Harry Potter: 18 Examples of Foreshadowing

[@reneeevers]

In Philosopher's Stone, Ollivander tells Harry that his father James had a wand of mahogany and that type of wood is "excellent for transfiguration". Two books later we learn in The Prisoner of Azkaban that James Potter was, indeed, an unregistered Animagus.

[@sunkure141]

hmm. nice point

[@klockowycebulion7874]

I remember it! Reading about it in Prisoner of Azkaban was so interesting.

[@mkhurramali9513]

I noticed that!

[@grapefanta5975]

Oh cool! But I don’t think you need a wand to turn into an Animagus since it doesn’t require any spells, unlike Transfiguration

[@nickstheory6610]

@@grapefanta5975 yeah but I feel like you need to be REALLY good at transfiguration to become an animagus

[@vkohli17]

My favourite foreshadowing is Hagrid foreshadowing Horcruxes ("not enough human left in him to die") in book 1: "Some say he died. Codswallop in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die." Gave me chills the first time I noticed.

[@Supermelo29]

Holy shit, good one!

[@Tabbychu]

Yooooo omg. That just gave me chills myself. I never noticed that before!!

[@Therockgotnothinonme]

HAGRID KNEW?

[@sunitapatil8595]

@@Therockgotnothinonme "Shouldn't have said that."

[@suhanisharma8944]

@@sunitapatil8595 lol

[@f.r.etling6226]

You missed one about Dobby. In the end of Chamber of Secrets, Harry tells Dobby "Never try to save my life again", foreshadowing Dobby's death because he saved Harry's life.

[@cameronsmith5355]

i think about that all the time.

[@lamoinette23]

Oh. 😔

[@ОльгаПетрова-у5з]

Oh my

[@miriamjclark14]

​@@cameronsmith5355same

[@Kaiser2019]

R.I.P Dobby 😢

[@simonvanberlo983]

One of the most interesting foreshadowing in the hp series is the foreshadowing that snape is the half blood prince. This is hinted at earlier in OOTP when Harry visits snapes memorie about him being bullied. In this memory harry watches snape take his DADA OWL exam and notices that snapes handwriting is small and cramped. Exactly the same as the handwriting of the halfblood prince was described.

[@lauraslade5308]

I never noticed that omg

[@Efwin197]

The bigger one was “I understand what a nickname is potter

[@FatRonaldo1]

I was always confused as to how Harry couldn’t recognise his teacher of 5 years handwriting

[@serenas.3842]

@@FatRonaldo1 Did you have the same handwriting in highschool you have now as an adult? Because I for sure know that my students would never recognize my handwriting even if I would give them two examples (one of my 16 year old self and one of my current, 30 year old self) side by side. Sure, there are similarities, but it massively changed in time.

[@FatRonaldo1]

@@serenas.3842 fair enough, I’ve only just left school so didn’t really think of this

[@JuanMataCFC]

one really cool foreshadowing moment u didn't mention was Trelawney predicting the deaths of both Dumbledore & Sirius. in PoA she refuses to join the table, saying "if 13 dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die". but because Ron had Scabbers (aka Wormtail) with him, they were already 13 at the table before she joined them. Dumbledore rose from the table to welcome her to join them, and indeed Dumbledore was the first to die among that group of 13 people! when Harry came back to Grimmauld Place after his hearing at the Ministry, the Order celebrated the outcome by having dinner together. they were 13 at the table again, and this time Sirius was the first to rise, and indeed the first to die! she also predicted Dumbledore's death a few times in HBP with her tarot card readings. one of her cards is "the Lightning-Struck Tower" which signifies a disaster/calamity coming nearer & nearer. fittingly the chapter where Dumbledore dies is also titled "the Lightning-Struck Tower"!

[@Supermelo29]

holy cow

[@harinikandru2520]

I knew that Dumbledore would be the first to die before I read this comment But Sirius dying because he was the first to rise ( I never knew ) Love how much detail was put in writing the books

[@Supermelo29]

@@harinikandru2520 Same for me

[@DarthAxolotl]

Thats the funny thing, if you look into it all of trelawny's predictions were actually right

[@harinikandru2520]

@@DarthAxolotl does that mean he is going to have 13 children

[@averykelley3810]

Aberforth is also foreshadowed in HBP when they are visiting the memory of Voldemort asking Dumbledore for the DADA position and Dumbledore says he knows that all of the Death Eaters are currently at the Hog’s Head. When Voldemort asks him how he knows that he says he’s “friendly with the barmen.” Super subtle foreshadowing but I love it!

[@deco_boi]

Also in OOTF I’m pretty sure it says Aberforth looks familiar to Harry

[@maddiedodge9204]

I was gonna say that!! I noticed it during my most recent read of HBP and i was like wow!!

[@Jake0666]

I noticed that when I did a recent re read it’s a pretty cool line

[@itssimplylolaASMR]

whats HBP?

[@nealfirstofhisname]

@@itssimplylolaASMR Half-blood Prince.

[@rjsouthworth5246]

In OOTP, Aunt Petunia reveals that she knows about Dementors because “I heard that awful boy telling her (Lily) about them.” Harry (and the reader) assumes she’s referring to James, but we find out in DH that she actually meant Snape!

