GoF - Chapter Nine

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 122130


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "charme" <dontask2much at y...> 
wrote:
> I have been focusing on Chapter Nine of GoF as in JKR's interviews 
and chats she says that it was so difficult to write, she thought 
about skipping the chapter completely. We pick up the action as 
Harry, Hermoine, and Ron have fled to the woods after the 
supposed "DE's" began having some Muggle sport. Please note that up 
to this point, the trio had been hearing bangs and shouts from the 
campsite, then Draco Malfoy appears:
> 
> 
> 
> GoF, Chapter Nine (US)
>  
> Ron told Malfoy to do something that Harry knew he would never 
have dared say in front of Mrs. Weasley.
> 
> "Language, Weasley," said Malfoy, his pale eyes 
glittering.  "Hadn't you better be hurrying along, now? You wouldn't 
like her spotted, would you?"
He nodded at Hermione, and at the same moment, a blast like a bomb 
sounded from the campsite, and a flash of green light momentarily 
lit the trees around them.
> 
> A blast like a bomb? A flash of green light? Does this in any way 
sound like something we've possibly read about before?  What other 
than the Muggle sport, Winky, and the Dark Mark happened that night?
> 
> charme

Valky:
Oh Go ON Charme! You didn't find something so interesting in GOF 
while my copy is STILL ON LOAN!!!

I presume the "flash of green light" doesn't directly preceed the 
appearance of the Dark Mark and we can assume that it is something 
else altogether. 

This sounds a little like one of the first PS/SS chapters JKR 
discarded the one where Hermione's family see the same thing across 
the ocean.. I wonder if Vmonte is right about the time travelling 
thing?

Can you quote a little more, the next few lines perhaps. I'm not 
sure I have got the whole picture.