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This first book in the Harry Potter series is filled with foreshadowing. For example, in the opening chapter, Harry's ability to communicate with the snakes on the trip to the zoo...
The first American Edition’s cover art (on the backside) features the party of Order members who go to rescue Harry’s group - Moody, Lupin, Tonks, and Sirius and provides two examples of this trope at once.
Foreshadowing is when something early on is symbolic of something that will come later, or there's a phrase that becomes relevant for what a character later experiences (for example, when Ollivander tells Harry he's destined for greatness, and later in the book he stops Voldemort).
2 kwi 2015 · In Order of the Phoenix, Fred and George are up to shenanigans and trap Slytherin Graham Montague in a broken vanishing cabinet in Hogwarts, which makes Montague disappear in a weird space where he can hear things happening in both Hogwarts and Borgin and Burkes. Nothing much to look at here—all just magic stuff, Hogwarts is a crazy place ...
1 sty 2019 · Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, by JK Rowling. Let’s see why this hook is so effective.
Climax. Harry has a vision of Sirius Black, his godfather, being tortured by the Death Eaters (Voldemort’s followers) at the Ministry of Magic and rushes off to save him, therefore confronting the Death Eaters head-on. Foreshadowing.
My favorite example of foreshadowing is in The Order of the Phoenix, where Petunia says, "I heard – that awful boy – telling her about them – years ago." She wasn't talking about James Potter, as Harry suggested in the next bit of dialogue, but Severus Snape.
