OoP, Neville & Harry and their 'connection' - foreshadowing

[mhershey2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 76569

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Vanessa Heggie <vheggie at y...> 
wrote:
> Ooh, now we have three connections
> 
> 1)	my original comment about Harry's choice of secret
> identity on the night bus
> 
> 2)	Annemehr said:
> >Yes, there is at least one. In GoF, Ch. 31, after
> Harry had seen 
> >the trial of the DEs who had tortured the Longbottoms
> he is lying 
> >awake in bed relating Neville's plight to his own.
> 
> 3)	and Julie/farmcatnow said
> >There seem to be A LOT of Harry/Neville references
> now that I am re-
> >reading the books. One that strikes me (because I am
> 1/2 way through 
> >PoA) When he is worried about quiddich, Harry has a
> dream where he 
> >forgot to go to the game and they replaced him with
> Neville.
> 
> A fourth, and one which may be very significant, is
> that the sorting hat also took a long time to deal
> with Neville, in PS, just as it did with Harry.
> 
> Perhaps we should gather these somewhere...
> 
> Vanessa

And here is another, from GoF:  After the DADA lesson in which 
Moody/Crouch demonstrated the Unforgivable Curses, Harry lays in bed 
thinking, and JKR mentions that if Harry had been paying attention, 
the lack of snoring from Neville's bed would have indicated that not 
everyone in the dorm was sleeping.

Mhershey

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