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Comment author: buybuydandavis 09 September 2013 10:00:16AM *  3 points [-]

I really need to start collecting these, as they are so blatant.

Foreshadowing Alert:

“You’re nuts,” Daphne stated with conviction. “Even if you had kissed him first, you know what that would make you? The sad little lovestruck girl who dies in the hero’s arms at the end of Act Two.”

And it just so happen that the little girl who kissed Harry first in fact does die in his arms.

“One of my classmates gets bitten by a horrible monster, and as I scrabble frantically in my mokeskin pouch for something that could help her, she looks at me sadly and with her last breath says, ‘Why weren’t you prepared?’ And then she dies, and I know as her eyes close that she won’t ever forgive me—”

Hermione’s lips were moving, just a tiny bit but they were moving. “your... fault...”
Time froze. Harry should have told her not to talk, to save her breath, only he couldn’t unblock his lips.
Hermione drew in another breath, and her lips whispered, “Not your fault.”

Didn't this seem like a rather peculiar glitch in The Matrix? Like the story got rewritten in real time?

And then

With a fracturing feeling, as though time was still torn to pieces around him, Harry turned away from Dumbledore and looked down

find his way to the root of all magic and reprogram it.

” She’d known she wouldn’t be able to explain. “It’s not about glory, it’s about being— something that belongs to someone else!”

And of course:

I don’t know if our love has any magical power under your rules, but if it does, don’t hesitate to call on it.