CoS scene.

[severusbook4]

No: HPFGUIDX 80496

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "severusbook4" 
> <severusbook4 at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > I seem to remember the JKR insisted on the Knockturn Alley 
scene, 
> > with Harry in the store, being left in the film.  > 
> 
> Jen:
> 
> I ran across this quote from JKR in a 2000 interview with Larry 
King:
> 
> "But there's a small percentage of the stuff in books that is my 
> modification of what people used to believe was true. For example, 
> there is an object in the second book, which is the Hand of Glory. 
> This is very macabre, but people used to believe in Europe that, 
if 
> you cut off the hand of a hanged man, it would make a perpetual 
torch 
> that gave light only to the holder, which is a creepy, you know -- 
> but a wonderful idea. So I used that. That's a very ancient idea. 
I 
> didn't invent the Hand of Glory."
> 
> My theory is the Hand of Glory will play again and that the 
Knockturn 
> Alley scene was the one JKR insisted on keeping in. My first 
thought 
> when reading that quote was *Wormtail*! 
> 
> Who better to be the "hanged man"? Maybe not literally yet, but as 
> Sirius said, Pettigrew has nowhere to go. His old friends and the 
> Order won't take him back, and Voldemort may have no use for him 
now 
> that he's back to full power. 
> 
>  I think JKR's use of the myth won't be exactly as the one above. 
> Rather than Pettigrew's cut-off hand, he will use his "silvery" 
new 
> hand in an act of mercy towards Harry, or in some way to impede 
> Voldemort. (That's not a new theory around here, but the above 
> interview seems to give it some weight).

Severus here:

A hanged man?  In Tarot cards the symbol of the hanged man means a 
life in suspension, or rather, indecision.  Could this be a clue 
that Wormtail is still making up his mind to who he is loyal?  Could 
Wormtail be torn between staying with LV and joining Harry to settle 
his life debt that he owes him?  Just a thought, played with tarot 
cards years ago, the hanged man is one of the few I really remember.

Sevvie