Harry Potter Foreshadowing Activity

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TEACHERS AND PARENTS: Surprising things have happened to Harry Potter and his friends at Hogwarts. However, J. K Rowling's masterful plotting of the Harry Potter stories includes hints in each book about what is to come later in the series. These hints are a literary device known as "foreshadowing." This activity asks your students to become detectives and search for clues J. K. Rowling has given throughout the Harry Potter series.

FORESHADOWING LOG ACTIVITY:

• Print out the Foreshadowing Log.
  
  
• Pick a surprising event from one of the Harry Potter books, such as the revelation of Prof. Lupin's secret.
  
  
• Find as many places in the books as you can where the author gave you hints about the surprising event you have listed.
  
  
• Can you find passages in the books that you think are clues for events yet to come? What are those clues and the events you think they foreshadow.

FORESHADOWING PREDICITION ACTIVITY:

• Locate the description of the Weasley family clock in The Goblet of Fire. Imagine why this clock may be important in a future Harry Potter book, then write the scene you imagine as a short story.
  
  
• In chapter thirty-six of The Goblet Fire the author writes, "For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something like triumph in Dumbledore's eyes." Write a paragraph describing the possible future significance of this sentence.