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[mz_annethrope]

No: HPFGUIDX 166814

> Carol responds:
> 
> Re the Eye of Horus or whatever it is: I thought at first that it
> might simply be a Bloomsbury trademark like the little archer, but 
it
> isn't. It appears in the same place on the spine as the ring 
Horcrux
> did on the HBP UK children's editon. It isn't a rune, whatever it 
is.

snip

mz_annethrope here:

The same triangle is the alchemical symbol for fire, Gryffindor's 
element. It's possible the circle with the line drawn through it 
represents niter. Fire and niter: a bit of a bang. But the actual 
alchemical niter symbol doesn't have the line extended beyond the 
circle. Another post suggested the the triangle represented the 
Trinity and by extension each side represented body, soul, and mind. 
(I'm really sorry I can't remember who it was.)For myself I keep on 
thinking about DD's weird instruments.

Carol:

>snip
> I think the vault may be Godric Gryffindor's rather than Hepzibah
> Smith's considering that the house-elf is holding the Sword of
> Gryffindor--and the notable absence of Hepzibah's presumed 
descendant,
> Zacharias Smith. And note the ruby-studded helmet with a griffin on
> it, which very probably belonged to Godric Griffindor. He would 
have
> needed a helmet and armor to go with his sword, and the era would 
be
> right (if we discount unhistorical details like wizards who died in
> 1492 wearing Elizabethan ruffs). Maybe wizarding armor, like 
Hogwarts
> itself (a fourteenth- or fifteenth-century castle built before the
> year 1000), is somewhat ahead of its time. Also, the only precious
> stones in the picture appear to be rubies, associated with Godric
> Gryffindor (his sword is studded with them). Lots of gold, too, and
> red and gold are the Gryffindor colors.
> 
> Or maybe the vault belonged to a certain descendant of Gryffindor
> named Albus Dumbledore, who used to have a griffin door knocker, 
and
> has been willed to Harry? > 

mz_annethrope:

Maybe, but then the armor was made about 500 or 600 years before its 
time. I'll go for artistic license. Or it belonged to Gryffindor's 
descendent. Did anyone notice the little man peeping out of the left 
armhole?

> Laura:
> > Is that Grawp's face in the clouds?  
> 
> Carol:
> Where? I hope not! However, we do see Harry's Prongs Patronus, 
which
> will obviously play a role. (So it's not his Patronus that changes.
> Bet it's Snape's!)
> 
> Someone mentioned Nagini in a Prophecy orb, but I think it's more
> likely a crystal ball. Prophecy orbs only contain the shadowy form 
of
> the Seer speaking the prophecy. (Of course, crystal ball shapes are
> supposed to be shadowy, too, but Trelawney saw what she thought was
> the Grim and believed Harry when he said he could see a 
hippogriff.)
> 

mz_annethrope:

I suspect the "essence divided" snakes from the Book 5 chapter about 
St. Mungo's. And I think that the globe is a crystal ball since I 
don't think snakes can prophesy.

I've been staring at the clouds for a while, maybe too long. I've 
noticed that just below the moon there is a large shape that's just 
like a skull. Below it there is another skull. And below that there 
may be yet another. Farther down is a tau shaped object (a fence?) 
and what might be another tree. If you look back at the skull 
formation just below the moon you can see just above it a head and 
ears and eyes looking left. Attach that to the top of the skull and 
you get a cat. Or, if you stare at this figure for too long it will 
turn into an owl that's looking right at you. Symbols in the cloud? 
Or smoke? It seems to be eminating from behind the castle near the 
possible fence and tree. Could this be where the graveyard is?

mz_annethrope