Spoiler in book 1?

[Laura <metslvr19@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49224

"Enchanted" wrote:
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On Harry's first night at Hogwarts he has a dream 
<snip descriptio of dream- see below>
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.
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Directly from the source (US paperback p 130): "Perhaps Harry had 
eaten a bit too much, because he had a very strange dream.  He 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 didn't want to be in Slytherin; it 
got heavier and heavier; he tried to pull it off but it tightened 
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 shaking.

He rolled over and fell asleep again, and when he woke the next day, 
he didn't remember the dream at all."

There are a few ideas worth mentioning related to this dream:

1) I hate taking other people's ideas and not remembering where they 
came from...there was a fanfic posted awhile back that suggested that 
Voldemort somehow "forced" the dream on Harry, trying to persuade him 
to take up the Dark Side.  This is supported by Quirrel!Mort trying 
to persude Harry to join him with the whole "there is no good or 
evil, only power and those too weak too seek it" speech- think 
Spiderman.  (This is a great idea, kudos to whoever came up with it, 
but I seriously doubt that there were no clues/foreshadowing involved 
in the dream...)

2) This also brings up the conflict within Harry which is developed 
in CoS regarding which house he belongs in - a nice little set-up for 
Dumbledore's "choices over abilities" moral.

3)  Possible foreshadowing for "Heir of Slytherin" or "Harry related 
to Voldemort" thoery?

4)  Call this nit-picking if you will, but I find the use of the 
specific word "destiny" interesting- even if only because of so many 
theories surrounding prophecies.  It is Harry's "destiny" to belong 
in Slytherin.  This could be taken in many levels- Slytherin's 
bloodline, marriage into Slytherin's bloodline?, belonging in the 
House ( a boring litte "Harry should be more ambitious" idea), Harry 
should/will be more interested/involved with the Dark Arts, Harry 
should/will join the Dark Side....Trelewany's first prediction 
theories, anyone?

5)  Ah yes, then we have Malfoy laughing at him as he struggles...
(struggles under the power of the Dark Lord? hmm...) This could be 
because of Ron's info about the Malfoys and Slytherin, an echo of 
Harry's dislike/mistrust of Malfoy, or even intutive feelings about 
Malfoy's allegiances.

6)  NOW we get to the good part- Snape. =)  As this is Harry's dream, 
it might just be his immediate mistrust/dislike of Snape.  After all, 
Harry does think the pain in his scar is because of Snape (he doesn't 
know what's under Quirrell's turban).  Perhaps it is just dislike for 
Snape, or perhaps it is intutive feelings about how Snape was (is??) 
a DE.

7)  Now we get to the even better part- the cold, high laugh and 
burst of green light...hmm, where else have we seen THIS?  I would 
say that Snape laughing in the way that Harry remembers Voldemort 
laughing is probably just a show of Harry's immediate feelings about 
Snape.  So I won't go as far as to suggest that Snape killed the 
Potters, after all, Voldemort takes full credit for that.  (Imperio 
theories, anyone? *evil grin*) But this raises an interesting 
question- does Harry connect Snape and the green light simply because 
his subconcious knows this green light is connected to his parent's 
death and therefore Voldemort, and Harry's immediate reaction to 
Snape is that he is evil and therefore also connected with 
Voldemort?  Or was Harry remembering Snape along with that fateful 
night because Snape really WAS there?

(apologies for the somewhat long post)

-Laura
another young one =)