Harry's first legilimant dream (legilimant?)

phluxist phluxist at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 20 02:09:52 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 78065

Yeah, so ligilimant, as being under the influence of legilimancy, 
but I digress...

I've been having a lot of fun rereading the first four books under 
the new info imparted in book five, mostly that of mind-reading, and 
something interesting in the first book caught my attention. During 
Harry's first night at Hogwarts, he has a really interesting dream:

"(Harry) was wearing Professor Quirrell's turban, which kept talking 
to him, telling him he must transfer to Slytherin at once, because 
it was his destiny. Harry told the turban he didnt want to be in 
Slytherin; it got heavier and heavier; he tried to pull it off but 
it tighened painfully- and there was Malfoy, laughing at him as he 
struggled with it- then Malfoy turned into the hook-nosed teacher, 
Snape, whose laugh became high and cold- there was a burst of green 
light and harry woke, sweating and skaking."
 
Mybe this is just stream-of-consciousness dreaming, but the 
connections between Malfoy, Snape, and Voldemort's killing curse is 
very interesting. Maybe snape played a first-hand role in the deaths 
of Lily and James?

Just a thought,
Phluxist







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