The Last Place He'll Think To Look

An interesting theory... and thought-provoking too! The Last Place He'll Think To Look is an excellent editorial. Read!!!

Just a quicky...

Comment on this!!! My explination of a theory...

According to J.K. Rowling, the two way mirror will make another appearance in a future book. The mirror was not even mentioned in HBP, meaning that it must be used in DH. Since we know that Harry cannot use the mirror to comunicate with Sirius (he tried that), then the mirror must be used a different way. Either Harry will keep one and Ron, Hermione, Ginny, or another member of the order will keep the other as a form of communication (which is possible), or it will be used as a mirror. By this I do not mean a way to show Harry how messy his hair is, but as a form of scrying. Yes, I know scrying is a form of divination which both Harry and Ron failed (and Hermione quit), but, if you do not remember, Harry has predicted the future before. Where? In divination! He started making up something for Trelawney and decided to tell her that he saw a Hippogriff flying away unharmed. As you will recall, Buckbeak was saved later that evening and was seen by Harry and Hemione flying away, unharmed, with Sirius on his back.

While this may not be true divination, it may show that Harry has that potential, or that great of instincts. Harry may have thought he was making it up, but that story had to come from somewhere. Perhaps he was basing it off of hope that Hagrid would not have to endure that. However, Harry normally faces facts. He knew that the desision was final and there was not much he could do. Therefore, it is my belief that he may have been "inspired" when he was creating that story or prediction.

So I leave you with this. If he did it once, maybe he will do it again.

Predictions!!!

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Padfoot

"According to Yorkshire folklore, the Padfoot was an inhabitant of the moorlands around the city of Leeds. it was reported to be in many different shapes: either a great sheep with shaggy fleese and red eyes, a black donkey, or a great white dog. The first that a traveller knows of its apperance is the sound of its footsteps padding behind them in the dark, sometimes accompanied by the clanking of chains. Like th Gytrash and Barguest, it is inadvisable to approach it."

-The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures

Black Dogs

"Black dogs appear throughout British folklore as supernatural creatures who are met on the road by unwary travellers. The calf-sized dog is generally described as being covered with black shaggy hair and having red glowing eyes. Most accounts describe it a ferocious and menacing, although others spaek of the dog as the guardian of the place that it haunts. In the days before metalled roads, most wayfarers used lonely tracks and drover's roads which were kept open by the driving of cattle and other beasts. it is widely assumed that Roman roads were the first roads in Britain, but this is not so.Well-marked causeways were present from the Neolithic and Bronze Age when agriculture required causeways with high embankments as ways of leading animals from field to field. Black dogs often make there apperance upon these ancient roads, near to burial mounds, such as Wambarrows in Somerset. Some of the black dogs are said to guide lost travellers along the way, althoug others can turn vicious, biting and mauling if attacked. It would appear that a black dog is generally a spectral or spirit animal that demarks the boundaries as a guardian and challenges travellers at certain points upon the road.

"In explicable car crashes that happen on empty roads are often believed to have been caused by the black dog. Celtic traditions about spectral hounds and other dogs abound. The most famous literary dog in this genre is the fearsome 'Hound of the Baskervilles,' invented by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for the Sherlock Holmes' story of that title. Interestingly, the term 'to have the black dog' is a colloquial expression for someone who is feeling depressed."

-The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures

Basilisk

The original Basilisk of clasical traditionwas a small venomous serpent whose throat never touched the ground, with a crest upon its head that gave it its name. 'Basileus' is the Greek for 'king,' and this ensured that the snake was remembered as the king of all serpents. Everything about the Basilisk was poisonous.Its bite, glance, saliva, and smell were all fatal. In addition, it could spit venom at flying birds. The venom of the Basilisk could rot the fruit on trees and pollute water. It was concidered to be the cause of the Libyan and Middle Eastern deserts. Pliny described the Basilisk as a snake with white spots or stripes with fiery breath and a death-dealing cry, that had the ability to drive people mad with its poison. The Basilisk shares with Medusa the ability to strike onlookers dead by its glance alone. There were certain strategies that helped protect the traveller during encounters with it: you might carry a crystal globe to reflect back the petrifying stare, you could carry a weasel which can give as good as it gets by way of venomous biting, or you could take a cockerel with you, since its crowing would send the Basilisk into fits.

"The magical property of the Basilisk is primarily the power to protect whatever you want kept safe from theft of attack. Many Gnostic seals of the late classical era carry the image of the basilisk in order to ward off evil, in much the same way that the military breastplates carry a gorgonian (an image of the Meedusa's head).; Because one of the main antidots to the Basilisk was to carry a cockerel, the creatue changed its shape in medieval legend, becoming a serpent with a cockerel's head, neck, and legs, but retaining its serpent tail. Valian forms give it a human face on a cockerel's head and dragon's wings. A great brass cannon was named after it in Tudor times in the hope that enemies would be stricken down as fatally as though by the venom of the beast itself. For Christian, the Basilisk was an ultimat symbol of the devil in his form as the one who tempted our first parents, Adam and Eve: beautiful in form and colour but deadly to the human race.

"A serpentine Basilisk appears in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where Harry finally defeats it with the sword brought to him by Fawks, the Phoenix that lives in Professor Dumbledore's study. He pierces the Basilisk in the eye, depriving him of his petrifying stare."

-The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures

Mirror Gazing

"Mirror gazing is one of the many forms of scrying: divination by looking into a reflective surface. The mirror is used in much the same way as a crystal ball, with the deviner seeing images from the past, present, and future. All types of mirrors have been used, including those with polished metal faces, glass, crystal, and obsidian. The mirror may or may not be enclosed in a frame, and if it is, it is usually engraved or marked in some way with sigils to help amplify the images given.Many diviners say that a black or concave mirror is far superior to any other..."

-The Element Encyclopedia of the Psychic World

Bezoar Stones

"Bezoar derives from the Persian 'pad-zahr,' 'poison expelling.' Bezoar stones are consentrations found in the stomachs of animals, usually goats, credited with antidoting poison and removing illness. The typical method of use is to bind the bezoar to the afflicted area."

- The Element Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells

And My Results...

Harry WILL live through the series. How else would the last word be "scar"?

Leaky Cauldron Predictions Quiz

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