My new favorite line from HBP

[lolita_ns]

No: HPFGUIDX 141588

> zgirnius:
> Harry needs to be more careful what he wishes for...


Hi there, I've been gone for a while - moving house & that sort of 
thing.

This is not in a straightforward relation to what you've got written 
there, but this sentence of yours made me think of some serious 
foreshadowing that Rowling employs in her work. Judging from these 
things, a careful and not too-in-love-with-complicated-theories 
reader can probably foresee the ultimate conclusion of the series.

Has anyone been thinking of the irony in PoA, when, after Snape's 
outburst in the Hospital wing, Fudge tells to Dumbledore something 
along the lines of 'I'd watch my back from that bloke, if I were 
you,' and DD then replies that there's no reason to worry about Snape?

Spooky, based on the fact that it was Fudge who was right and DD who 
was wrong. 

(Mind you, I'm not dealing with ESE!SS, ESG!SS, OFH!SS etc. here; I'm 
just stating a fact - that SS, in the end, *was* somebody who harmed  
DD.)

I can't think of other long-in-advance foreshadowing (i.e. from HP1 
to HP4, e.g. - like this one was from HP3 to HP6) on the top of my 
head, but I'm sure there are a lot of other examples. 

Have to admit, despite its flaws in terms of 'literary' writing, HP 
series will make a wonderful PhD topic :)) I'm already looking 
foreward to it.

Cheers,
Lolita