CoS dream - DH scene parallel

Miles miles at martinbraeutigam.de
Thu Nov 8 01:21:45 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 178909

As far as I followed the list, several people who reread the first books
after Deathly Hollows found many hints and details only understandable after
the completion of the entire series.

I just finished CoS, and found one scene to be more than just a detail:

>From ch 13  Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw CoS:
"He [Harry] had a very strange dream. He was walking through a forest, his
Firebolt over his shoulder, following something silvery white. It was
winding its way through the trees ahead, and he could only catch glimses of
it between the leaves. Anxious to catch up with it, he sped up, but as he
moved faster, so did his quarry. Harry broke into a run and ahead, he heard
hooves gathering speed..."

>From ch 19 The Silver Doe DH:
"It was a silver-white doe, moon-bright and dazzling, picking her way over
the ground, still silent, and leaving no hoof prints in the fine powdering
of snow. (...)
He felt that he had been waiting for her to come, but that he had forgotten,
until this moment, that they had arranged to meet. (...)
... then she turned and walked away. (...)
She continued to step deliberately through the trees, and soon her
brightness was striped by their thick, black trunks. (...) But instinct,
overwhelming instinct, told him that this was not Dark Magc. He set off in
pursuit.
Snow crunched beneath his feet, but the doe made no noise as she passed
throught the trees, for she was nothing but light. Deeper and deeper into
the forest she led him, and Harry walked quickly, sure that when she
stopped, she would allow him to approach her properly."

First, I do see that this is not perfectly parallel, but I think the
similarity of the scene is striking. Plus, we can't really see any sense in
this dream in the context of CoS, but very much in the context of DH.
"He felt that he had been waiting for her to come, but that he had
forgotten, until this moment, that they had arranged to meet." - does Harry
subconsciously remember this dream? If this would be real life, I'd say
"coincidence", but this is fiction, so I think we should consider that JKR
intended this dream in Harry's third year to become important four fictional
years later.

What do you think? Do you have similar parallels, maybe more dreams that
only gained importance in the last book?

Miles





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