List: Off-Hand remarks that will mean something in future books

[pickle_jimmy]

No: HPFGUIDX 68577

Throughout the books there have been many an off-hand remark that has 
turned out to be a clue to some future event/thing - My favourite has 
to be the Room of Requirement (I was truely impressed when this came 
up I can tell you).

So, I started to think of other things that may have a hidden meaning 
and was wondering if we could get together a comprehensive list - 
thing's to look out for (and speculate on) in Books 6 & 7.

Here's a few I came up with, I am going to have to re-read the other 
4 books to find more that are yet to be brought to light.

Pickle Jimmy

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"Idiot boy!" snarled Snape, clearing the spilled potion away with one 
wave of his wand. "I suppose you added the porcupine quills before 
taking the cauldron off the fire?"
Neville whimpered as boils started to pop up all over his nose.
"Take him up to the hospital wing," Snape spat at Seamus. Then he 
rounded on Harry and Ron, who had been working next to Neville.
"You -- Potter -- why didn't you tell him not to add the quills? 
Thought he'd make you look good if he got it wrong, did you? That's 
another point you've lost for Gryffindor."

Q: Why is it that Snape picks mainly on Harry and Neville - the 
prophecy boys. Is there something more to this?


And while Harry was sure he had never heard the name T. M. Riddle 
before, it still seemed to mean something to him, almost as though 
Riddle was a friend he'd had when he was very small, and had half 
forgotten. But this was absurd. He'd never had friends before
Hogwarts, Dudley had made sure of that.

Q: Is Harry related to the Riddles? Or, did he just have a Riddle as 
a friend in Godric's Hollow?


The wealthy man who owned the Riddle House these days neither lived 
there nor put it to any use; they said in the village that he kept it 
for "tax reasons," though nobody was very clear what these might be.  
The wealthy owner continued to pay Frank to do the gardening, however.

Q: Is there something more to the wealthy man?


Neville had already stretched out his hand, into which his mother 
dropped an empty Drooble's Best Blowing Gum wrapper.
'Very nice, dear,' said Neville's grandmother in a falsely cheery 
voice, patting his mother on the shoulder.
But Neville said quietly, Thanks, Mum.'
His mother tottered away, back up the ward, humming to herself. 
Neville looked around at the others, his expression defiant, as 
though daring them to laugh, but Harry did not think he'd ever found 
anything less funny in his life.
'Well, we'd better get back,' sighed Mrs Longbottom, drawing on long 
green gloves. 'Very nice to have met you all. Neville, put that 
wrapper in the bin, she must have given you enough of them to paper 
your bedroom by now.'

Q: Is Neville's mum more "with it" than we know, or is this just a 
sign of Neville's affection.


Snape pulled out his wand from an inside pocket of his robes and 
Harry tensed in his chair, but Snape merely raised the wand to his 
temple and placed its tip into the greasy roots of his hair. When he 
withdrew it, some silvery substance came away, stretching from temple 
to wand like a thick gossamer strand, which broke as he pulled the 
wand away from it and fell gracefully into the Pensieve, where it 
swirled silvery-white, neither gas nor liquid. Twice more, Snape 
raised the wand to his temple and deposited the silvery substance 
into the stone basin, then, without offering any explanation of his 
behaviour, he picked up the Pensieve carefully, removed it to a shelf 
out of their way and returned to face Harry with his wand held at the 
ready.

Q: What are the 2 other memories we don't see?


Harry remained quite still for a moment, then hurled the mirror back 
into the trunk where it shattered. He had been convinced, for a 
whole, shining minute, that he was going to see Sirius, talk to him 
again...

Q: will we see the mirror in use at all?


`Well, I've lost most of my possessions,' said Luna serenely. 'People 
take them and hide them, you know. But as it's the last night, I 
really do need them back, so I've been putting up signs.'
She gestured towards the noticeboard, upon which, sure enough, she 
had pinned a list of all her missing books and clothes, with a plea 
for their return.
An odd feeling rose in Harry; an emotion quite different from the 
anger and grief that had filled him since Sirius's death. It was a 
few moments before he realised that he was feeling sorry for Luna.
`How come people hide your stuff?' he asked her, frowning.
`Oh... well...' she shrugged. `I think they think I'm a bit odd, you 
know. Some people call me "Loony" Lovegood, actually.'
Harry looked at her and the new feeling of pity intensified rather 
painfully.
`That's no reason for them to take your things,' he said flatly. 
D'you want help finding them?'
'Oh, no,' she said, smiling at him. `They'll come back, they always 
do in the end. It was just that I wanted to pack tonight.'

Q: Does this seem odd to anyone else? Is Luna just Loonier than we 
take her for, or is there more to her things just going missing and 
then mysteriously returning?


'Yes, it was rather horrible,' said Luna conversationally. `I still 
feel very sad about it sometimes. But I've still got Dad. And anyway, 
it's not as though I'll never see Mum again, is it?'
`Er - isn't it?' said Harry uncertainly.
She shook her head in disbelief.
`Oh, come on. You heard them, just behind the veil, didn't you?'
`You mean...'
`In that room with the archway. They were just lurking out of sight, 
that's all. You heard them.'
They looked at each other. Luna was smiling slightly. Harry did not 
know what to say, or to think; Luna believed so many extraordinary 
things... yet he had been sure he had heard voices behind the veil, 
too.

Q: What more can I say... there has to be more come of this.