[@razmi_]

I LUV THIS ONEEE

[@goldeneyespectre8447]

Fun Fact: In Philosophers Stone, Rowling writes that Fred and George were throwing snow balls at the back of Quirrell's head. In reality they were unknowingly throwing snowballs into Voldemort's face. 🐍😡🌨

[@axthxticemma1203]

Omg loll

[@narayanhqhqh]

yah but whats with the emojis 🤡🚮

[@goldeneyespectre8447]

@@narayanhqhqh 🐍😡-Voldemort 🌨Snowball

[@Therockgotnothinonme]

Lol

[@rickiclark4356]

I always loved that part after my first read through!

[@Henryzzhang]

In Philosopher's stone, while in Potion's class, Harry thought to himself, "he sometimes had the horrible feeling that Snape could read minds." Which foreshadows the fact that Snape was able to read minds(Occlumency)

[@Ubiquitous33]

Legilimency* Occlumency is blocking people from reading your mind or at least hiding your true intentions/feelings.

[@0mathgaming]

Occlemency is the ability to close one's mind off from being read. The ability to read minds is called Legilimency.

[@ОльгаПетрова-у5з]

@@0mathgaming Snape can do both

[@0mathgaming]

@@ОльгаПетрова-у5з I never said he couldn’t. Besides, he needed to be good at occlemency not only to teach Harry but to also fool Voldemort.

[@miriamjclark14]

🤯🤯🤯

[@johnthedutchman564]

Harry's dream about him wearing the turban not only for shadows Quirrel but also the horcrux in Harry himself.

[@leviblum]

Wow

[@roseviolet4147]

Indeed. Foreshadows that Harry also has a bit of Voldemort attached to him and their minds linked later when we reach Book 5

[@doctoquack7829]

Voldemort telling Wormtail that he will receive a task that others would give a right hand for was always my favorite.

[@arandominternetuser66]

Haha never noticed till now

[@Dandidoodles]

Thats one of my favorite lines in book 4 😅

[@simonefiumicini]

voldemort and his stand up comedy skills

[@tanmayjain3543]

@@simonefiumicini lol

[@ОльгаПетрова-у5з]

Wow-ho-ho

[@kuirul]

Another example is Mrs. Figg. It is mentioned in the beginning of Book one that she occasionally babysitted Harry when his aunt and uncle were out. But it is not until Book 5 that readers know that in fact Dumbledore sent her to protect Harry

[@willywoowah]

Here’s another detail: In the Prisoner of Azkaban, during his Divination Final, Professor Trelawney asks Harry fear he sees in the Crystal Ball, Harry can’t see anything. He comes up with a Hippogriff. Trelawney thinks he sees the demise of Buckbeak, but Harry says he sees the hippogriff flying away, with its head. That later happens when Harry and Hermione save Sirius from The Dementirs Kiss and Buckbeak from Execution. Sirius rides on Buckbeaks back as Buckbeak flies away into the moonlit horizon.

[@chandureddy674]

Yeah, I noticed that the first time

[@ziephel-6780]

Either it foreshadowed Sirius's demise or the grim warns Harry of his own death in the future

[@sunkure141]

nice plot point but buckbeek is already executed when the trio was heading back to the castle they just went back in time but yeah, you could also count that. I noticed it listening to it as an audio book

[@Moonlit-Demon]

And thats why he passed the test

[@ena.5364]

@Camisha Cajes buckbeak did get executed.

[@rakshanm834]

The no1 must be this line in the first book philosopher's stone/Sorcerer's Stone in which Professor Minerva McGonagall told to Dumbledore "there will be books written about Harry----------every child in our world will know his name!". HOPE YOU WILL READ IT.

[@farhanara17]

That's just Rowling's foreshadowing her own books 😂

[@aubreys8147]

This has always been one of my favorite lines in the book 😂😂 Way to connect it to the real world, JK Rowling! :)

[@Akatsukileader9]

Another one about Sirius. When Harry mysteriously gets his Firebolt from an unknown person, it gets confiscated for testing in case it has some dark charms on it , with several people thinking Sirius Black may have sent it to Harry in order to hurt him. When they finally see it has no strange charms, they return it to Harry, and people finally think it wasn't from Sirius after all. Joke's on them because it was.

[@mrbrokenoreo6557]

That’s more irony than foreshadowing though

[@Must-E]

But it's funny to think about

[@rubenheins3987]

It foreshadows that sirius is a good guy earlier than proven right

[@ev_account]

@@rubenheins3987 yeah. Like the broomstick, everyone thought it was dangerous or harmful, just like how they thought of Sirius. But when they took a closer look and examined the broomstick more, they realized it was fine and sent it back to Harry, also like how Sirius was proven innocent to the Order and to harry. Plus, riding the Firebolt for the very first time was one of the best feelings ever, and Harry, finding out that Sirius was his godfather, was also one of the best feelings he had ever felt.

