Harry's dream in PS/SS

[eloise_herisson]

No: HPFGUIDX 139086

> Christina wrote:
> Considering what we now know about Snape, Draco Malfoy, and 
> Horcruxes, what does everyone make of the dream Harry had his first 
> night at Hogwarts? It seems like one of those passages we should be 
> able to dig through for clues, but I can't think of any theories 
> this could lend itself to. It hardly seems like something that JKR 
> would put in just to show Harry's distress.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 
> Bookworm:
> It's funny that you mention this – I was thinking about
> Harry's dreams a few days ago.  Didn't he also have one that
> ended with Ron and Hermione wearing crowns?  [reminder to self –
> it's time to reread PS/SS again]
> 
> I do agree that JKR put this dream in for a reason, probably 
> foreshadowing.  

<snip a lot of good explanations>

Eloise:

I was also thinking about this recently and not for the first time 
wondering if it had to do with his actual memory of the night the AK 
backfired. 

We learn later what that flash of green light is and Harry 
experiences it again when under the influence of Dementor's/the 
Boggart!Dementor, when other bits of the memory also become clearer.

JKR has more or less told us in the TLC/Mugglenet interview that 
there was indeed someone else at Godric's Hollow: 

................................................................
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-
anelli-3.htm:


>>MA: Was there anyone else present in Godric's Hollow the night 
Harry's parents
were killed?

JKR: No comment.<<

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When the subject of a possible witness first (I think)
came up, a very long time ago, there was speculation that it was 
Lupin who was there, because he questioned Harry about hearing his 
father's voice. The idea was that under the influence of the Dementor!
Boggart, Harry actually heard *Lupin*, not James, warning of 
Voldemort's arrival.

What if, in fact, it was Snape and Harry recalls this? A problem with 
this scenario is that he would have had to stay out of Voldemort's 
sight/be in disguise (<sigh> Polyjuice?) or he'd be dead by now.

Or else having overheard Voldemort's plans, he could have rushed to GH
only to arrive a fraction too late, able only to witness, not fight. 
It could have been he who alerted the Order, allowing Hagrid to get 
there so quickly (*even ahead of Sirius*, who had gone there as soon 
as he realised there was a problem).

I wonder what would have happened if Voldemort had demanded that he
accompany him? I know that Voldemort obviously chose to kill the
Potters personally, but it's not unlikely that he took DEs with him.
And the one who had alerted him to the danger posed by Harry in the
first place might have been "rewarded" by the privilege of being
present at the event.

Snape might have been in a postion where there was nothing that he
could do other than watch or wind up dead too (which Sirius no doubt
would say he should have.)

It is certainly interesting that in the dream Harry witnesses the 
flash of the curse, accompanied a vision of both Malfoy and Snape. 
Was Malfoy (sr) there, too (remembering that Draco does look like his 
father), accompanying his master and later retrieving his wand?

~Eloise