Percy's sickle <snipped>

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No: HPFGUIDX 150719

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sugaranddixie1" 
<sugaranddixie1 at ...> wrote:
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>  >Diane (new kid on the block)wrote
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>  >I took the silver sickle to be a coin, as in gold galleons, silver 
>  >sickles, and brass knuts.  No?
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> E.T.-
> You're absolutely right... To my understanding, what Percy physically 
> found was a coin.  I was just wondering if that coin being called 
> a "sickle" might denote an omen. 
> 
> E.T.- who knows that sometimes a cigar is probably just a cigar, but 
> thinks life is more interesting when it's not!!!
>

Angie here:

I thought there was some sort of tradition about finding a coin in food 
being good luck.  But then again, when I first read about Percy finding 
the sickle, for some reason, I thought of Judas and the 33 pieces of 
silver.