[@jbreezy101]

Also 13 at a table Sirius was the first to rise

[@davefrompittsburgh6624]

In Harry's first potion's class, Snape tells him "A bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons." It is a Bezoar that Harry uses to save Ron from the poison drink in the Half Blood Prince.

[@ananyahariharan9370]

But he only knew that because of the Half Blood Prince(Snape)'s Potions Book. He used it when Slughorn asked him to make an antidote and that's how he knew to use it because he had read it in the book like a month ago.

[@davefrompittsburgh6624]

@@ananyahariharan9370 The theme of this video is foreshadowing, not how Harry knew to use the bezoar.

[@lavendersapphire4287]

@@davefrompittsburgh6624 It was foreshadowing tho.

[@lavendersapphire4287]

@@ananyahariharan9370 But in their first potions lesson it already foreshadowed what would happen later on

[@grass2250]

good one but that is not foreshadowing tbh cuz its like you are a medical student and u learned that paracetamol helps with pain and you give it to someone who is having pain

[@haybay42]

my favorite foreshadowing in Harry potter that he didnt mention is when harry smells the amortentia potion in hbp, he smells "a flowery he might have smelled at the burrow" then, later he smells it again and then he hears ginnys voice behind him. i love their relationship and that first hint is so cool.

[@user-yb3sq1lg6q]

you know what, this actually reminds me of when slughorn said “When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love...". This could be a hint of what happened to merope (voldemort's mom), with dumbledore's theory, she possibly gave tom riddle sr. the love potion that she finally got voldemort

[@ОльгаПетрова-у5з]

@@user-yb3sq1lg6q can we consider this quote as a foreshadowing of Snape's love story and it's impact to whole magic world? ;)

[@user-yb3sq1lg6q]

@@ОльгаПетрова-у5з that's interesting!

[@daniellemusella1594]

One of my FAVORITE bits of foreshadowing IN THE MOVIES happens in "Goblet of Fire", as Harry begins to duel the newly-resurrected Voldemort in the graveyard. As he tries to avoid being hit by the Killing Curse, Voldemort yells at him to not turn his back, and, "I want you to look at me, when I kill you! I want to see the light leave your eyes!" When Harry goes into the Forbidden Forest in "Deathly Hallows", he shuts his eyes just before the curse hits him. It's a great middle-finger moment. (1/26/2022)

[@mrdr0161]

Why have you put the date in your comment?

[@uthrarenjith7354]

🤝

[@dannyjorde2677]

That's not in the books, thou. Nor Voldemort's line nor Harry closing his eyes.

[@ERROR-zl2mc]

It's the most iconic Fuck You.

[@Art__E]

Glad to see the movies dont just add badass lines but also badass foreshadowing.

[@scaranvostok3637]

Funny thing is that Ginny was the first girl fully raised in a wizarding family that Harry meets at Platform 9 3/4. While Hermione was the first muggleborm girl Ron met in the train to Hogwarts. It’s a really subtle foreshadowing when we finally see the two couples see off their kids at the same station in the Epilogue.

[@joshuadesautels]

In the movies, Ginny was also the first of the Weasley children to directly speak to Harry. Another cool bit of foreshadowing. (In the books, it was the twins. Meh.)

[@graceb9628]

I really like the foreshadowing that Tonks loves Lupin when we see her patronus change early on in Half Blood Prince; that was confirmed when Harry asks Lupin what it means and Lupin says it's caused by great emotional upheaval.

[@justynap5411]

My favorite one was how Trelawney kept predicting Harry would die, the trio made fun of her and thought her crazy, just for Trelawney to be actually right. Double joke.

[@jacksonmcnuggets7488]

Fun fact: everyone will die one way or another

[@expred]

It's also great (and kind of sad) how every one of Trelawney's predictions came true, even though no one really respected her. Edit: I checked, so not actually all, but almost all. One of my favorites is "" Unfortunately, classes will be disrupted in February by a nasty bout of flu. I myself will lose my voice."" and then later she has that freaky breakdown when she loses her voice and tells Harry that Pettigrew will return and innocent blood shall be spilled.

[@thatmagichatguy8761]

The only exception I can think of is after Trelawney learns she can stay in the castle, she lets off of Harry's death predictions. This might just be her relief clouding her thoughts, though.

[@farblood69]

Harry found the lost diadem on the room of requirement when he was hiding his half-blood prince book on the 6th book... he even hold it and put it over the ugly mans head, haha I though you were gonna mention this one.

[@phtuber5469]

They also found the locket in Grimauld place in OOTP.

[@jbreezy101]

Hector I think flame was looking for more subtle foreshadowing.

[@jbreezy101]

@@phtuber5469 this was included in this vid

[@phtuber5469]

@@jbreezy101 Yeah I know now. I wrote that before finishing the video, my bad.

[@sunkure141]

sorry but I don't think that's forshadowing. I don't mean to be rood, but that's a part of the plot. he didn't know it was Ravenclaw's diadem until the deathly hallows. I don't think him doing that sent any kind of message or clue. but you candecide. I haven't read the halfblood prince book since the summer so I kinda forgot about it, but I do know one thing. that wasn't really meant to be forshadowing or any sort of message

[@MitchMitchellStories]

There was also foreshadowing in Half Blood Prince. When Harry sees Mundungus selling stuff he stole from Sirius' place, he sees him selling the mirror to Aberforth, which is confirmed in Deathly Hallows.

