The Easter Egg

[jksunflower2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 73648

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, IAmLordCassandra at a... wrote:
> As always, sorry if this has been discussed to death.  If I read 
every thread 
> I wouldn't have to say this all the time...but I barely have time 
to read the 
> one's that interest me lately XP 
> 
> Anyway, I was reading Chapter 29 in OoP...well, listening to it, 
actually, 
> and this passage caught my eye/ear.  
> 
> (pg. 654. US ed)  
> 
> 'She handed him a handsome choclate egg decorated with small, iced 
Snitches 
> and, according to the packaging, containing a bag of Fizzing 
Whizbees. Harry 
> looked at it for a moment, then, to his horror, felt a hard lump 
rise in his 
> throat. 
> 
> "Are you okay, Harry?" asked Ginny quietly 
> 
> "Yeah, I'm fine," said Harry gruffly. The lump in his throat was 
painful. He 
> did not understand why an Easter egg would have made him feel like 
this.' 
> 
> 
> My first thought was the snitches made him think of his father 
showing off in 
> Snape's memory, but I'd think so obvious an answer would be 
obvious to Harry 
> as well.  As do some other reasons I can think up.  
> 
> So...anyone have any thoughts? 
> 
> ~Cassie~ 

> As always, sorry if this has been discussed to death.  If I read 
every thread 
> I wouldn't have to say this all the time...but I barely have time 
to read the 
> one's that interest me lately XP 
> 
> Anyway, I was reading Chapter 29 in OoP...well, listening to it, 
actually, 
> and this passage caught my eye/ear.  
> 
> (pg. 654. US ed)  
> 
> 'She handed him a handsome choclate egg decorated with small, iced 
Snitches 
> and, according to the packaging, containing a bag of Fizzing 
Whizbees. Harry 
> looked at it for a moment, then, to his horror, felt a hard lump 
rise in his 
> throat. 
> 
> "Are you okay, Harry?" asked Ginny quietly 
> 
> "Yeah, I'm fine," said Harry gruffly. The lump in his throat was 
painful. He 
> did not understand why an Easter egg would have made him feel like 
this.' 
> 
> 
> My first thought was the snitches made him think of his father 
showing off in 
> Snape's memory, but I'd think so obvious an answer would be 
obvious to Harry 
> as well.  As do some other reasons I can think up.  
> 
> So...anyone have any thoughts? 
> 
> ~Cassie~ 



Toad:
I love this topic.  Snipping from post 66879: 

  > snip 
> > Something about the snitch and romance being linked has 
been 
> > screaming in my head for the past 24 hours. James 
doodling the 
> > snitch beside Lily's initials and then trying to impress the 
girls 
> > (including Lily-or maybe just Lily) beside the lake by throwing 
> the 
> > snitch up in the air and catching it. On page 655 of the US 
> version 
> > (chapter 29) Ginny delivers to Harry a chocolate egg 
decorated 
> with 
> > small icing snitches. He unwraps and eats part of the egg, 
and so 
> > does Ginny. Something about that just lept off the page at 
me. 
> > Could this be a symbol of love between the couples? Are we 
to 
> > believe that Ginny and Harry could be experiencing romance 
in the 
> > future? Of course, being a strong Harry/Ginny shipper I could 
be 
> > reading more into this than there is. 
> snip 
> > Toad  
 
I found some interesting info on the origins and symbolism behind 
Easter eggs at this site:
http://www.emmanuelfellowship.org/easter/secular/easteregg.html

This caught my attention: "One legend concerns the Virgin Mary. It 
tells of the time Mary gave eggs to the soldiers at the cross. She 
entreated them to be less cruel and she wept. The tears of Mary fell 
upon the eggs, spotting them with dots of brilliant color".   Well, 
Harry wept.  I couldn't make much of it from there, though. The egg 
as a symbol of fertility seems more likely.

The golden snitch with wings also reminds me of cupid. 

Toad (I'm seeing snitches in my sleep)