Sectum Sempra and Quidditch

Here is a part I forgot to include in the Sectum Sempra post and I thought it important enough to accent it with its own post. One of the things that made me think of Snape directly being involved in doing Voldemort in and one of the primary reasons I like it is Rowling's ability for introducing something that challenges the way you thought about things and also introducing it in a minor way as a foreshadow or hint of how things will unfold later. Before book four we had all heard the rules of Quidditch and knew, somewhere back in the dusty parts of our minds, that you could catch the Snitch without winning the game (cf my post on this following a conversation with my brother Steve), but it was not until Fred and George made their bet with Ludo Bagman and the world Quidditch cup that it actually came to the forefront of our minds that this could happen (I simply love everything that has anything at all to do with the Weasely twins, they rock!). Krum (a water element like Snape) displays his great prowess as a seeker regardless of whether Bulgaria wins the game. And I think Snape will reveal his truly mystical nature despite Harry being the "hero" and the fact that Snape dies in the process (at least that is my prediction). We all thought that, whether Harry is a Horcrux or whether he lives or dies, he will be the sole person directly involved in undoing Voldy - but I think JKR plans to surprise us ... and I thoroughly expect to weep when Snape dies (if my prediction is right). NOTE: I have no backing for this in the realm of an alchemical reading. These considerations are more post-modern psychological mode of reading literature, but (as I have said before, but can't remember where) I think this is part of JKR's way of writing. She structures the books on alchemical structure and symbols and medieval literary method and symbols, but she also works in more contemporary psychological understandings in things such as the dementors and Azkaban (as it is difficult for any post-Shakespearian writer not to do, save somebody like Tolkien who had specific beefs with Shakespeare and the realm of "drama"). As I said (in that same place I have forgotten the location of), psychology done legitimately is another mode of contemplating the same thing as Alchemy does, the soul (the word "psyche" originally meaning "soul" rather than "mind" - the mind is what would be called the "rational soul" - hence many neuroses involve what you "believe" about yourself or think you "understand" about yourself)