A riddle that has imortant implications on events in the Potterverse

[tinglinger]

No: HPFGUIDX 129641

I remember this riddle I came across as a kid and
am still amazed how often it has turned up since
in many different disguises. Here goes .........


A husband, wife, and two children are preparing for
church on Sunday. The wife and kids are taking
forever to get ready, so the wife suggests that they
go in separate cars and meet at the church there later.
Husband enters the church and sits down in a pew near
the back. The hymns and prayers are soon over and the
minister steps up to the dais and begins his sermon.
He is a boring speaker and he drones on and on and
on until the husband nods off to sleep.....
and he has this dream.....
he is fighting for the rebels in the French Revolution
and is captured by loyalists to the King. A trial is
held and he is sentenced to death by guillotine for
treason and sedition.
Finally the day of his scheduled execution arrives and,
helpless to resist, he is led up to the guillotine and
is forced to lie down with his neck under the blade,
which is elevated twenty feet in the air......
the executioner trips the blade which goes shrieking
downward towards his neck....
meanwhile, his wife and children enter the church and,
seeing that the husband is fast asleep, slip into the
row behind him so as not to wake him up.
his wife leans forwards and gently taps her husband
on the neck just as the blade is about to hit and
he immediately dies of a heart attack without ever
regaining consciousness.....


the question is ....

what is wrong with the story?
i will answer here on Monday and explain how the riddle
and the answer are both on topic and relevant to a very
key event in Harry's life ........

for those of you who cant wait, the answer is at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/potterplots/40

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theories are hatched or cracked {or both}