37SS

Ok.. didn't want to wait.. so here it is:

"No one, it was addressed to you by mistake," said Uncle Vernon shortly. "I have burned it."

And Harry moved upstairs to Dudley's old room.
It wasn't until the Dursley's realized they were being monitored, that they did anything good for Harry's well-being. Even then, they moved him into the junk room.. probably something worthy of "Clean Sweep".

OK.. that's kind of weird.. since Harry does get a Clean Sweep.. *shakes head* It is too late to try to figure out something that bizarre.

Items of note: month old broken video camera; a kicked in television; a small working tank that Dudley ran over a dog with. (?); a bent air-rifle.. (which leads me to wonder what sort of firearms are Brits allowed to own?) and a large bird-cage.

Wonder if he gets to use it for Hedwig? But then, I sort of doubt it. A: they wouldn't have let him use it... B: he would have had to bring Hedwig home in something.. so I am thinking he bought one in Diagon Alley.

Even though they try to start treating him differently, Harry is still treated poorly, but these people are so warped, they don't know, notice or care.

This is the beginning of the beginning for Harry.

For the daughter who expected to see the treatise on snakes, boas and Nagini.. I apologize.. and say that you should help read my page numbers!!! :-) and no.. bi-focals wouldn't have helped.. I figured it out this time!! :-)

437HBP

"Now then," said Hepzibah happily, " Where's Hokey? Oh yes, there you are--- take that away now, Hokey."

And Hokey (hocus pocus?) takes away the cup of Hufflepuff.. So Hepzibah Smith (a Hufflepuff) can show Tom the locket of Slytherin. She also tells him the story about it.

Wonder what fate became of Burke??? Or did Tom, who didn't care or love anyone.. not even care about his mother getting rooked?

Now, we have seen at the end of this book what an important role this locket has and will have.

There are many things on Page 37 that come to play by the end of Bk6.

side note... if you haven't read the Draco Trilogy by Cassandra Claire... you must do so...some of my reference points will be off of that.. in the side bars.. and I wouldn't want you to get lost. Besides.. it is a GREAT story!!!!!! Suffice it to say, that if this Hufflepuff cup ends up disguised as Hermione's barrette.. I will say that Jo needs to lay off the fanfic!! LOL At the very least, read Draco Veritas.. wherein lies most of Jo's references to Cassie anyhow.

And so, for tonight, I am done adding spots about the 37's. I will start next with SS... and you will see even more, what I mean about the oddly significant info that is popping up.

337HBP

"Definitely not."

"Oh." Harry stared into the fire. "I just thought---well, he's helped me ot a lot in Potions classes, the Prince has."

"How old is this book, Harry?"

Shortly after Lupin gives him the clue to look into the past of the book.. Fleur starts singing "A Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love."

The kids go to bed, but Harry gets out his potions book, to see when it was published, and discovers it is fifty years old. Now.. that puts Eileen Prince at Hogwarts when Voldy would have been there. Just as a thought.

Harry dreams about creeping shadows and the cries of bitten children....

Ron wakes up on Christmas to be given the heavy gold chain to wear around his neck.. from Lav Lav.

Now... Besides the important clues about Eileen Prince having been at Hogwarts when Tom Riddle was... I think that the song Fleur sings is a very big clue to Snape.

Everything is about that potions book..
The potions book was Snape's...
Snape was loved...
"A Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love" = Snape.. :-)

Another time.. perhaps on Rachel and Racie's blog.. I am going to firmly discuss why I think Snape has a son somewhere.. but again.. that's another story.

237HBP

Silver and Opals

"Where was Dumbledore, and what was he doing?"

Harry wondered where D'dore was... but more profoundly, Harry wondered if he had been abandoned.

Harry's terrible childhood certainly could point to how he would feel abandoned when his mentor had been silent and absent for many days, unaccountably.

Harry ultimately WAS abandoned by D'dore... (or so it seems).

Also on this page, Harry is looking fwd to a trip to Hogsmead, and 'whiles away the time' reading his copy of "Advanced Potion Making".

Reading any sort of text book for fun (unless it is about Quidditch).. just isn't like the Harry of old. This is entering new territory for him.

Did D'dore find a way to get that book to Harry, for what it contained? The free thinking.. the making up of your own spells.. the getting to know your own talents by pushing the limit.. thinking 'outside the box'.. These are all good lessons that Harry must learn. And here he sits, reading his potions book on his own time.

137HBP

"Hello, Harry," said a girl with long hair and large misty eyes, who was just behind Neville.

"Luna, hi, how are you?"

