Number 7 Ankh rune

[exodusts]

No: HPFGUIDX 149645

> Tonks:
>
> While exploring some of what I think JKR maybe using as the basis 
> for her books I came upon an interesting discovery.  I stopped 
> reading and said "that's it!!"  That is the Rune symbol for the 
> number 7 on her website!!  Now it is not 100% the same, but I think 
> that she used the same picture that I saw and tweaked it just a 
> bit.  I have seen this symbol before, but never like the one I saw 
> in this picture.
> 
> It was a picture from ancient Egypt.  And the symbol was the Ankh.  
> Now as I said, I have seen this symbol before and it just didn't 
> register. But the way this picture was printed brings out different 
> features of the item in a way that I had not seen it before.  All 
> one has to do is to just round down the two sides and add a forth 
> leg and *** presto*** like magic you have the symbol on JKR's  
> website.
> 
> And what does the book say that the Ankh symbol represents?  It 
says 
> that it is the ancient (remember ancient magic) symbol of life, the 
> universe, and man. 
> 
> Now to speculate a bit. Perhaps the fact that there are 4 instead 
of 
> 3 appendages represent the 4 houses of Hogwarts.  I think that JKR 
> said in an interview that she wanted the Houses to represent the 4 
> directions. (I can't find the quote, but if anyone else can please 
> direct me to it. Thanks.)
> 
> I think that JKR is using her own version of the Egyptian Ankh.  
> (There must be some reason we kept hearing about Egypt in the other 
> books.) I just intutively think that the Ankh symbol and what it 
> represents is going to be somehow, with a bit of a twist of course, 
> be important in book 7.
> 
> Tonks_op


Exodusts:

I'll make you another crazy Book 7 prediction right now, for separate 
reasons that I'll keep to myself:

Ancient Egypt is going to play a role in the last book. Something to 
do with Bill Weasley and his Egyptian tombs. A curse.

That's it! :-)