[@louisarildkarv2787]

You are a genius

[@daistor1236]

Another example is, in the fourth book, where we are at the Riddle house, Voldemort says to Wormtail, “I will allow you to perform an essential task for me, one that many of my followers would give their right hands to perform…” Which is foreshadowing him giving up his hand at the graveyard. Something I picked up on while reading the books again.

[@benjieortiz9547]

Maybe it's just me, but that whole scene from the goblet of fire. Where Dumbledore is talking about The Room. To karkouff. I had the impression that he was giving him a half truth. Knowing karkouff isn't exactly the type of guy you give out "secretes" of his own school to.

[@certainlynotthebestpianist5638]

Most definitely. Dumbledore is surely not a 100% transparent person as well

[@aartikulkarni6761]

Yes

[@andreaszimmermann6200]

I read once on Pottermore that the Mirror of Erised originally was hidden in the Room of Requirement. Therefor Dumbledor knew this...

[@berengustav7714]

"The Room" Oh,hai Mark.

[@benjieortiz9547]

@@berengustav7714 but did you hit her?!

[@alexrobi1176]

I love the Sirius one in the first book. When I reread Philosopher's Stone I freaked out how cool it was that Hagrid mentioned him

[@ananyahariharan9370]

Exactly

[@evelynvongizycki1017]

Sorry I only wrote the book once can you tell me where that was and what the reference was in philosopher stone about Sirius?

[@alexrobi1176]

@@evelynvongizycki1017 it's in the very first chapter when Hagrid arrived on the flying motorcycle

[@HPofNARNIA]

you forgot the Lovegoods. they were mention by Cedric"s father in 'Goblet of Fire' when they met while they were traveling to the Quidditch world cup. And we get to Meet Luna Lovegood in the next book. her father was first mentioned and we get to meet him in the last book.

[@JordanWylde_]

Trelawney also foreshadowed Dumbledore’s death concerning tragedy on the tower.

[@JustJoe10]

Almost every prophecy in the books comes true!

[@dailycarolina.]

and she also told Umbridge something bad was about to happen to her but Dolores didn't believe

[@ToPureToBePink]

Are you talking about when she’s shuffling through her deck of cards and muttering to herself or when she’s telling Harry about how she warned Dumbledore?

[@lunaticlunar9731]

@@ToPureToBePink yes

[@julesiinmelbourne2061]

That was my favourite one too!

[@forwhy8723]

The Hand of Glory was in the Chamber of secrets first when Draco spotted it and then he uses it in Half Blood Prince

[@saiadhvikac5993]

Yeah, I remember reading about it

[@Gabriel-ph6uj]

The opal necklace as well

[@gennag5637]

And Harry went inside the vanishing cabinet in Chamber of Secrets.

[@ellafisher5473]

One more this for Sirius’s death was when the Weasleys were arguing to see their father after he was attacked and Sirius said that there are things worth dying for

[@Ryder-a-Blaze]

Foreshadowing and character development are my favourite things to happen in stories

[@bryanmclane7992]

What about in the chamber of secrets when Harry wonders if the Malfoys own Dobby the house elf at the end of the book we learn that exactly the case,another one at the end of the prisoner of Azkaban Dumbledore tells Harry he might one day be greatful he spared Peter Pettigrew's life witch does come to the past in the Deathly Hallows

[@UnicornLover-sl4ns]

Well if it wasn’t for Wormtail then Voldemort wouldn’t have come back to rise right? Sorry if that is wrong I am still on the 4th book

[@freds_chess]

@@UnicornLover-sl4ns no thats basically right.

[@alyssakays367]

My favorite is the look of triumph in Dumbledore’s eyes. Another one in the books is the lost diadem. We first see it in the Half Blood Prince when Harry uses it to mark where he put the book in the room of requirement but are led to believe it’s just some random tiara. Then of course it shows up again in Deathly Hallows.

[@deannaacton4874]

Rowling actually lists where the horcruxes are. When they visit the orphanage Harry says he knew Riddle would never have put a horcrux there as it's so different from places like Hogwarts, gringotts or the ministry

[@shashankarya4008]

Voldemort put no horcrux in the ministry though it eventually got there

[@jenlfpotter3870]

Harry was a horkrux as well. He was in the ministry no less than 3 times before Voldemort's self distruction at the end of book 7. He was there for his hearing, book 5 chapter 12, he was there again 21 chapters later for what he thought, was a rescue mission, because he'd had the vision of Sirius being tortured at the end of row 97 in the prophecy library room. Sadly, this was a trap of 10 deatheaters against 6 teenage Hogwarts students.he e

[@annikalava17]

@@shashankarya4008 not personally but he did ask Bellatrix to put it in her family vault

[@jenlfpotter3870]

@@shashankarya4008 Not true. Harry Potter book 5, order of the Phoenix chapter 21... The Eye and the snake. Nagini attacked Mr Weasley at the ministry outside the door to the department of mysteries in the middle of the night 6 days before Christmas 1995. She would either, have been ordered there or placed there by Voldemort.

