OOP: Egg and more (Was OOP:Snitch/gift of knife)

[cantoramy]

No: HPFGUIDX 64677

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> 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.  
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> Toad (who can't think straight right now--not enough sleep, too 
many 
> tears)

I also noticed the scene with the Easter egg. (I'm a H/G shipper 
too)  

"It's Easter eggs from Mum," said Ginny.  "There's one for 
you...There you go..."
She handed him a handsome chocolate 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 should have made 
him feel like this. (OOP US hardcover, p. 655)

I looked and looked, but I couldn't find any references to other 
times when Easter eggs affected him this way.  Was it the fact that 
Ginny had just come from Quidditch practice and she was his 
replacement as seeker, so when he saw the Snitches, he felt sad?  I 
don't think that makes sense, but one never knows with JKR.

As an aside, in today's broadcast, JKR said that Lupin, who had been 
lonely for so long, and was so happy to finally have friends at 
Hogwarts, that he let his friends get away with more than they 
should, even thought he was a Prefect, out of fear that they 
wouldn't like him any more.  I'm so stupid, I never realised that:)

There are always unanswered questions at the end of each book.  Some 
of them from OOP seem to be, IMHO,

1.  Why did the Easter egg affect Harry so deeply?

2.  Why does DD trust Snape?

3.  How did the Potter family acquire its gold?

4.  *Did* James force Lily to marry him?

5.  Who really told Petunia about the Dementors?  She called 
him "that awful boy"--was it Snape?

6.  Who overheard the beginning of Trelawny's prediction, was thrown 
out of the Hog's Head, and never heard the whole thing?

7.  Why did LV choose the Potter's son vs. the Longbottom's son?

Any more?

cantoramy
who can't believe that in the last 2 days there have been over 2000 
postings!