Dream on. Back to the Dream. Was: Survival of AK

[Mandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 114173

 > Kneasy wrote:
> After a bad day there's nothing so good as a boost to the ego.
> Thank you.
> But you're giving me an excuse to re-introduce a subject I've 
posted on before (twice!) and received almost no response - that 
dream.
> It is foreshadowing, it must be. It's intended solely for us, the 
readers.What other purpose could it possibly have? - the text states 
explicitly that Harry never remembers it!
> There are clues there, jumbled as in any dream - but if they can 
be teased out it might (should!) give us a guide to what has happened
> and what might yet happen. I find Draco melding into Snape 
particularly intriguing -  especially because at this point in the 
story Harry  has  not met Snape, he's only seen him from a distance.
> A tight turban insisting that he must transfer to Slytherin - 
Malfoy -Snape - and a green light. We now know that behind that 
turban was Voldy;  is it Voldy that wants Harry in Slytherin or is 
it a hold-over from the Hat's comments?  Is the green light past or 
future? Malfoy becomes Snape - how?
> For a conspiricist it's almost all  too much.


Mandy here:
I don't think it is foreshadowing but I do agree that the dream is 
gift for us.  The only purpose I think it has is as a clue to the 
final solution to the whole saga. Namely what is the relationship 
between Harry and LV, and why and how did Harry survive GH.

I support your GH theory of possession.  That LV wasn't trying to 
kill Harry at all and did not cast an AK on him, but instead tried 
to possess him and was ejected by the protection Lily placed over 
Harry when she died.  

The failed GH possession left remnants of LV in Harry's head and 
that is what is surfacing in his dream. Simply the remnants of LV, 
as the Heir of Slytherin, wanting to be in Slytherin House.

Harry's memory of the green flash was the AK that killed his mum, 
right before LV jumped into his head and Harry passes out with pain 
as he did at the end of OotP.  It is the only physical 
representation of that event that he remembers. He was too young to 
talk really understand language so his brain processes it as sound 
and light.

As for Malfoy becoming Snape well the only two explanations for 
foreshadowing that I've heard, I don't like.  Firstly Malfoy becomes 
head of Slytherin House. No, not in a million years would a son of 
the House of Malfoy condescend to become a teacher.  There is no 
compassion in the child and never will be.  Secondly, that Malfoy 
will defect to the good side, like Snape.  The hoped for good 
Slytherin.  While I like this theory in general I don't know if 
there is enough room in the story for it to happen.  We just don't 
know Malfoy well enough for any of us to care about him in a way 
that redeeming him would be worth it. 

So Malfoy becomes Snape in the dream because they both represent the 
first dark wizards Harry has met in the WW since leaving it as a 
baby.  The WW is new to him and he's struggling to make sense of it 
all and meets this horrible child wizard, and then gets a feeling of 
similar discomfort from an adult wizard, it's logical for him to 
dream that Malfoy is going to grow up in to Snape.

Boring, I know, but I just can't come up with a more interesting 
theory about that dream.

Cheers Mandy