[@Aralie29]

There’s a part in GOF, I can’t remember if it was all of the trio but they were trying to figure out the second task and they walk past Durmstrang’s boat. They watched Crum come outside in nothing but swim gear and he jumped into the lake and they were like what is he doing. I believe that was Crum testing out his spell for the next task.

[@fathimazarin6849]

you mean Krum?

[@solarisp9733]

Damn never thought of that!

[@fathimazarin6849]

I kind of thought it was a given.

[@Aralie29]

@@fathimazarin6849 The first few times I listened to the audiobook I didn't catch that detail and for whatever reason I heard it at work one day and it clicked.🤯

[@ayshatehnan5468]

"What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel with an infusion of wormwood?" Answer: Draught of living death It proves the fact that Snape regretted Lily's death and he wanted her back. Please note that the answer was mentioned by Severus Snape in the first Harry Potter book; he answered the very question when he found Harry to be unable to answer the question.

[@JediNerd818]

Also Rowling said that wasn't meant to be foreshadowing and was a coincidence

[@justaguy6028]

There was another moment of foreshadowing Aberforth.When he entered the hog's head, he thought aberfoth looked familiar.

[@J00sti]

I doubt Dumbledore didn't know about the Room of Requirement. Not just because he knows all of a sudden in the upcoming movie but I just think he was just talking nonsense to Karkarov.

[@bienemaja4007]

And it seems as its kinda his thing, to make up stories. Like when he told Harry that he saw a pair of socks in the mirror. I like to think that he is making these funny stories up to amuse himself.

[@laikeree_4213]

@@bienemaja4007 That's- lowkey sad when you think about it

[@leto-nl]

Yes I was about to past this to as I agree with your 100% you beat me to it :)

[@expred]

@@bienemaja4007 I agree with Dumbledore not telling the whole truth all the time. But I think at least the socks thing was not to amuse himself, instead he didn't truly want to talk about what he would see in the mirror. I think the book puts in nicely, after Harry had asked about the mirror and Dumbledore told him about the socks, the following is said: "It was only when he was back in bed that it struck Harry that Dumbledore might not have been quite truthful. But then, he thought, as he shoved Scabbers off his pillow, it had been quite a personal question.” So I think it might have been too personal for Dumbledore to discuss.

[@AzureKyle]

Exactly, and he probably knew Harry was there, and that he might eventually need the room (which he does) so subtly nudges Harry in that direction by mentioning it.

[@itsvenuskwong]

Another great example is in book 1 when Harry visited Ollivander, who said James' wand had "a little more power and excellent for transfiguration". It was only until book 3 we learnt about the Marauders.

[@cameronsmith5355]

never though of that.

[@shaanshetal5055]

One more you missed. In the 6th book when harry was hiding his potions book in the room of requirements. He cam across a tiara. Which was none other than the ravnenclaw's diadem which was a hocrux. We get to know it in the final book.

[@KiryuZer0]

I loved the Forshadowing in Chamber of secrets when they talk about tom riddle and his Medal...or cub that Ron cleaned and ron said maybe he got it for killing Myrtle...which he did XD

[@docbrown2045]

After all these years? Always - a reference to what a Harry Potter fan will say about the books. I still remember how I felt when I first read about the Sirius death, and Dumbledore's death, and even Cedric's death and Voldemort's return. Adrenaline, anxiety and God knows what else.. That's what makes this story so great.

[@sk8rgrlteen]

I’m definitely blown away by what Severus Snape said to Harry upon their first meeting and what it translates to. That is some God beautiful writing JK Rowling 🤩🥲🥰

[@potter286]

What he said is also the method to make a draught of living death which is what they make in potions in HBP to earn the liquid luck and of course Harry is the one to make the perfect draught

[@hunternelson4320]

When Trelawney says that harry was born in mid winter she is actually foreshadowing the fact that harry has a piece of Voldemort’s soul in him. Voldemort was born mid winter. This is something that people like Movieflame have looked over. In some videos Movieflame says that Trelawney was just a fraud for this prediction. I hope he sees this comment so he can learn something new about the Franchise!

[@Art__E]

Thanks for sharing i never knew this one.

[@foodofthegods]

“Wands of cypress found their soulmates among the brave, the bold and the self-sacrificing, those who were unafraid to confront the shadows in their own and others’ natures.” There is one cypress wand in the series, and it belongs to Remus Lupin.

[@Rose-vx6fk]

at around 4:42 it mentions Aberforth and goats. And even in the Deathly Hallows it is revelaed that Aberforth's patrous is a goat when he helps Harry escape the Death Eaters in Hogsmeade!

[@angelemanuelgomez4326]

My favorite example was Trelawney's 13 people dining prediction, on how if 13 people sat at the table, the first to rise would be the first to die. And she was correct with the three times it happened

[@cameronsmith5355]

mines the Trelawney's u r in grave danger.

