[HPforGrownups] Re: Flowerbed and Dumbledore's Flint (OOP)

[Barb]

No: HPFGUIDX 49832


"bluesqueak <pipdowns at etchells0.demon.co.uk>" <pipdowns at etchells0.demon.co.uk> wrote:
No, no no. Harry [or Dudley] is lying in a flower bed face *up* because someone or something has hit him in the face. This has made him fall *backwards* into the flowerbed, landing on his back with face up.

 

Me:

I'm finding it rather funny that we're so desperate at this point that we're taking the tiny morsels that have been tossed to us and finding a million different ways to interpret them. ;)  The first thing I thought of is that someone leaked to JKR my fic (or one of the zillions of fics) about Harry's fifth year beginning with his spending the summer gardening.  It seemed, with this image stuck in my mind, that JKR obviously had him flat on his back because he had collapsed with exhaustion after a day's work in the garden (especially if it was the hottest day of the summer), and that the next thing we are likely to read is a description of Petunia screeching like mad about his crushing her precious flowers...(I didn't write that--this isn't a fanfic post, believe me! <g>)  

 

Well, maybe not the next thing.  I think JKR will probably have the usual sort of recap of what's happened to Harry before, the fact that he's a famous wizard, yada yada yada.  But the next ACTION described HAS to be Petunia noticing him in the flower bed and throwing a fit, IMHO... I will also go out on a limb and suggest that the day the book starts, it is July 30, and that the next day will be his fifteenth birthday.  There.  Now I will get ready to have egg on my face on June 21 when I'm shown to be dreadfully wrong...<g>

 

"bluesqueak <pipdowns at etchells0.demon.co.uk>" <pipdowns at etchells0.demon.co.uk> wrote:

The soon to be notorious Dumbledore quote:

"what I should have told you five years ago. . . . I'm going to tell you everything."

Whether 'five years ago' is a Flint or not, the more important speculation is that these lines ...
... are of course, said to Harry in the hospital, at the end of term...

... and will be the last lines in OoP. ;0)


Me:

Don't know about that.  Sticking with her usual book structure, I'm guessing this would be in the penultimate chapter, the final one dealing with the usual leaving feast and train ride home.  I do expect the ending to be bittersweet, and that the above conversation comes after the death that was very hard for her to write.  (Is Dumbledore, in the above passage, possibly feeling guilty about that death?  Gah.  So little material, so much speculation...)

 

Waiting eagerly for the summer solstice,

 

--Barb

 


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