TIPS ON WORKING OUT CLUES IN THE HARRY POTTER SERIES

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 84283

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "thesparksiii" 
<thesparksiii at y...> wrote:
> TIPS ON WORKING OUT CLUES IN THE HARRY POTTER SERIES
> 
> 	Do you want few important tips on how to figure out 
> significant stuff hidden in the books???
> 
> 	Check out some of the patterns I have noticed about the 
> manner JKR gives clues while I was reading the books:
> 
> 	First, look closely at the statement following the 
> phrase "AS THOUGH." I used to pay a little attention with them 
> before, assuming that it was just part of the way JKR describes 
the 
> situation so as to give the readers a clear idea or picture of the 
> things around. Little did I know that most of the statements 
> following that phrase (as though) are giving away an awful lot of 
> highly significant ideas of what might happen. Here are few 
> examples, excerpts, actually, from the HP books:
> 

> 	Second, watch out for what seems like only a couple of 
> uninteresting descriptions of situations that we barely notice. 
Most 
> of the time you can snatch hidden valuable facts from there. I've 
> learned in reading HP that you have to focus on the description 
more 
> than what the characters are saying: Examples again:
> 
 
> Last, DIVERSION. In the middle of an exciting scene, JKR slips in 
> important stuff that is quite immaterial on what's exciting and 
> tension-filled that is happening, we tend to overlook it. Examples 
> for the last time:
> 

> Those are just some of my tips on how to work out clues in the 
> story. I hope find it helpful. And you can add more of your own 
tips 
> on working out clues. Or you can add more examples for the tips 
> aforementioned.

Sorry, I had to skip the examples you give. But BRAVO, it's very 
relevant! In baroque itterature, it's called "mislead with the 
truth". And it's also usual in Alchemy, if I understand well the 
book I'm reading currently. I think I'm going to read my Harry 
Potter books again, with your post handy.

Amicalement,

Iris