[@IgnBtw]

the first to rise were Harry and Ron and none of them died before Dumbledore

[@alyssakays367]

What’s kind of funny is that Trelawney is in fact correct in predicting Harry will die. Just not that year. We also get foreshadowing of Dumbledore’s death when Harry runs into her on his way to Dumbledore’s office.

[@IgnBtw]

@@alyssakays367 yes I know but its the FIRST to rise will be the FIRST to die but he did not die first anyway Snape also died before him

[@alyssakays367]

@@IgnBtw actually I looked back in the book and there probably already were 13 there because “Scabbers” was most likely with Ron since he carried him around in his pocket and didn’t want Crookshanks near him. So if there’s already 13 at the table when Trelawney enters the room… Chapter 11: “Sibyll, this is a pleasant surprise!” Said Dumbledore, standing up. …and Dumbledore dies first out of that group.

[@Laratasincola]

There is also a foreshadowing of the Ravenclaw Diadem. It was on a wig that was resting on bust when Harry hid the Potions book

[@haileypottinger6045]

Yes this is one of my favourite moments

[@lauramiller4939]

Maybe not foreshadowing, but an interesting teaching moment when she showed us in HBP that Tonks' patronus changed. By the end of the book we learn it was because of her sincere love for Lupin. Helps us understand the importance of Snape's patronus when we read about it in DH.

[@caitlinars01]

I never see anyone talking about it, but how about the brain that attacked Ron in ootp? Madam Pomfrey says that thoughts could leave deeper scars and stuff, and it isn't really mentioned afterwards. But I firmly believe this is exactly why in deathly hallows the horcrux seems to affect Ron by far the most. I know it's not a confirmed thing or anything like that, but for me personally it just makes so much sense 😂

[@rebbeccahoneycutt7941]

This is BRILLIANT! I love it!

[@crazybish2048]

The horcrux actually affected each of the trio the most. The trio was only able to hunt and destroy horcruxes when Ron was with them. The locket was able to manipulate Ron into leaving which broke the trio. Remember when Harry and Hermione wouldn't talk and would just move from place to place and how Ron's return lightened the mood.

[@Sigrexio]

I don’t think so. It's just another clever quote associated with sentences like 'thoughts can hurt deeper than a sword'

[@Art__E]

This feels like it was intended. Though I dont know if it was.

[@vkohli17]

I don't think this was intended but damn, this is brilliant. More headcanon, yay!

[@Scaroth1979]

I know you’re not counting the movie ones but in the half prince on the Hogwarts express Draco says he would pitch himself of the astronomy tower and later in the film dumbledore fell of the astronomy tower

[@davidwilliams5362]

Hey man - Another great video, thank you. I liked the subtle foreshadowing of Rita Skeeter being an animagus. The various references to bugs when various people were talking throughout the book was very well done.

[@haanis5458]

Dont forget that in book number five Mad eye showed Harry the picture of the old order of the Phoenix. There he mentioned Dumbledore's brother.

[@ChinoWantan]

that's not forshadowing, just telling that a character exists

[@haanis5458]

@Wantan Touché.

[@IgnBtw]

A very obvious one was in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire In the first chapter with Wormtail and Voldemort. Voldemort said that Wormtail's job will be as useful as Bertha Jorkins, one that many would give their right hands to perform. and he did give his right hand in the end.

[@leob9347]

I always thought that Dumbledore was just telling one of his funny story when he talks about the room of requirements just because he says that he walks by the room (so basically once and not three times) - so how could he have found it that way?

[@benwren2917]

The first one I always assumed dumbledoor knew about the room of requirement, and was mentioning it for Harry’s sake. He wouldn’t really have a motivation to, but it would explain him knowing what is in gof.

[@anujnandi4373]

In Philosopher's Stone, Harry had a "horrible feeling that Snape could read minds". Pretty sure that's foreshadowing...

[@trevy38]

This video actually informed me on how to write a foreshadowing moment

[@bienemaja4007]

Good for you. Keep up the great work.

[@trevy38]

@@bienemaja4007 I am not really working on anything I just thought it was a learning experience.

[@bienemaja4007]

@@trevy38 oh, well that's sweet anyways :)

[@priyanshasharma3599]

I loved the foreshadowing of Riddle murdering his father in the fourth book when Frank Bryce said he saw a dark haired pale teenage boy near the Riddle house. Also the foreshadowing of the Gaunts in the second book when Riddle tells dippet about his family.

[@juanaezrasingh9327]

I like your opinion dude...that takes a real big brain to fit so much of sense...appreciate your hard work buddy!!

[@adenfatima1643]

Halfblood prince :Dumbledore's conversations with Voldemort when he came for dada 's job but Dumbledore reveals about deatheaters waiting at Hog's head and the justification he gave for the knowledge was familiarity with the barman.

[@sophievandermeij866]

I like that Harry smelt Ginny's perfume in the love potion in Half Blood Prince. Then not nowing what it was exactly but later getting it was her perfume when Ginny walked by

[@UziMan-Science-Math]

7:31 When I realized that, I immediately thought about the third book where Harry basically said "I am not going to do anything Malfoy thinks is good", he contradicted that so badly haha

[@gabbro1833]

I’ve always assumed that when dumbledore talked about the room of requirement he wasn’t telling the full truth and did know what it was

[@ethonricketts7140]

Another instance of foreshadowing for Aberforth, was when Dumbledore told Tom that he was friendly with the local barmen after listing off the names of the deatheaters that had come with riddle.

