![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is actually a website dedicated to this theory. ‘Bin’ is also a prefix meaning ‘double’ or ‘two’ - think ‘binary.’ Was Ron ‘born’ twice? Leading a double life? Is Draco trying to tell us something important?” While Draco likes to make fun of Ron’s poverty, the phrase has a double meaning. He is heard singing it loudly during the game by Harry, and Draco later quotes it in italics - born in a bin. One line in particular is given significance by Draco. If that isn’t foreshadowing, I don’t know what is. The fan also thinks Latin meaning (a running theme in the book) of the word ‘bin’ is significant: “In OotP, Draco composes a lovely song - Weasley is Our King. When we first meet Ron he introduces Harry to the wonderful world of wizarding candy”). “If the chess game in is a metaphor for the series as a whole, and the pieces the characters play a metaphor for their roles in the series, how do we reconcile the fact that Ron Weasley plays, not only the role of the Knight, but also that of the King - the same role played by Albus Dumbledore in the larger war? Pretty simple, really - Albus Dumbledore is Ron Weasley.” The theorist proceeds to explain that the characters also have an uncanny resemblance (Dumbledore’s long fingers, Ron’s large hands) and a love of sweets (“When we first meet Dumbledore he offers a lemon sherbet to Professor McGonagall. This can get confusing, so get your quills ready. In 2004, while many were still rereading Order of the Phoenix and eagerly awaiting the Prisoner of Azkaban movie, someone on a Harry Potter forum was blogging about the fact that Ron was really a time-traveling version of Dumbledore, or vice versa. She says suggested, at least, not acknowledging that it is, in fact, true. “Because I’ve heard it suggested to me more than once, that Harry actually did go mad in the cupboard and that everything that happened subsequently was some sort of fantasy life he developed to save himself.” “I think that’s a fabulous point and that speaks so perfectly to the books,” Rowling responds. “The point was that he seemed slightly mad…so when Hagrid appeared, you thought he was out of his imagination for a minute,” Kloves says on the video. Steve Kloves, a screenwriter for the film series, said he invented a spider who Harry would talk to in the cupboard. Rowling addressed these ideas herself in a 2012 video that accompanied a box set of the movies. This might seem like the Dementor of all theories - because it sucks all light and happiness out of the series - but J.K. Some conspiracy theorists have posited that Harry, who is deprived food by his aunt and uncle in the first book, hallucinated the entire story as he was starving in the cupboard under the stairs. And with Pottermore’s launch in 2012, fans are now continually rewarded with a slow trickle of new information. Rowling joined Twitter and actively started answering - and dismissing - fan theories and questions. It wasn’t until 2009, about two years after Deathly Hallows was released, that fans got a break. Many of these theories were born in the early days of social media, when websites like The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet were the only places Potter brainiacs could go to spill their suspicions. The very nature of the series has always invited fan theories (like the one suggesting PMS is the real reason Moaning Myrtle is always moaning), thanks to dense plots filled with red herrings and a cohesive mythology.Īnd as more and more time lapsed between book releases - there were 1,078 days between the publication of Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix - fans had ample time to reread and analyze their favorite plot lines. Just like Hermione Granger, Potterheads never give up on a mystery. ![]()
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