PS/SS - chapter 1, post DH look

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No: HPFGUIDX 180869

As some people know I am home these couple weeks with not being 
allowed much to do, so I figured this would be a perfect time to 
start postDH reread of the series to see how it all fits together 
after last book for me.

I reread PS once last year, but it was still not quite the same 
before last book and every time I reread I find something new, so I 
decided to try. This is not a chapter discussion or anything, it is 
my own little project, and everybody is welcome to join :)


I will just post how some old lines may look anew to me in light of 
what I know now. I will not always commit to post it to every 
chapter and I have no idea how much I will commit to books wise, as 
I said just random musings.

Here we go without further ado.

The first weird thing that jumped at me today is that at some point 
of talking all things Potter I sort of stopped counting this chapter 
as written not from Harry's POV. I mean, it is not like I forgot 
exactly, but pushed back so to speak. Does it matter that narrator 
is more trustworthy here?

"There was no point in worrying Mrs. Dursley; she always got so 
upset 
at any mention of her sister. He didn't blame her – if he'd had a 
sister like that
 but all the same, those people in cloaks" – PS/SS, 
p.5, am.ed.

Alla:
Now when we read Prince's memory I am wondering if Mrs. Dursley 
getting so upset at her sister meant to foreshadow that something 
more than just anger is at play here?

"Mrs. Dursley sipped her tea through pursed lips. Mr. Dursley 
wondered whether he dared to tell her he'd heard the name "Potter". 
He decided he didn't dare" – p.7

Alla:
He decided he did not dare
 Does it mean what I think it means? Is 
it already a foreshadowing that Petunia has no problems dictating 
her will to Vernon as she did in OOP when she insisted that Harry 
stays?

"Albus Dumbledore didn't seem to realize that he had just arrived in 
a street where everything from his name to his boots was unwelcome" –
p.9

Alla:
One cannot help but think about Dumbledore's visit to Dursleys in 
HBP, but is it also about Petunia's feelings about Dumbledore "not 
allowing" her to go to Hogwarts? And what about the name and boots? 
Does it mean simply that the name is too abnormal? Or does it mean 
something else?



"I know you haven't, said Professor Mcgonagall, sounding half 
exasperated, half admiring. But you're different. Everyone knows 
you're the only one You-Know- oh all right, Voldemort was frightened 
of.
You flatter me, said Dumbledore calmly. Voldemort had  powers I will 
never have.
Only because you're too – well – noble to use them "– p.11

Alla:

We all know this infamous exchange of course, but when I was 
rereading it today, I had a thought, well two actually. Minerva 
manages to fight off her fear and say Voldemort  that early in the 
book. And I was also wondering when Minerva says that only because 
you are too noble to use them, whether she means what I always 
thought she meant.

I always thought that she is talking about Dumbledore's powers that 
he is too noble to use. But in the previous sentence Dumbledore is 
talking about Voldemort's powers. Is it possible that another 
interpretation of this dialogue is that Dumbledore is able to use 
something of Voldemort's? Like object? Does that make sense? 

"It was plain that whatever everyone was saying, she was not going 
to 
believe it until Dumbledore told her it was true" – p.11 -12

Alla:

Do we see foreshadowing of blind trust that order members have in 
Dumbledore already? I mean, we do not know about order members yet 
obviously, so I should say teachers.


"
but how in the name of Heaven did Harry survive?
We can only guess, said Dumbledore. We may never know" – p.12

Alla:

So does this line means that at this point in time Dumbledore does 
not know that Harry is a Horcrux?


Alla:

Well, that's all for now. Please feel free to add what you see in 
the new light after last book if anything.

I will be back with the new installment soon, hehe.