[@lisayhand6779]

my favourite foreshadowing is in the 3rd book when he has a dream about following a slivery thing, later in book 7 (4 books later) he follows the same silvery thing (now identified as a pratronus) to the sword of griffindor.

[@ToniStevenson-w8n]

Both cabinets were foreshadowed in Book 2. Harry hid in the one in Borgin & Burkes when in Nocturne Alley. Then Peeves dropped the second cabinet for Nearly Headless Nick as a way to get Harry out of trouble. And this is when the Hogwarts one was broken.

[@lilsweethart85218]

I completely forgot about the centaurs' prophecy! Just another example of how everything came full circle. Returning to Gringots and Godric's Hollow, meeting a dragon, and rediscovering the invisibility cloak with it's mysterious past and secrets. The beginning was in the end. That's what I love best about The Deathly Hallows.

[@benwx4755]

On dumbledore and the room of requirement, I thinks its possible he was saying it as a 'hint' to Harry

[@Monsta13]

You have been helping me with the backstory of harry potter characters. Thank you man. Love from UK 🇬🇧

[@ice-choco-Icecream]

My favorite foreshadowing moments come from GOF it's really really well written, I love how I could look back at ''The random beetle Harry saw in Hagrid's and Madame Maxime's conversation'' and that ''Winky was walking as if fighting a strong wind''

[@Haw-y8i]

In the second movie(idk if it’s in the books) Lockhart states before the dada lesson that ‘you may just face your worst fears in this room’ foreshadowing the boggart lesson in their third year

[@misskat2817]

I personally feel that Dumbledore did know about the Room of Requirement, (even before the trailer came out) because after that comment at the Yule ball, in Goblet of Fire, he gave Harry a wink, and when has Dumbledore been entirely truthful, anyway? I doubt he actually knew Harry would use it next year, but I think he knew that he would need it eventually.

[@maccasack1288]

he did need it, he used it to find the ravenclaw diadem in the last book. Dumbledore must have known voldemort was using horcruxes even before the HBP

[@AbracadaBE]

For me foreshadowing is very similar to what happen in real life and you think about even of your past. Sometimes you understand things better afterwards. It’s like a « ahah moment ».

[@priyanshrathod8842]

In Prisoner of Azkaban when Wormtail ran away in the end, Dumbledore told Harry that one day Wormtail will be helpful to Harry for that mercy. And Harry told that he didn't think that can happen. Fast forward in Deathly Hallows Wormtail did help Harry and his friends locked up in Malfoy Mansion. Although it cost him his life.

[@Donald43]

Last one: wasn't the cabinet broken in the first place by Peeves (in Chamber of Secrets) because Harry was in trouble with Filch?

[@andi6879]

My favourite foreshadowing is when Ron asked Lavender in Book 4 "Can you show me Uranus".

[@meganpatterson2218]

Can we take a minute to appreciate how much goes into a single video by Morgan? I know that he has people helping him but still,he puts so much commitment into these videos it's insane. Thank you Morgan for giving us amazing video's filled to the brim with straight facts about the series we love.

[@josiemitchell547]

In the beginning of the third book, there's a sort of werewolf foreshadowing, before we ever even meet Lupin. "Harry spent the long sunny days exploring the shops and eating under the brightly colored umbrellas outside cafes, where his fellow diners were showing one another their purchases ("It's a lunascope, old boy -- no more messing around with moon charts, see?") "

[@dreadsocialistroberts]

#7 that's great. The other meaning is that Lily may have been that just as adept at potions and Snape. Snape is now testing Harry.

[@sherrywang8244]

I really like the foreshadowing of Voldemort’s own fate and the locket. When Dumbledore reminds Harry of what cruel thingsVoldemort did to regain a full body, Harry says: “He took my blood.” I was like oh yeah! This is shame on Voldemort but awesome on Dumbledore! And the locket, I some how it would me something because everyone tries to open it when it first shows up.

[@martabaski8967]

i used to have this huge book, before the order of phoenix came out. Don't know what the original title was, but translated to my native, it was something like "The Secrets of Hogwarts". It went through the first four books, almost paragraph by paragraph, pointing out foreshadowing and references to literature and mythology - it was an amazing book! my favourite part was showing the etymology of all names, e.g. Gilderoy Lockhart's name being a play in 'gilded', i.e. covered with a thin layer of gold but the inside could be much less valuable.

[@solarisp9733]

The presents Harry got from the Dursleys for Christmas at Hogwarts: Fifty pence piece, toothpick and a single tissue - The resurrection stone, the wand, the invisibility cloak

[@roseviolet4147]

This just blew my mind! Woooow

[@lamoinette23]

Holy shit

[@jenlfpotter3870]

I don't think wands have a hook at the business end though. They might have a funny shaped handle at the other end, but not the end where the spells come.

