Signs in the Sky

[tdtmx5]

No: HPFGUIDX 61259

Coming out of long lurkerdom to share a very appropriate "sign" for 
OOP publishing day. 

The USA space agency NASA hosts an Astronomy Picture of the Day 
website (APOD) at 
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/  

APOD must have a Harry Potter fan on staff because today's picture is 
a *dark* nebula...the Snake Nebula.  If you follow the link, you can 
see the nebula has a very pronounced S shape.  Can anyone say 
Slytherin?  It is located toward the constellation Ophiucus and is 
catalogued as B72, or Barnard 72 from E.E. Barnard's "On Dark 
Markings in the Sky."  Appropriate, eh?

So, to keep this slightly on topic:

Will we see the Snake Nebula as part of  a centaur's next prediction?
Can this be subtle inspiration for The Dark Mark?

And...

Watch out for any new characters named Ophiucus or Barnard!


T-Squared, whose hopes for OOP include a complete lack of bloodheir!
Harry, animagi, time turner incidents, or star-wars-like paternal 
revelations or hidden siblings, but instead does include an 
astonishing but heretofore completely unimagined JKR plot that has no 
resemblance to any of the amazing theories the smart and imaginative 
HP4GUP listees have come up with over the past three years.  I want 
to be surprised!