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[Ana]

No: HPFGUIDX 149493

Hi, everyone.
Im new in the list, just thought Id introduce myself before posting. :)


Tonks:
(...) Will Sirius tell Harry the secret of the lightning 
bolt?  Why is the chapter in which DD dies called "the Lightning 
Struck Tower"??? I think there are connections here.

Ana:

I think the name of the chapter is a reference to the prediction made by Trelawney - (tarot?) card reading - in chapter 25 ("The seer overheard")of HBP. 

" The Headmaster has intimated that he would prefer fewer visits from me,' she said coldly. I am not one to press my company upon those who do not value it. If Dumbledore chooses to ignore the warnings the cards show -'
Her bony hand closed suddenly around Harry's wrist.
'Again and again, no matter how I lay them out -'
And she pulled a card dramatically from underneath her shawls.
'- the lightning-struck tower,' she whispered. 'Calamity. Disaster. Coming nearer all the time ...' "


Perhaps it means not all of Trelawneys predictions are made up... But, who knows? Shes bound to get it right some times, I think.


Ana - Not a native English speaker, as you might have noticed.