[HPforGrownups] Re: Trelawney's prediction and flies

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: brassgryphon 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 6:02 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Trelawney's prediction and flies


  --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> 
  wrote:
  > I've just been listening to PoA on CD today in the car, and noticed 
  that while Harry was waiting for his final exam with Trelawney, he 
  sees/hears a fly buzzing in the window.  Of course, it could be just 
  a regular ordinary fly buzzing in the window.  Or something else?  
  JKR frequently hides clues in such places, and are frequently missed 
  until reread with further understanding.  Is this just a fly?  Could 
  it have something to do with Trelawney's prediction?  She clearly has 
  no clue that she's said anything, could there have been another 
  presence taking her over?  Using her as a "voice box" to prophecy?  
  Now that I mention it, I'm wondering if Trelawney was aware of her 
  prediction the first time.  You know, the first true prophecy?  If 
  not, then perhaps nothing she knowingly says is a true prediction.  
  And then there's that fly . . .. I can't believe I'm getting this 
  worked up over a fly, it just seemed . . . odd.
  > 
  > Richelle
  > 
  > 
  > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

  Eh, it's just setting the stuffy room. Besides, Rowling knows better 
  than to put yet ANOTHER Animagus into the story. And as far as I 
  know, there are no possessing flies or possessing things that can 
  turn into flies in Fantastic Beasts (kelpies are aquatic), so I doubt 
  anything about the fly. I figure it's just an Oracle of Delphi 
  moment, because that's what it's strongly reminiscent of it to me.

  "Brassgryphon"

  You know, beetle wings often make buzzing sounds that can be misinterpreted as flies or other similar-sounding flying insects - since this was from Harry's POV, I have always assumed that 'the fly' was really Rita in her animagus form....afterall, Harry was drowsy, in a stupor and just interpreted the buzzing to be a fly....
  My .02....
  Macha


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