Harry's dreams/Petunia/Draco's Wand/Hagrid & Crookshanks=Clues

grace701 grace701 at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 10 18:47:42 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 53562

I am re-reading SS and as I was reading (only up to chapter 5), a 
few sentences/clues caught my eyes:

>P.37 ~ The Sorceror's Stone Ch. 2 American edition Paperback:
"When he has been younger, Harry had dreamed and dreamed of some 
unknown relation coming to take him away, but it never happened; The 
Dursleys were his only family."

Question/Clue:  Being that the dreams Harry has had have either come 
true or given him insight on his past.  It wouldn't be out of the 
ordinary to assume that this is a clue being that Harry has a 
guardian, Sirius, who is not a blood relative, but who is still 
considered family enough to be a Godfather.  Could it be that Sirius 
will be cleared up in perhaps book 5 and come to take Harry away 
from the Dursleys.  From what I understood in Debbie's post on 
Dursley's Fears, it seems that Vernon maybe afraid of magic because 
Sirius and James played tricks on him.  It would be great to see the 
look on Vernon's face to see Sirius, again.  This can be debunked 
though: Why recognize Sirius's name in the news?  Did he know if 
Sirius's last name?  
Basically, will Sirius, or some other "unknown relative" take Harry 
away?  Who was Harry's godmother? (Mrs. Weasley!;))

>P.49 - Vernon is nailing down any cracks that the doors may have so 
that the letters won't be delivered and Petunia says:
"I'm not sure that'll work, Vernon."

Question/Clue:  How does she know this?  She may not sound positive, 
but why say that?  


P.96 - Harry meets Draco for the first time at Madam Malkin's Robes 
for all Occasions shop.  Draco says:
"My father's next door buying my books and my mother's up the street 
looking at wands..." he continues to talk of broomsticks.  

Question/Clue:  Did he mean his mother was buying him his wand?  Why 
would she be looking at wands without him being there?  It doesn't 
make any sense to me.  Of course, it is more than likely he went 
afterwards to buy it, but why is she looking at it.  What's the 
point in that?

P. 101 - Hagrid on getting Harry an animal as his birthday present:
"...Not a toad, toads went outta fashion years ago, yeh'd be laughed 
at - an' I don't like cats, they make me sneeze. ..."

Question/Clue:  Has Hagrid ever been around Crookshanks?  And if so, 
has he sneezed?  This could be because Crookshanks is half Kneazle, 
but he (it is a he right?) is still half cat!

Greicy, who is enjoying an unofficial book called: Ultimate 
Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter.  It's good so far 
so I shall start recommending it! =)






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