Let It Be Known

[mlle_bienvenu]

No: HPFGUIDX 78436

Mlle:

Actually, I believe JKR answered the question of 'is it all a dream?' 
in an interview she did. (sorry I can't remember which one, anyone 
want do give me a Point Me?) Her reply was that it wasn't all a dream.

Mlle Bienvenu


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severusbook4" 
<severusbook4 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shirley" 
<shirley2allie at h...> 
> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severusbook4" 
> > <severusbook4 at y...> wrote:
> > > ADD IN:
> > > book 7: Harry wakes up at the Dursleys, still 11 years old.
> > > 
> > > Severus
> > 
> > Shirley:
> > That would be *too* weird!  Not to mention, very "Dallas" (and I 
> > didn't even watch that show).
> > 
> > Come to think of it, it would be pretty sad, too.
> > 
> > What made you come up with that one?
> > 
> > Shirley
> 
> Snape here:
> 
> The first book had Harry dreaming of being free, and then he was 
for 
> part of the time.  He even woke up the next day thinking that he 
had 
> had the most wonderful dream of being a wizard. 
> 
> The other books seem to have some dream reference in them at one 
> time or another, in CoS it is the Tom Riddle memory sequence, Harry 
> had found himself on his bed lying back after he was through with 
> the memory.  In PoA doesn't he have a dream of the grim (AKA 
> Sirius)? And Ootp his dreams are the source of much pain and 
> eventually the cause of Sirius' death. In GoF the book opens with 
> Harry dreaming the death of a muggle, but he didn't see it through 
> the eyes of LV, it was as if he was standing there with everyone 
> else. He saw Peter, the old man, Nagini, and LV as Peter turned the 
> chair around.  HMMM? I thought he was seeing through LV's eyes for 
> the rest of the book. Kind of interesting, never noticed that 
before.
> 
> The reason I came up with that one is, truthfully, it just came to 
> me.  If you have ever seen the movie Wisdom with Emilio Esteves and 
> Demi Moore, the whole movie is a imagined reality and at the end 
> after everone is killed, the main character sits up in his bed and 
> starts his day, just as the movie started.
> 
> And yes, I think it would be very sad, but an ending that no one 
> would see coming.  But I really hope it doesn't go that way, I like 
> to think that JKR's reality in her books is real in the books, not 
a 
> fevered dream of a child that is caught in a hopeless living 
> situation.
> 
> Severus