Chapter 6: The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters
1. P 92/96 Percy—according to the unofficial guide & Arthurian legend, Percival was responsible for the death of his mother & uncle, and “missed the key opportunity given to him to heal the King of the Grail”. Foreshadowing?
2. P 95—Harry watching the Weasleys! Don’t we love them! (Notice that we meet a lot of the important characters for the first time on the train platform). This scene seems to me to represent all Harry wished for (a family) and what the Weasleys eventually come to mean to him.
3. P 98 Ginny is so cute! Ron says that “everywhere else is full,” but the twins say Lee Jordan has a tarantula in the middle of the train.
4. P 104-105: Hermione (she’s a bit annoying, isn’t she) and Neville.
Chapter 7: The Sorting Hat
1. P 117: The Sorting Hat as a horcrux?
2. 120 Both Neville and Seamus take a long time to get sorted
3. 125 Neville’s great-uncle Algie (and his gifts) might be important
Chapter 8: The Potions Master
1. 134 Quirrell’s garlic smell is supposedly to ward off a “vampire” he encountered in Romania—maybe this is where he ran into Voldemort. How convenient to have a Weasley there, should we need to visit.
2. 141 Hagrid seems to know that Snape hates Harry—is it because of James, or something else?
Chapter 9: The Midnight Duel
1. 153 It’s pointed out as a possible clue in the unofficial guide that the trophy room is always unlocked. After it was suggested on mugglecast (I think) that Tom Riddle’s special services to the school trophy (CoS) might be a horcrux, this information jumped at me. If it’s unlocked than it would have been easy for Voldemort to get into it, but he probably wouldn’t have been able to wander around Hogwarts without Dumbledore knowing it… thoughts? The unofficial guide also points out that although the trophy room is on the third floor here, by book for it is on the sixth. Maybe it is a moving room?
2. 157 Could the “Curse of the Bogies” be the Bat-Bogey hex?
3. Neville seems to be hanging around Ron, Hermione, and Harry a lot in this book, but then he basically disappears until the fifth book, where he has a bigger part. Is this a clue that he will be an important ally in the end? Did JKR originally intend for Neville to be closer friends with the trio? Would things have worked out differently had Neville been present at the troll incident (coming in chapter ten) or did he need the time apart to develop his own character (and bravery)?
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