[@solarisp9733]

@@jenlfpotter3870 Just a straight wooden toothpick?

[@expred]

These are amazing details, most of which I never noticed. Then reading the comments I found out there are dozens more. The HP series is amazingly written, I think I need to reread them soon.

[@nedbeasley1482]

I think that, for the aberfoth one, you could also include at the end of HBP where it says that the owner of the hogs head attended dumbledores funeral in the front row or whatever

[@luvneojen]

One reason I always go back to te books is because of this foreshadowing. It’s just subtle details that you see turn into fully fledged plot points as the story evolves. And being able to notice that in a read through is so fun. It’s one thing the books will always outdo the movies in, although the books hadn’t all came out when they began movie production so I don’t really fault them for that.

[@tsguy-h3q]

You missed one very important thing, Professor Trelawney Foreshadowing Dumbledore's death. In the Christmas Holidays in the third book, only thirteen people, 7 teachers and six students were in the great hall. When Professor Trelawney came in, she said, 'When 13 dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die.' And if you remember, Dumbledore got up first to greet The Divination Teacher. And he was the first out of the 13 people to pass away. This is very subtle, but very excellent.

[@leodemidov8230]

I’m a huge fan of film study, so seeing your videos make me quite happy. Especially with foreshadowing

[@eagleplays16]

the Lovegoods were mentioned in the goblet of fire by Mr Diggory

[@amarillows]

i love foreshadowing so much which is one of the reasons why i love rereading & rewatching harry potter. and also why i am such a big fan of mcu. perfect writing tickles me lol

[@Mangaka_Mk]

Some Peter Petigrue related ones in POA The Weasley’s had a Sneakoscope that whistled when someone untrustworthy was nearby, and When it whistled they thought it was Fred and George because they were pulling pranks. However we later find out that it was Peter Petigrue when he was still Scabbers. Also when Scabbers/Peter Petigrue is taken to a vet in the begging of POA the vet tells Ron that an ordinary garden rat shouldn’t be able to live this long. And of coarse we later find out that he was an animagus.

[@ratdude747]

The word you're looking for is "sneakoscope"

[@Mangaka_Mk]

@@ratdude747 oh ok thanks

[@Bryan198026]

Pettigrew's death at his own silver hand was foreshadowed by Voldemort in GOF. "May your loyalty never waver again, Wormtail." Three years later his oyalty does indeed waver in the cellar at Malfoy Manor and we all know how that turned out.

[@ayaangupta3837]

Not all Gryffindor's are courageous : Peter Pettigrew Not all Ravenclaws's are smart : Gilderoy Lockhart Not all Hufflepuff's are weak : Cedric Diggory Not all Slytherin's are evil : Horace Slughorn

[@angelaslayz]

Leta Lestrange and Adromeda Tonks

[@primopackstore]

In the fourth book , rowling said : "Fleur delacour , Harry noticed, was eying Bill with great interest over her mothers shoulder . Harry could tell she had no objection whatsoever to long hair or earrings with fangs on them . To foreshadow Bill and Fleur's marriage

[@professorgummy]

Actually we heard about the cabinet earlier when Harry was gonna be punished by Filch but Nick convinces Peeves to crash it above the office. Then later the twins shove the Montage into it and he doesn’t appear at the other side cause it was never fixed. This was why Malfoy also had to fix it.

[@VideoxAngel9]

Also, I think the pair showed up earlier in the second book when Harry had to hide from Malfoy in Borgin and Burkes?

[@professorgummy]

@@VideoxAngel9 ya I think that as well your right but that was also the other one

[@williamj.5033]

11:38 Hello! There was also something I noticed while reading Chamber of Secrets that foreshadowed Ginny having the diary. Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 5 "The Whomping Willow" Mr. Weasley started up the engine and they trundled out of the yard, Harry turning back for a last look at the house. He barely had time to wonder when he'd see it again when they were back. George had forgotten his box of Filibuster fireworks. Five minutes after that, they skidded to a halt in the yard so that Fred could run in for his broomstick. They had almost reached the highway when "Ginny shrieked that she'd left her diary". By the time she had clambered back into the car, they were running very late, and tempers were running high. Could this have been Riddle's Diary that she'd left behind? ^

[@hermionegrangerboi3084]

Rowling has a mastery writing skills hats off ✨🙏

[@aprvsehgal]

Another major instance of foreshadowing in the books is the Ravenclaw’s diadem. In the half blood prince when Snape confronts Harry regarding the spell he used on Malfoy during their duel in the bathroom and commands Harry to bring him the book in which he found the spell, Harry then rushes to the room of requirement to hide the book and marks the hiding spot with a bust wearing a tiara. In the deathly hallows we find out that this tiara was actually the lost diadem of Ravenclaw.

[@rishankhan2776]

Oh man even 20 years after the first movie and even more years after the books I cant stop thinking about this book

[@whitecapsicum]

another instance of Firenze foreshadowing was in the Order of The Phoenix was when he took the first ever Divination class, he said that "Mars, bringer of battle, shines brightly above us, suggesting that the battle (a war in wizardkind; the Battle of Hogwarts) must break out again"