The 24 hours and Harry's first Hogwarts dream (Was Re: First chapter of Book 7)

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 139843

Deb (djklaugh)wrote:
"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 -- and 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.
He rolled over and fell asleep again, and when he woke the next
day, he didn't remember the dream at all".

The first part of the dream seems to be LV attempting to
communicate with Harry ... or is it someone else trying to
communicate because LV at that point was residing at the back of
Quirrell's head bound up in the turban with no power to perform
magic on his own. The turban getting heavy and tightening might be a
foreshadowing of Nagini, parseltongue, and/or the Basilisk for the
dream action suggests the actions of a large snake that crushes it's
prey. And Malfoy laughing... 
For the last part of the dream, it is interesting to me that he
associates Snape(and most particularly his hooked nose-a
distinguishing facial feature), a high and cold laugh (sounds more
like LV to me than Snape), and the burst of green light... So was 
Snape there that night? It seems that might indeed be the
case... But what his role was, what his motives were, and what he
did after that remain to be learned.


vmonte:
It's also interesting that first Malfoy and then Snape is wearing the 
turbin. We know that Draco was not at Godric's Hollow that night 
because he was a baby himself, so perhaps Harry's unconscious sees a 
similarity in D & S's personality right away. The chapter in the 
Philosopher's Stone where we finally meet Voldemort face to face is 
called: The Two Faced Man.

Two faced also means:
  
marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set 
of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a 
deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing 
double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- 
W.M.Thackeray 
 
Vivian