[HPforGrownups] Re: Recurrences

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 88576



> Kneasy
> 
> I'm grateful that you've mentioned the Sphinx. Splendid! Thank you!
> I felt that PP, Ron and Bill, while possibly indicative, were not
*direct*
> Egyptian links to Harry. Can't think how I missed it.

Iggy de-cloaking for a second:

The sphinx is depicted as having the head of a woman and the body of a
lion (large cat.)

He has met an example earlier... a few in fact.  Mrs. Figg (who is very
close to her cats), and Hermione, who is very close to her ginger cat,
Crookshanks.  (Ginger, btw, does happen to be a color only slightly
different than that of a lioness.  Also Sphinxes are incredibly
intelligent... just like Hermione is.)

While it does not end in an attack, the encounter definitely has the
overtone of quietly veiled lethal power.



As for trolls, he has encountered a lesser version... Dudley.  Large,
stupid, ugly, brutish, bullying, humanoid type creature.  (Of course,
Vernon would qualify too...)


BTW: For your question about Boggarts being able to copy the powers of
what they copy, I think that they can copy some... since Harry
remembered more and more of his parents deaths as he trained against the
Boggart, not in his encounters against the Dementors.  (IIRC)



> Kneasy
> 
> Now, to raise my hypothesis to the level of theory, we need Harry to
> face  mortal danger from a being with  an Egyptian connection some-
> where in the next two books.

Iggy here:

He has already.  While Nagani has an Indian name (and is probably from
there), you also need to remember that cobras also exist in Egypt as
well.

The Red Spitting Cobra (Naja pallida)ranges in Southern Egypt (which,
IIRC, is near where the Pyramids are located...)

Egyptian Cobras (Naja haje), also known as the Aspis, has a maximum
length of about 3 meters (about the size of Nagani... who can be
expected to be larger than normal, as wizards familiars commonly
are...), and range all over Egypt in almost any environment other than
purely desert.  (They have even been spotted swimming in the
Mediterranean.)

Those are the two main cobra species found in Egypt.  Harry has been in
danger from an Egyptian creature connection.  On the other hand, he has
not encountered something from India in a passive situation.  (Well,
unless you count the Patil sisters...  *grin*)


'Nuff said.

Iggy McSnurd

(*disappears once again with a swirl of his invisibility cloak*)