[HPforGrownups] Re: Who is the boy?

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 53967

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, finwitch wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "grace701" <grace701 at y...> 
> wrote:

> > Has anyone noticed that the quote suggest that Harry, or whomever,
> > wasn't alone at first, but that he was left alone?  As if there was a
> > gathering outside and everyone decided to go inside.
> > 
> > "The only person left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat on
> > his back in a flowerbed outside number four."
>  
> Good point, Greicy. But why would any teenage boy lie on his back in 
> flowerbed? Good start, I must say... there's something wrong with the 
> boy - he's probably unconsious or unable to move, if not dead. It 
> could be Harry, Dudley or even Draco Malfoy. With Polyjuice Potion, 
> that boy could be anyone!

My first assumption was that something stunning or shocking had recently
happened (an unexpected outburst of magic, a visit from the MoM, or maybe
the revelation of previously unknown information) and Harry was lying in
the flowerbed trying to make sense of it all.  The Dursleys, on the other
hand, would have retreated into the house to avoid the fallout.

93 days left till we find out for sure.

----
Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"