Who is the boy?/Frank Bryce/Harry's scar-dreams

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 54162

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mr_ed732000" <mr_ed20854 at h...> 
wrote:
> My silly suggestion as to why the boy at issue is Harry:
> 
> *  A quote alleged to appear in the first chapter OofP reads:
> 
>      "The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing
>       to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large,
>       square houses of Privet Drive. . . The only person
>       left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat
>       on his back in a flower bed outside number four."
> 
> *  An actual quote in GoF (pp 4-5, American hard-bound edition) 
> reads:
> 
>      "The wealthy man who owned the Riddle House these
>       days neither lived there nor put it to any use;
>       they said in the village that he kept it for 'tax
>       reasons,' though nobody was very clear what these
>       might be.  The wealthy owner continued to pay Frank
>       to do the gardening, however.  Frank was nearing his
>       seventy-seventh birthday now, very deaf, his bad leg
>       stiffer than ever, but could be seen pottering around
>       the flower beds in fine weather, even though the weeds
>       were starting to creep up on him, try as he might to
>       suppress them."
> 
> 
> My "logic" is as follows:  1) if pottering is something one does in 
> flower beds; and 2) if Harry's only living relatives are named 
> Dursley; THEN the only possible unnamed character otherwise doing 
> nothing in a flower bed must be Harry.  
> 
> Do you see any flaws in that reasoning?  :0)
> Not so sincerely yours,
> 
> Mr. Ed  (who asks this genuine question about Frank Bryce:  who is 
> this guy?  and why does Harry's dream at the beginning of GoF seem 
> to take place largely from Frank's perspective?)

Well, Ok. Harry Potter was pottering a flower-bed (what ever that 
pottering is), something happened, so now there's Harry_Potter_in the 
flowerbed... Sure. Not to mention that Harry IS the most likely 
person to be there anyway.

And why's Harry's dream-vision centered around Frank Bryce?
They're not relatives; Yet there is *some* sort of connection, though 
not exactly to Harry: Frank Bryce is black and suspected of murder he 
didn't do - then there's Sirius Black who's also an "innocent" murder-
suspect...

But indeed, *why* is it from Frank Bryce's perspective?
Harry's only other scar-dream was from an Eagle-Owl's perspective.
Hmm...

Harry sees and hears things in a dream from a perspective of someone 
who's there, but isn't Voldemort nor Pettigrew.

I see some sort of similarity between Frank Bryce/Sirius Black
Some sort of similarity between Eagle Owl/Hedwig

-- Finwitch