I want to bring in to this, just how much things have changed in a year. How much Harry has grown up. Bk5, he wanted to hide from Cho when she caught him with the very uncool Luna and Neville. This year... he gets snippy back to Romalda Vane about how these people are his friends, and he enjoys their company.

Also, if he had snubbed them, would they have had the same relationship all year? Would they have responded to the call later on in Bk6?

We all notice that it is the same six who battle here as did in Bk5... but here, let's discuss Luna and Neville.

Harry tells them that they have their 'fame' in their own right, from having fought at the Ministry.

"Cherry and unicorn hair," he said proudly. "We think it was one of the last Ollivander ever sold, he vanished the next day---, oi come back here, Trevor!"

And he dived under the seat to retrieve his toad as it made one of its frequent bids for freedom.

"Are we still doing D.A. meetings this year, Harry?" asked Luna.

Two more things of note for this page. There seems to be something significant and ominous about Ollivander disappearing right after selling Neville his wand. What huge deal is that??? We are all told that Neville isn't the one to do Voldy in... but there must be something to Ollivander waiting to sell THAT wand.

The other thing is how Luna asks about the DA. That was very important to her and Neville both. Look what it has done for them... look what they have done for Harry, et al. It was no passing fad to Luna or Neville.

37HBP

"I will," said Snape.

Bellatrix's astounded face glowed red in the blaze of a third tongue of flame, which shot from the wand, twisted with the others, and bound itself thickly around their clasped hands, like a rope, like a fiery snake.

That's the whole page. But what a lot it says.

"I will." We know, from the context of the previous pages, that he is taking a vow that he WILL help Draco.

Also, he means he WILLS it to be. Will is a very powerful word, not to be taken lightly here.

I also find it illuminating (pun sort of intended) that this scene is one that is depicted on one of the book covers. (side note... who is the fourth child on the back cover of the American version? I am going with Draco... *shrug*)

Bella is very suprised at Snape. She is astounded. Apparently, she thought he wouldn't go through with it. So he is more firmly 'set' in her eyes. AND... she is in this as much as Cissy and Sev now. I think Sev can get out of it from Voldy, but I think Draco and his mum had better make for the hills. Also, Bella is Draco's auntie, as Sev even mentions later on. She is just as far in.. so I think she isn't going to be garnering any favors from old Snake-face anytime soon. "make room.. here comes Aunt Bella!"

*shudder* LOL

637HBP

"What about him?" asked Harry heavily, slumping back in his chair.

Hermione goes on to tell him about Eileen Prince being Snape's mother. How she was married to Tobias Snape.... a Muggle.

He broke off, looking out the window. He could not stop himself dwelling upon Dumbledore's inexcusable trust in Snape. . .

Bear in mind, taking that out of context, it is a very telling sentence... or so it seems.. but in any case..

Snape was loved. Dumbledore says that that is what sets him apart from Voldemort.. (side topic while I don't want to forget it........ why does D'dore call him LORD Voldemort? Why the title??? sort of how he insists Harry, et al call Sevvie Professor?) So... Sev is loved.. presumably by his mother.
Would Snape sell out his mother? Or would he have taken his mother into hiding, as D'dore had promised Draco he would do??

This is where I noticed Page 37, as being significant. This is also where I started wondering where would D'dore hide Sev's mother?

Hogwart's, it stands to reason. So I decided to start looking into who I thought his mother might be. Please, though, this isn't the treatise on all things Snape. This is page 37... so if you are interested, please look at Rachel and Racie's blog, where we are discussing all things Snape.

537HBP.... The Beginning

The end is actually the beginning. I was actually researching Snape's mother when I realized the odd things occurring on all pages 37. Hence, I start where I began: BTW.. I do realize that 637 is really the last canon 37... but I am getting there.. come along for the ride.

...Hermione had told him off for distracting Ginny when she ought to be working hard for her examinations.
"The so-called HalfBlood Prince."
"Oh, not again," he groaned. "Will you please drop it?"

Continuing on through the same argument they had over the broomstick Sirius sent years ago... on to the last paragraph...

Harry picked up the crumbling piece of paper and stared at tHe moving photograph, yellowed wth age; Ron leaned over for a look too. The picture showed a skinny girl of around fifteen. She was not pretty; she looked simultaneously cross and sullen, with heavy brows and a long pallid face. Underneath the photograph was the caption: EILEEN PRINCE, CAPTAIN OF THE HOGWARTS GOBSTONES TEAM.

I am sure there is more on this page, after reviewing all the others, and seeing what sort of things end up proving valuable as clues, we will come back to these two first "37" posts, and find more information hidden. Please feel free to post anything from page 537 here, that you think is significant.

You will understand more after a few more posts. :-)