Number 4 Privet Drive and the Order of the Seeker: of Enemies, Friends, Lovers and Saviors

So, it is late here but I just had to get this one out before it slips from my brain-pan - and because I really like it. My brother Steve (the one from whom I got the original idea for the key biblical allusion in the image of the Quidditch seeker, linked to in the post on Krum) and I were on a bit of a drive and I was telling him about some of the stuff I have been writing here, and especially about my prediction of Krum chasing Harry like the golden snitch, and then about Ginny as seeker ... and then it came to me. But only 3 seekers came to me at first, not 4 ... but when I told Steve what I was thinking he brilliantly filled in the 4th seeker in such a way that it suggested not only 4 seekers (besides Harry himself) BUT ALSO a progression in the way each of these actual Quidditch seekers seeks Harry as the Golden Soul/snitch. The part about Krum is based in my prediction of his final "seeking" in book 7 (and since he is the final of the four seekers listed here, this whole post is really predictory in nature) but the remembrance of Malfoy as seeker came, as I said, brilliantly from Steve. So Here they are, in their progressive order (listed in the title of this post): 1. Malfoy, Slytherin Seeker, seeks Harry as Enemy And if he converts in book 7, as we all hope he will, he makes a wonderful chiastic structure of this whole thing in that he will also seek Harry in the same way as does Krum, fitting since both are water elements, from house Slytherin and Durmstrang, respectively. 2. Cho Chang, Ravenclaw seeker, seeks Harry as Friend. I am right now at the point in book 5 where Cho has turned out at the Hogshead meeting of the DA and Harry's Heart is doing backflips over her attention. But we all know that that whole thing (the romance) goes south (wind may invigorate fire but they cannot unite). But if you watch the way she approaches Harry at first, she is really looking for a friend, and particularly one she can relate to in coping with Cedric's death. Harry was the one who was there and bore witness (marturia) to that death, and in book 5 his defense of the truth, against Umbridge's quill (what a blood image), is as much a defense of the honor of Cedric's death (bearing witness to the true gravity of what killed him) as anything else. To come to grips with the death, Cho needs Harry's friendship and his support (remember, Cedric was a seeker too ... and the one to whom Harry lost in book 3 at the match in which he fell from his broom). 3. Ginny, Gryffindor seeker, seeks Harry as Lover. This is pretty clear: it is just after she has won the quidditch match in HBP, that is she has caught he golden snitch, the she "gets" Harry, the Golden Soul, as her lover. 4. Victor Krum, Bulgarian seeker, will (I predict :) ) seek Harry as Savior. Krum will be in hiding from the "dark side" that has sought his soul at Durmstrang and hounded his steps ever since the death of Karkaroff, and he will seek Harry (the Golden Soul) and Hermione as the only ones who ever really respected or cared about him, at least within the scope of main characters (doubtlessly his family does, but they make only a cameo in book 4, and Karkaroff really only uses Krum as a path to fame and glory). Note: Krum, as the first and only non-Hogwarts seeker, represents a globalization of the salvation - in terms of the Judeo-Christian background of the Harry Potter series, he represents (or will represent, I predict) the first fruits of the "mission to the gentiles."