Raven in the Tower. was Clues to 6&7 in POA film

James president0084 at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 7 15:48:01 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 100286

 Potioncat wrote:

> > The one thing that jumped out at me was the 
blackbirds/crows/ravens around Hagrid's Hut.  I don't recall reading about them, but there was a huge flock of them. Blackbirds are an omen (I don't 
remember what they mean. And I wondered if ravens would play a part later 
on in the books. >>

Ravens have always been closely related with death, and magpies with 
bad luck.

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the raven was perched over Macbeths' 
castle, it was a foreshadowing Duncan's murder by Macbeth and Lady 
Macbeth which lead to the eventually collapse of the Scottish kingdom.

James






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