Adoption (was Re: CoS dream - DH scene parallel

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 178914

> Potioncat:
> Good catch! Harry had another dream in SS/PS that involved Draco, 
> Snape and LV, but I can't say there was any connection later on.

zgirnius:
Yes, I think that one was just about events of PS/SS. There was also a 
turban, so we had both Quirrell, the villain, and the red herring, 
Snape, in that dream with Voldemort.

> Potioncat:
> A bit of irony I found is this. In one of the books, I'd guess CoS or 
> PoA Harry says or thinks something along the line of "as likely as 
> being adopted by Snape." Given that Snape swore to protect Harry, and 
> had been watching over him at Hogwarts, he had, in a manner of 
> speaking, adopted Harry. I wish I could remember more about the 
> quote, or what it pertained to. 

zgirnius:
The quote is from GoF, and shows Snape as the usual teacher Harry loves 
to hate. It is the final week of term before Christmas, the Yule Ball 
is coming up, and some teachers are cutting the excited kids some 
slack. We learn Flitwick is letting them play games in class. Then:

> GoF, "The Unexpected Task":
> Other teachers were not so generous. Nothing would ever deflect 
Professor Binns, for example, from plowing on through his notes on 
goblin rebellions - as Binns hadn't let his own death stannd in the way 
of continuing to teach, they supposed a small thing like Christmas 
wasn't going to put him off. It was amazing how he could make even 
bloody and vicious goblin riots sound as boring as Percys cauldron-
bottom report. Professors McGonagall and Moody kept them working until 
the very last second of their classes too, and Snape, of course, would 
no sooner let them play games in class than adopt Harry. Staring 
nastily around at them all, he informed them that he would be testing 
them on poison antidotes during the last lesson of the term.

zgirnius:
And so there is an exam, and Harry performs poorly:

> GoF:
> He found it hard to concentrate on Snape's Potions test, and 
consequently forgot to add the key ingredient - a bezoar - meaning that 
he received bottom marks. He didn't care, though; he was too busy 
screwing up his courage for what he was about to do. When the bell 
rang, he grabbed his bag, and hurried to the dungeon door.

zgirnius:
That more important task being, to ask a girl to the dance <g>. I had 
forgotten that Snape taught the class about bezoars again after the 
first Potions class of PS/SS. 

My impression is that the use of the phrase was Rowling having some fun 
and laughing up her sleeve, because adoption of Harry by Snape is such 
an unlikely seeming event, and yet in a sense, as you say, has already 
happened.