[HPforGrownups] Harry's Watch

[Kathryn Wolber]

No: HPFGUIDX 59732


--- yellows at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/9/2003 6:13:51 PM Eastern
> Standard Time, Red Inkstone 
> writes:
> 
> > Why is such a deal made about Harry's stopped
> watch in GF? 

Kathryn: Unlurking for a bit, I always connected the
stopped watch to the whole theme of time throughout
GoF and a symbol of the completion of the second task.
 Some of my favorite quotes from GoF have to do with
time because Harry always wants more of it ("It is a
strange thing, but when you are dreading something,
and would give anything to slow down time, it has a
disobliging habit of speeding up.")  Prior to the
first and second tasks, Harry is constantly wishing to
slow down time and get more of it.  Particularly when
it's getting down to the wire and he still hasn't
figured out the egg, and then sleeps in the morning of
the 2nd task (possibly a reason the watch stayed on,
he was in a hurry cause he was late).  So then after
he rushes and takes too long on the 2nd task, his
watch has stopped.  I can't really explain it, what it
means or anything, but it seems like a symbolic
stopping.  A sign that things have calmed down. That
even if only for a brief moment, time has stopped to
give Harry a chance to catch up.

Just a thought:)

~Kathryn
...who reserved OOP at a different Borders today
because the 1st place isn't having a party=P

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