Predictions . . .

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 96411

 --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mcdee1980" 
<idrinkjameson at h...> wrote:
> > We all know 
> > in the short term that she's referring to Wormtail, however, 
what if 
> > the key to the original prophesy is also contained in that 
sequence.  
> > I don't have the book in my hands right now, due to the early 
hour, 
> > but what else, possibly of seemingly little importance, happens 
on 
> > the night that Wormtail leaves to join the Dark Lord?
> 

Kneasy:
> Not quite all of us.
> 
> If you're of a devious disposition the second prophecy can refer 
to 
> someone else -  Sirius.
> 
> "It will happen tonight.
> The Dark  Lord lies alone and friendless, abandoned by his 
followers.
> His servant has been chained these 12 years. Tonight, before 
midnight,
> the servant will break free and set out to rejoin his master." etc.
> 
> Sirius had been in Azkaban for 12 years, much closer to "being 
chained"
> than Peter was as Wormtail.
> He escaped before midnight and guess what? No-one knows where he 
> went. He wrote to Harry and DD, but never said where he was or what
> he was doing. Not even after he got back.
> 
> In her latest webcast JKR said that we would learn more about 
Sirius.
> Super! 'Cos I don't think it's going to be anything good.


Jen: Really, you don't think we'll learn anything positive? Now 
*that's* a surprise ;).

Two problems with this theory. One, Sirius escaped from his 'chains' 
months prior to that night. Two, even if you say he's symbolically 
chained, i.e. the WW considers him a murderer, he wasn't freed from 
the symbolic chains, either--except for 6 people, everyone else 
considers him a wanted man.

Wormtail is not literally chained as a rat, but he *is* symbolically 
chained from ever taking human form again until he chooses to find 
LV. That phrasing of 'breaking free from chains' was strictly to 
prolong the time we all believed Sirius to be the murderer.

BTW, how do we know it's not Snape? Certainly he was chained to his 
desk & the whiny kids at Hogwarts. After his 'great disappointment' 
of the evening he might have decided DD could stick it. <eg>