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Bex hubbarrk at rose-hulman.edu
Wed Oct 6 17:29:36 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 114988


Jmoses wrote:
> > Next to the rubbish bin, on jkrowling.com, there is a piece of 
> > paper in which you can make out the words,
> 
> >             Harry.....
> >            a large...
> >            is dead...
> >            my fath...
> >            swallow...
> >            there.....
> 
> >    Does anyone know what this might be in reference to.

Lady Macbeth replied:
> 
> Hmm...when I had first glanced at it, I had thought it was 
> discarded copies of the early drafts of the graveyard scene in 
> Goblet of Fire.  However, now that I think about it, it being out 
> in the open but only partially seen might be worth delving in to 
> deeper.

Yb replies:
Quick note: there's also a "nothing" at the bottom.
I got this from a post on the OT group (from Annemehr):

"I think it may be an early version of part of "Hermione's Secret,"
chapter 21 of PoA. It's the part after Harry and Hermione have taken
Buckbeak into the Forest and they've seen themselves go down into the
Whomping Willow. Hermione asks Harry why the Dementors didn't get
Sirius, and Harry explains about the large silver something Patronus
and how he thought he'd seen his Dad. If you read that passage (about
a page worth of text), almost all those words are there, though not
quite in that order. Mostly Harry says "dad," but eventually he does
say "father." The only word that doesn't seem to match at all is
"nothing," but at one point it says "Harry didn't say anything," 
which *might* once have been "Harry said nothing," right?"

Also, in PoA, Chapter 19, The Servant of Lord Voldemort, there are a 
few of those words scattered about.But I think Annemehr's idea is 
more plausible. (PoA, AmVer, p.407). Especially about the rubbish 
part.

~Yb








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