What is the greatest HP prediction ever?

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Neri" <nkafkafi at ...> wrote:
>
> This post 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/161571
> by Alla in the main list makes me ask: what is the most inspired,
> brilliant and exact HP prediction you have ever encountered?
> 

This brilliant post by Eloise, dated Nov. 23 2002, predicts the 
following:

 I want to suggest that Dumbledore is sending Snape back to
Voldemort precisely to prepare the way for his own sacrifice. It 
seems that Dumbledore has been unable to tell Harry about his destiny 
up to now. I suggest that he is grooming him for a role that he will 
be able to take up only when Dumbledore is no longer there, that 
Dumbledore knows that he must pass his mantle as the greatest living 
wizard on to Harry. As Fawkes has to die before he can rise again, so 
Dumbledore has to die before Harry can assume his mantle and defeat 
Voldemort. Snape, then, has to regain Voldemort's trust and set in 
motion the train of events that will lead to the 'betrayal' of 
perhaps the one person who has ever shown him true friendship. No 
wonder Snape's pale and Dumbledore's apprehensive.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/47044


   - CMC (who predicted Wormtail's death in Book Six)