Weasley cousin/ShriekingTunnel/Wands,wands,wands/Patronus/Slide/St Mungo

[purrlygirlie]

No: HPFGUIDX 79434

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <
catlady at w...> wrote:
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> Joj mom31 wrote in 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/79342 :
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> << Cho's swan patronus. (snip) Was it to show us that Cho is a 
> powerful witch or was it just a personality match? (Swans are 
> beautiful from afar, but not very friendly and even a little
> dangerous up close). Was Hermione's otter a clue like Sirius's code 
> name "snuffles" (snuffed out)? >>
> 
> John Granger, who wrote a book about Alchemy and the Rowling oeuvre, 
> said in his Nimbus 2003 talk that the swan appears at that point in 
> OoP because the swan is a traditional alchemical symbol (whose 
> meaning I forget, sorry), and assigning it as Cho's Patronus was just 
> a way to stick a swan in.
> 
Purrly now:
   From what I remember, Mr. Granger said that the swan, as well as the lily 
and the moon, was a symbol associated with the white stage of the 
alchemical process, the stage between the breaking down of the black stage 
and the firey transformation of the red stage.  He believed that the sixth 
book would be th"White" book, as OotP had been the "Black" and the final 
book will be the "Red" book.  Following this theory, anything associated with 
the color white (Albus) or it's symbols (Cho, Lily, Luna, Moony) should be 
significant in the next book.