It seems like the Harry Potter series can still surprise us after all these years. While fans keep making theories of hidden messages and riddles in the famous books, one particular piece of foreshadowing has caught the Internet's attention.

Indeed, JK Rowling might have warned us about Dumbledore’s death in the third book of the series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban, as a fan took to Reddit to share his discovery.

In the story, 12 people are reunited around a table for Christmas, and as the divination professor Sybill Trelawney comes in the room, Dumbledore stands up to help draw her a chair. She then refuses, saying: “I dare not, Headmaster! If I join the table, we shall be 13! Nothing could be more unlucky! Never forget that when 13 dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die!”

But the fan in question continued by explaining that at the table was Ron Weasley, along with his rat Scabbers, later on identified as being murderer Peter Pettigrew. The Dark Lord’s follower changed into his animal form – a rat – after killing 12 people and became the Weasley’s family pet.

Therefore there would already have been 13 people at the table, and Dumbledore, being the first person to stand up, would become the first person to die. This scene would thus have predicted his murder carried out by Severus Snape in the sixth book.

Whether JK Rowling deliberately added the hint to the Headmaster’s death is yet unknown, but we can’t deny that the book series is still full of mysteries.

The book series follows the adventures of young wizard Harry Potter and his fight against a dark wizard named Lord Voldemort, selling over 450 million copies.