Trelawney's prediction and flies OOP ref. at end

[innermurk]

No: HPFGUIDX 58346

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw" 
<meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> Here's what I *really* wanted to communicated about Skeeter 
possibly 
> buzzing around in PoA.  If I am not mistaken (and I'm being really 
> careful here, as I don't have the books at school and want to spare 
> myself further embarrassment), in GoF, Skeeter in her animagus form 
> is referred to once as a beetle (during the Yule Ball) and later as 
> simply an insect.  Never a fly.  I think in GoF JKR was careful 
about 
> dropping those hints.
> 
> I also recall reading about JKR replacing a nosy Weasley cousin 
with 
> the Rita Skeeter character, and that Skeeter was originally written 
> into the scene in SS where Harry first meets witches and wizards in 
> Diagon Alley.  If she was written out of that scene and first 
> appeared later in GoF, I'll say I don't think JKR had her spying on 
> Harry earlier, else Rita would have published something about 
Harry's 
> PoA experiences in GoF.  JKR also gave us quite an introduction to 
> Rita in GoF.  
> 
> The only other insect animagus I could imagine hanging around is 
> Dumbledore, and it has been speculated that he is possibly a 
> bumblebee, as that is what Dumbledore means.  I'd like to think 
> Dumbledore is no fly.  :-)
> 

I innermurk reply:

True, but Harry doesn't actually see the fly, though it could be 
implied that he does. 

POA US PB pg 322:
"Harry was now the only person left to be tested. He settled himself 
on the floor with his back against the wall, listening to a fly 
buzzing in the sunny window, his mind across the grounds with Hagrid."

Now, it could be just a fly. 
It could be an animagus that he didn't look at too closely. 
It could be nothing, but JKR's remembering her boring time before 
finals as she sat in a hallway or something.
Or it could be a huge but obscure hint that JKR put in there for 
us. :)

It's fun to wonder about anyway :)

Innermurk