The Eagle Owl/Re: Harry's dreams in GoF

[Shaunette Reid]

No: HPFGUIDX 165720

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> wrote:
>
> Shaunette:
> 
> > I do remember wondering about that owl and that 
> > strange POV, too... however, I also remember Harry 
> > looking down on a pair of white, long-fingered hands 
> > resting on an armchair, his own hands (in the dream), 
> > something happens with Wormtail... then Harry looks 
> > into a dirty old mirror across the room into a flat, 
> > snakelike face with gleaming red eyes...that's when 
> > he woke up in a cold sweat, isn't it?
> 
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> Right after Harry's interview was published in The 
> Quibbler, he and the other Gryffindors were celebrating 
> in the common room.  Fred and George put an engorgement 
> charm on the front cover and hung it on the wall. Harry's 
> giant head gazed down upon the proceedings, saying 
> things like "The Ministy are Morons" and "Eat dung, 
> Umbridge". As the spell wore down, it merely shouted 
> words like "dung" and "Umbridge".  Harry's scar began 
> to prickle and his head hurt.  He went to bed and fell 
> asleep.  Then
> 
> **********************
> He was standing in a dark curtained room lit by a 
> single branch of candles.  His hands were clenched 
> on the back of the chair infront of him.  They were 
> long-fingered and white as if they had not seen 
> sunlight for years and looked like large, pale 
> spiders against the dark velvet of the chair.
> **********************
> 
> Voldemort is interrogating Rookwood.  Harry not 
> only sees from Voldemort's prespective, he *is* Voldemort.
> 
> **********************  
> "You have done well to tell me this," said Harry.
> ...
> Left alone in the dark room, Harry turned toward 
> the wall.  A cracked, age-spotted mirror hung on 
> the wall in the shadows.  Harry moved toward it.  
> His reflection grew larger and clearer in the 
> darkness....A face whiter than a skull...red 
> eyes with slits for pupils...
> **********************
> 
> OotP, Scholastic paperback, pp.584-586
>

Ah! So I had gone mad after all! Two completely separate dreams, and
the owl one hadn't anything to do with *being* Voldemort, as is being
discussed. Thank you, houyhnhnm, that clears everything up for me
perfectly :)
-Shaunette, happily unconfused