A strange silver instrument

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 86406


> Adi wrote:

> > Hi,
> >   In Order of Phoenix, the Eye of the Snake chapter, when Harry 
> > reveals his 'dream', Dumbledore uses a strange silver instrument. 
> > What was that? And there is something about 'in essence divided'. 
> > What was the thing whose essence was divided? 

Berit wrote: 

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I won't speculate what this means, but from these clues I'm sure the 
> silver instrument told Dumbledore more than we think it did. And I 
> think it has something to do with Harry's connection to the 
Slytherin 
> house and its heir, Voldemort. And in what way exactly Voldemort 
made 
> him his EQUAL, making the prophecy state there can only be one of 
> them... They're the same, but in essence divided... We'll know 
> eventually :-)


Berit replies:

Just an interesting little detail I forgot in my previous post on 
Harry's link and connection to the heir of Slytherin and to the 
Slytherin house:

In the duelling scene in CoS, Snape deliberately forces Harry to 
reveal he is a parselmouth. Why would Snape be so interested in 
knowing this? And more importantly; why did he suspect Harry was one? 
There is no evidence to suggest Snape knew about the incident in the 
Muggle Zoo where Harry talked to the Boa constrictor from Brazil... 
Harry hadn't even told Hermione and Ron about it. So there must be 
another reason Snape puts two and two together and wants to check if 
his equation is turns out to be correct: To find out if Harry's a 
parselmouth. Obviosusly Snape's guess was right: CoS p.146 UK 
Edition: "Snape too, was looking at Harry in an unexpected way: it 
was a shrewd and calculating look..." Veeeery interesting :-)

Berit