Hidden Clues Water, Hands, Death

[Randy]

No: HPFGUIDX 153634

Hidden Clues (if you look for them)

JKR's choice of words is very interesting when you go back and read 
the older books after reading Half Blood Prince.

In POA (which I am reading again to my middle son this month just 
after we finished HBP), JKR describes Harry's encounter with the 
Dementors.  The images kind of relate to the inferi in the lake in 
the cave.

POA  pp. 83-84  Chapter Five  "The Dementor"

First the description of the Dementor


"There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, 
grayish, slimy-looking, and scabbed, like something dead that had 
decayed in water
."

Dead bodies decaying in water sounds like the guys in the lake in 
the Cave.


But it gets better when you read what happens to Harry
.

"Harry's eyes rolled up into his head.  He couldn't see.  He was 
drowning in cold.  There was a rushing in his ears as though of 
water.  He was being dragged downward, the roaring growing louder
"

This sounds like the cave scene where the inferi hand tries to drag 
Harry into the lake.

"And then, from far away, he heard screaming, terrible, terrified, 
pleading screams.  He wanted to help whoever it was, he tried to 
move his arms, but couldn't
"

I wonder if this is a foreshadowing of another scene at the Lake in 
book Seven where Harry must somehow save someone while he is being 
dragged into the lake of death?

This reminds me of another foreshadowing in this book.

In Chapter Three "The Knight Bus", Harry tells Stan Shunpike that 
his name is Neville Longbottom.  In OOP we learn that there is a 
prophecy which connects the identities of baby Neville and  baby 
Harry forever.

Randy