Dreams and Turbans

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No: HPFGUIDX 143196

I recently took a trip by plane. Sitting in an airline terminal, 
waiting for a delayed flight provides my best HP reading time! I've 
now finished my second read of HBP---I know, I'm way behind the rest 
of you! These sections stood out as I read them. As you'll see, they 
aren't so close together, but being able to read at a comfortable 
pace, with no interruptions, they seemed to be all one section.

HBP chapter 19 p 417

Harry was knocked out of a Quidditch game by McLaggan and wakes up in 
the Hospital Wing:

"Harry's head felt strangely heavy; he raised a hand and felt a stiff 
turban of bandages."

"Harry lay there, staring up at the patch of light on the ceiling, 
his recently mended skull not hurting, precisely, but feeling 
slightly tender underneath all the bandaging."

He then summons Dobby and Kreacher and directs them to watch Draco. 

Then in chp21, p 436 a week later:
The chapter starts with the Trio working on DADA homework, discussing 
the Prince, and wondering how to get Slughorn's memory. Dobby and 
Kreacher appear without warning to give their report about Malfoy. 

"Harry's mind worked feverishly and his dreams when he finally fell 
asleep, were broken and disturbed by images of Malfoy, who turned 
into Slughorn who turned into Snape. 
"

This is 20 pages apart in two different chapters, and a week has gone 
by, but compare it to the dream Harry had his first night at 
Hogwarts. 



SS/PS chapter 7
"Perhaps Harry had eaten a bit too 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 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."


Does anyone else see a connection? As much as we've discussed the 
SS/PS dream we never came to a conclusion. Now we have another turban 
dream
well, sort of. So in one Malfoy turns into Snape who seems to 
turn into LV. In the next, Malfoy turns into Slughorn who turns into 
Snape. Any ideas?