TBAY: DRIBBLE SHADOWS (long)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 128795

Feeling the affects of the margaritas, Potioncat stays on the dock 
while SSSusan goes for a walk. Potioncat watches as SSSusan meets up 
with Neri and encounters something sharp. SSSusan's voice carries 
over the water: 
> SSSusan:
> "Damn!  That hurts.  
snip 
> SSSusan grins as she whips out Neosporin, an Ace bandage & a huge 
> roll of gauze, careful not to knock over the remains in her 
> margarita pitcher.  


SSSusan begins wrapping her foot with the gauze, from here it looks 
like she has a turban on her foot. "TURBAN!" Potioncat yells. "That's 
it!" She dashes, (well, staggers) off to join SSSusan and the 
gathering crowd. She grabs the first aid kit and writes TURBAN on it. 
Then she starts to speak:

Dreams! Right after chapter one is chapter two. (Everyone shakes 
their heads in pity.) It starts with the dream about a flying 
motorcycle. Harry doesn't remember the bike, but we do. It acts as a 
bridge for the missing ten years. But JKR has Harry bring it up 
again. JKR wants us to remember the bike or the dream. Harry doesn't 
remember the giant that rode the bike, just that it was a pleasant 
dream that he thought he'd had before. Skip a few and we get to 
chapter 7. Remember the dream that Harry forgot?

SS/PS  chapter 7
"Perhaps Harry had eaten a bit to much, because he had a very strange 
dream. He was wearing Professor Quirrell's turban, which kept talking 
to him, telling him he must transfer to Slytherin at once, because it 
was his destiny. Harry told the turban he didn't want to be in 
Slytherin; it got heavier and heavier; he tried to pull it off but it 
tightened painfully--and there was Malfoy, laughing at him as he 
struggled with it--then Malfoy turned into the hook-nosed teacher, 
Snape, whose laugh became high and cold--there was a burst of green 
light and Harry woke, sweating and shaking."

What if this dream is a jumble of images? New experiences from that 
day mixed with forgotten events: The sorting hat; Draco and all that 
is unpleasant about Slytherin; The Potions Master who appears to make 
Harry's scar hurt; Quirrell's purple turban. The word destiny wasn't 
used by the Sorting Hat at the Feast. But it's in his dreams. Could 
someone have had a conversation in the past about Harry's destiny?

Picture this: Hagrid delivers Baby Harry to Snape, possibly at 
Hogwarts. Hagrid runs an errand within the castle (meeting 
McGonagall, but not telling her Harry is there.) Snape treats the 
wound on Harry's head with the dragon blood ointment, wrapping a 
bandage around Harry's head. He wraps it tightly and it hurts. Baby 
Harry doesn't like that one bit! Finally Hagrid comes back and takes 
Harry on the pleasant bike ride.

Back to the dream: The sorting hat merges with the turban which 
becomes the forgotten bandage. Snape looking past Quirrell's turban 
recalls to Harry's mind Snape applying a turban to his head. It makes 
his head hurt and jolts a memory of the real cause of the injury, 
high laughter and a green light.

TURBAN! Tying Unguent 'Round Baby 'Arry's Noggin.

Potioncat aplogizes to SSSusan for the goofy acronyms, but thinks the 
dream may support some protective action on Snape's part when Harry 
was young.