Harry's dead (short lifeline)

[Peggy]

No: HPFGUIDX 123635


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, caesian <caesian at y...> wrote:
> In PoA, Professor Trelawney wastes no time telling Harry he has the 
> shortest life line she has ever seen.
> 
> We all know that poor T is blinkered.  She can't SEE the future 
even 
> when she actually does.  I.e., she can see the future (e.g. Sirius) 
but 
> almost always misinterprets it (e.g. The Grim).
> 
> Her observation got me thinking - what if Harry does have an 
incredibly 
> short life line?  For example, the life line of someone who died in 
> infancy.
>
<snip>

Peg:

I think the idea is imaginative, but I can't quite agree with all of 
it.  I do agree most emphatically that Harry and LV are caught up in 
each other's fates, but JKR (who's very good at ambiguity) wouldn't 
have referred to Harry as "The Boy Who Lived" unless she really meant 
it.

I'll admit that the actual connection between Harry and LV is 
unclear, and the nature of the connection is "yet to be revealed."  
Still, I don't think DD, faulty human that he has turned out to be, 
would have missed the fact that the baby Hagrid retrieved wasn't 
alive anymore.

I'm hoping that we'll get a better idea of the nature of the 
connection in the next book.  In the meantime, I'm looking for 
apparently irrelevant statements in the earlier books that might give 
me a hint.

Peg