Spoiler in book 1?

[Erica <cymru1ca@yahoo.ca>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49221

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Enchanted" <enchanted at p...> 
wrote:
> I'm off for a few more days so I thought I'd pick up book 1 since 
it has
> been ages since I read the first book in the series. I have found 
a few
> interesting points, most of them have been discussed online, but 
one point
> hasn't as far as I can recall.
> 
> On Harry's first night at Hogwarts he has a dream that he's wearing
> Quirrell's turban and it's telling him that he "should transfer to 
Slytherin
> at once, because it is your destiny to be in Slytherin."
> When Harry tells the turban that he doesn't want to be in 
Slytherin, it gets
> heavier and heavier. He sees Malfoy and Snape in his dream and 
they are both
> laughing at him as the turban gets tighter and heavier and very 
painful.
> This made me pause and wonder exactly what does this mean? If I 
didn't know
> that Voldemort is living in Quirrell's body and his face is 
visible under
> the turban I wouldn't have made anything of this, as I did not 
make anything
> of it the first time I read the book, but this puts a strange 
twist in the
> story now, because I know exactly what is under Quirrell's turban.
> 

I don't think it is a spoiler so much as foreshadowing.  Harry 
doesn't have any pain associated with his scar before arriving at 
Hogwarts (at least that's my recollection, I could be wrong :D ).  
It's during Harry's first start-of-term feast that he feels pain:

"It happened very suddenly. The hooked nose teacher looked past 
Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes - and a sharp, hot pain 
shot across the scar on Harry's forehead"

In reading this I actually thought that it *was* Snape inflicting 
the 'headache' on Harry (I'm a bit slow on the uptack :D) and it 
wasn't until later (hearing JKR explain it during an interview) that 
I was made aware that it was Voldemort inflicting the headache 
(Quirrell had his back to Harry while he was talking to Snape so 
that Voldemort was facing Harry ...)
Ahh, misdirection ;)

~Erica