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

adsong16 gorda_ad at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 9 00:00:27 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 100478


>  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. >>

>> James wrote:
> 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.
> 


now me:

oh no! one of the ravens (in the movie) snips at Harry when he's trying to get Buckbeak to 
move... I do confess to agree with Dan Radcliffe when he predicts his character will die by 
the end... but perhaps we are reading too much into this...

Gorda





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