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[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 83736

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "grannybat84112" 
<grannybat at h...> wrote:

What function DOES the Sword of Gryffindor serve in the series? 

SNIP

I'll be very surprised if JKR leaves the sword to tarnish in its 
display case now that open war has been declared.  Its potential as 
symbol and pragmatic weapon is just too strong.


Arya Writes:  
I agree.  It's got a role to play yet.  I don't have one of my OotP 
books here at work (blast it all!!) but in DD's office after the 
telling of the prophecy and as the sun is rising, Harry, pondering 
something (or meerly still absorbing) looks off to the side to see 
Godric Gryffindor's sword in a glass case, with the dawn's sunlight 
glinting off of it.  Foreshadowing anyone?  That sword is mentioned 
here again, in a very *big* scene.  

You know, I often wonder just how much about Harry, does Hermione 
really know? Does she know ALL that we the readers know?  Harry isn't 
the most sharing type, especially about personal things.  We know 
Herms was still sleeping the sleep of the petrified when Harry came 
out of the Chamber, dragging the sword with him.  We know Ernie (I 
think?) said one of the portraits said Harry killed a basislisk  with 
a great big sword (again, no book here, just paraphrasing).  I wonder 
if Herms knows it was *the* sword of GG...like maybe, perhaps, there 
is something said about it in oh, say..."Hogwarts: A History"???  I 
have to wonder...

Arya