Book 5 (major Spoilers)

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No: HPFGUIDX C6705
From: estesrandy
Subject: Book 5 (major Spoilers)
Date: 8/12/00 11:42 am  (ET)

This is in answer to someone else's request to predict the story of
book 5.
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Voldemort rounds up the troups and starts his assault on the Wizard
World. Lucius uses his influence to infect the Ministry of Magic with bad
ideas. Fudge follows all of these bad ideas until Arthur Weasley starts to
fight back with the reluctant help of his son Percy and the willing help
of Charlie and Bill. Bagman turns out to be a really bad guy afterall.

Harry gets into hot water because rumors fly that he was responsible
for the death of Cedric. Hermione and Ron start to pair up gradually
which isolates Harry for part of the book. Cho resents Harry at first
because she starts to believe the rumors about his killing Cedric (or
at least that he is somehow responsible). Harry feels torn between his
own feelings of guilt for the death of Cedric because he asked him to
touch the cup with him! Harry longs to be close to Cho but has to deal
with all of this guilt and suspicion. At the end of the book his name
is cleared againg and Cho begins to like him again.

The Malfoys become exposed partially by Arthur Weasley which puts him
in danger of Voldemort's wrath. The House of Slytherin alumni try to use
Snape's influence and position to undermine the power of Dumbledore. This
causes major internal struggles for Snape who must maintain his cover
and still remain loyal to Prof Dumbledore.

Hagrid trys to learn more Wizard charms by taking after school classes
from Prof. McGonagal. She becomes smitten with him and a slight
romance develops (really stretching here...just thought it would be
interesting). McGonagal is attacked by Death Eaters but Hagrid saves
her with his newly learned magical powers. One of his beasts finishes
off one of the bad guys.

Harry learns that his parents were undercover agents for the Ministry
of Magic. Moody tells him a few tales about his fathers life after
Hogwarts. The real Moody that is. Moody takes Harry under his wing to
prepare him for future battles with Voldemort.

Wormtail starts to question his obedience to Voldemort after the
embarrassment caused by the escape of Harry from the graveyard. A few
of the more intelligient Death Eaters also start to wonder about this
powerful but not too bright leader of theirs!

Hogwarts is under attack by the Death Eaters. Slytherin students are
caught in the middle by their allegiance to their families who are
involved in the Dark Side. The Professors must somehow manage the
stressful situation.

Ron Weasley and Neville develop stronger roles in this book. Neville
gains more confidence in his magic. Ron starts to become bolder to win
the affections of Hermione. Ginny becomes the great women behind the
man for Neville and helps him feel his inner strengths. Neville starts
to become one of Harry's team. The beginnings of the followers of Harry
who must eventually do battle with Voldemort and his band of baddies.

The first tests come at the schoolyard against Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle
who are still smarting from the incident on the train. The first incident
occurs at Hogsmeade during Halloween.

Dumbledore is under constant attack from the MOM via Fudge and
Lucius. Snape learns a few lessons in humility from his dealings with
the bad guys. He starts to realize that he could be great if he went
over to the Dark Side. Snape becomes torn between looking good for the
bad guys and doing the work of Dumbledore since Dumbledore starts to
fall out of favor. Dumbledore starts to show off his real powers and
Snape returns to his allegiance to him.

Have I started enough ideas for you guys to tear this apart yet? Give
me some feedback , OK?