And what about Madame Marsh ?(was Regarding Bill)

[iris_ft at yahoo.fr]

No: HPFGUIDX 87255

HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, carolynwhite2 at a... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Berit Jakobsen" 
> <belijako at o...> wrote:
> (snip)
> > Rowling rarely, possibly never, mentions a name that doesn't 
turn 
> out 
> > to play a (larger) role in the story later on. > (snip)
> 
> Carolyn:
> Another one that I have spotted is Madame Marsh. In PoA she is a 
> passenger on the Knight Bus, and gets off at Abergavenny. In CoS, 
she 
> is on the Knight Bus again when the trio take it back to Hogwarts, 
> although its not specified where she gets off. Is she shadowing 
> Harry, and if so, who's side is she on ?
> 
> If we follow iris_ft's interesting recent analysis of the 
importance 
> of 'Madames' in Harry's life, perhaps she has some important role 
to 
> play in the future ?

Thanks for finding my analysis interesting, Carolyn. And thanks for 
reminding me the existence of poor Madam Marsh: I simply had 
forgotten her. If we admit that "Madam" in JKR's series 
means "Fata", then we can say that Madam Marsh "rules" two important 
moments in Harry's life. She's appears when Harry "meets" Sirius for 
the first time. The Knight Bus rescues him just after his encounter 
with Padfoot, and during the journey, Sirius's photograph blinks on 
the front page of the Daily Prophet: Harry doesn't know yet, but he 
has found his godfather. She's also there when Harry says leaves 
Sirius. He doesn't know yet, but he's about to loose him. Sirius 
enters and leaves Harry's life exactly in the same quick and furtive 
way. Every time, the Knight Bus takes Harry aboard. Every time, 
Madam Marsh is there, and she is sick. Her name and her state of 
health are curiously the exact metaphor of what Harry is feeling. In 
PoA, he doesn't know what will happen to him because he blew his 
aunt Marge. In OotP, he doesn't know what will happen to him when he 
is back at Hogwarts, and what Snape prepares for his Occlumency 
lessons. 

Two Knuts,
Amicalement,

Iris