, stops at 'mortal peril' too. (Peers around at the British listees.) Well? Is this another instance of crappy American sub-editing?

Now that you've listed the various situations in which the Weasleys could find themselves, the clock -- even aside from the Mortal Peril thing -- seems incredibly, well... It seems like the invention of someone who is living through a time when the family is in danger. Prison? Hospital? Mortal Peril? Lost? None of these things can *possibly* be good. While it's a good thing to know where your loved ones are, even if it leads to tension and fear, one has to wonder what the Weasleys are/were up to...

HF.
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