info. on book 6 - Kathryn.

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Kathryn wrote:
> "Harry has a romance" and "a great year for Harry". huh, well 
> going on past performance I don't imagine both these things can 
> be true! Besides JKR is setting things up for book 7, which 
> presumably is the great showdown, so I sincerely doubt that 
> overall Harry will be able to look back at the end of book 6 and 
> say it's been a great year. He may well have some great 
> moments but I have to say that the only thing that will stop HBP 
> being as bad a year for him as OoP is the fact that he's out of 
> family to lose! (well family he care about anyway)
> > 
> > K
> 
> You're entirely right, I agree. All that will happen in book 6 is 
> that we'll get closer to the showdown that is book 7. Mind you, I 
> suspect whoever Harry has a romance with in 6 will die horribly 
> in 7. While I'm in the mood for some Trelawney-esque 
> predicting, Dumbledore will spend all of book 6 in a lovely 
> retirement bungalow near the coast, emerging to save Harry's 
> bacon and then die, and that way Hogwarts (therefore the entire 
> wizarding world, apparently) will be up for grabs in 7.
> Although the hype has begun for 6, I'm expecting a bit of a 
> filler, at best.
> 
> Sandra (not on the edge of her seat, and very definitely nagging 
> the www.step-through.com website for a sequel to The Odessa 
> Stone)


I'm a bit confused (read: suspicious) to be honest. 

J.K. Rowling interview transcript, The Connection (WBUR Radio), 12 
October, 1999:
"Now the important thing about Harry's mother, the really, really 
significant thing, you're going to find out in 2 parts. You'll find 
out a lot more about her in Book 5, or you'll find out something 
very significant about her in Book 5, then you'll find out something 
incredibly important about her in Book 7."

And I'm sure she's said somewhere that the good bits about Snape are 
in book 7, too (though I can't find a quote). So I'm rather hesitant 
to believe that Harry has a romance, or that it will be his best 
year yet. It's going to be another horrible year, as far as I can 
see. 

I'm expecting more revelations about Voldemort in book 6, the 
circumstances of his birth, perhaps.  More about the Hogwarts 
founders, more about Pettigrew and Malfoy... not *filler* as such - 
I'm fairly certain it's going to end with something huge unresolved, 
and leave us howling for book 7. I almost don't want to read HBP 
now - maybe I'll wait until 7 is out so I won't have to go through 
the agony all over again...

Ha. No chance.

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