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

[lorien_eve]

No: HPFGUIDX 76629

It's funny that this thread came up, because I was listening to POA 
on my way home from work today and I was at chapter 3 "The Knight 
Bus."  When Stan asks Harry his name, Harry tells him his name is 
Neville Longbottom because that was the first name that came to his 
mind.  I thought it was funny that *Neville* of all people would be 
the one he thought of first--why not Ron?  But now I see why it might 
be significant. 

Lorien_Eve


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mhershey2001" 
<mhersheybar at h...> wrote:
> --- 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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