Voices from the past (Re: Snape and the Potters)

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47206

Carol comments;

<< I agree that this dream could be part prophetic, but I still have to 
wonder why the mention of Malfoy transforming into Snape, who laughs a 
high-pitched laugh.  I never thought twice about it when I read it the first 
or even the second time, but now I just can't believe that JKR didn't have 
something up her sleeve with that one. >>

Now I'm looking at that dream as an exercise in free-association with a 
memory twist and a piece of psychic awareness sneaking in. 

At this point in the book, Harry has next to no knowlege of the wizarding 
world -- but already he knows enough to be wary of Slytherin house. 

Hadrid, who he trusts, has already told him that it is the house of evil 
wizards, that the one who murdered his parents came from there.

The most unpleasant boy since his cousin Dudley has identified himself as 
being sure to go there. (In Madame Malkin's.)

The Sorting Hat threatened to send HIM there! (That upset Harry a lot!)

And the nastiest, meanest-looking teacher at the Head Table, the one who is 
glaring at him past Quirrel's turban turns out to be *another* one of them!

The dream is a reprise of all the Slytherins he knows about, plus the Sorting 
Hat trying to put him there. The memory twist provided the high, cold 
laughter and the burst of green light from the scene of his Voldemort's 
attack ("They say that You-Know-Who was one of them..."). And the psychic 
leap was to drag Quirrell's turban into the mix. The turban was just 
something odd that had caught his eye at the feast, that his dreaming mind 
pulled it in to take the Sorting Hat's place and urge him to transfer into 
Slytherin is something that no direct association can account for at that 
particular point in the story.

Plus, he HAD probably just eaten the richest, most lavish dinner of his 
life...

-JOdel