Quick question

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Kirstin Innes <kirst_inn at y...> wrote:
>
> Caveat: I know you never hear from me round these
> parts, but I read every digest faithfully.
> 
> Something that has been bothering me for a while - can
> anyone point me in the direction of a (presumably TOL)
> post explaining the way the seven tasks in PS
> correalate with the seven books? I know it's a
> recognised theory, and thinking through it myself I
> can see that it makes a lot of sense. However, I was
> lying in bed the other night trying to work out how
> they all equalled up - tasks, books - and I couldn't
> for the life of me make or PS, CS fit satisfactorily,
> and I'm a little wobbly on POA/GOF, too. Here's as far
> as I got (all a bit scrappy/notey):

Pippin:

Here's one theory
http://www.mugglenet.com/editorials/editorials/edit-sylvia02.shtml

Here's my version:

First task -- Fluffy, three headed monster.
     Two-faced Quirrell plus Voldemort's hidden accomplice (Snape or ?)

Second task -- Devil's Snare 
     Harry is trapped in the chamber and rescued by the Firebird

Third task-- keys
    Harry rescues a prisoner

Fourth task -- chess tournament (you got confused on the order)
    The Triwizard tournament

Fifth task -- the dead Troll
    Harry accepts death and moves on

Sixth task -- potions puzzle
    Snape  and a reverse logic puzzle. It's impossible to solve the
bottle puzzle as given, but knowing the solution you can reconstruct
two possible initial orders of the bottles.  Interestingly, it's the
third and fourth bottles that are ambiguous, suggesting to me
that the bottles might correspond to the DADA teachers.
For more on the riddle see

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essays/essay-potionriddle.html

Seventh task --Mirror of Erised
  Harry will discover the hidden accomplice (NOT who he expects)
and achieve his hearts desire. 


Pippin