OOP: Question about name plate/possible spoiler

sirius_sam1 ribi305 at mit.edu
Mon Jun 23 14:24:27 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 62077

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mtwelovett" <mbush at l...> wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Sorry if someone has asked this already, I just signed on and am
> overwhlemed at the number of posts already, and am still trying to 
let
> everrything sink in before getting into too much theorizing. I'm at
> the office, and don't have the book in front of me, but could 
someone
> please check something for me? The American edition uses weird fonts
> (typefaces) sometimes for letters and whatnot, and I think they 
made a
> poor choice for the nameplate for the prophacys in the ministry. Can
> someone please let me know (preferably from a Canadian or British
> edition) what the initials across the top of Harry/Voldermort's
> prophacy are? one of the letters near the end looks like it could 
be a
> B, or a R by the way the font is designed it isn't 100% clear. I 
don't
> know if this is a clue to anything later, but would like to know the
> correct initial incase it is. This falls at the end of a chapter, 
and
> I thought I'd remember which one, but I'm not remembering now. It is
> obviously while they are in the Ministry. Thanks in advance!
> 
> mtwelovett

They are the initials for Trelawney to Dumbledore (I don't have the 
book in front of me, so I can't tell you what they are, but look up 
Dumbledore's full name earlier in the book, it matches with those 
initials, and same for Trelawney.)

Sirius Sam






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