Straight from the horse's mouth... (possible spoilers)

[Vicki Merriman]

No: HPFGUIDX 1442

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Blaise " <blaise_writer at h...> 
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>  - Mrs Figg is a squib.  Godric's Hollow (where is that again?) is 
> gonna be very important as is Snape and the whole thing with 
Harry's 
> eyes!  She says Snape could still turn out to be either bad or good 
> but she's not telling us which.

Mrs. Figg is a squib!  Well whats the point of her baby sitting Harry 
if she didn't have any magic to protect him from Voldemort or his 
revengeful death eaters?  I thought the whole point was that he was 
under magic protection when the Dursleys weren't with him.  What a 
surprise.  Maybe her house has special protections built into it by 
other magicians, and maybe she could use an "anyone can invoke it" 
spell or something to call for help.  That's the only explanation I 
can think of.

Godric's Hollow definitely has to be where GG came from 1000 years 
ago, and it seems inevitable (unless JKR pulls the rug out from under 
us) that Harry is a descendant of Godric Griffindor.  Perhaps a 
descendant's magic would be heightened when physically in the Hollow, 
even though it didn't help James or Lily.

so the eyes ARE important.  That's really interesting also.  How 
about this.  James was a descendant of Griffindor and Lily was a 
descendant of Slytherin, thus making Harry the joint descendant of 
both, the one to end the feud. That must be a fairly common theory on 
the list.  Over the years I am sure that there are lots of muggle 
descendants of magicians.  Wouldn't Petunia croak.

Re Snape - He may flip flop a time or two in the course of the next 
books, but it seems almost too obvious for him to truly be evil.  Its 
like a gimme.

> Isn't that interesting?  A really big death in 5 - Lupin?  (please 
> no!) Ron?  Dumbledore?  Sirius?  I wonder whether whoever it is 
will > hang around as a ghost (tying this in with our discussion of 
the > week).  

I don't think JKR would have the dead person remain as a ghost, 
because ghosts are so real and present in her universe that it would 
almost be as though the person didn't die at all.  If she is aiming 
for the impact that she seems to be, the person will die and that 
will be that.

It probably won't be Ron because, again, that's too obvious.  If 
there is a big death in five we're stuck with Dumbledore, one of the 
twins, or Mr. or Mrs. Weasley.  I don't think she'll go for Sirius or 
Lupin in five.  I'm inclined to think it will be a Weasley, either 
one of the twins or one of the parents.  That would be really hard. 
Do you remember that clock that JKR made pains in GoF to tell us 
about, the one which has a hand for each weasley and a space around 
the face for "mortal peril?"  It seems to me that she wouldn't have 
invented the clock and specifically told us about the "mortal peril" 
bit unless one of the Weasleys was going to be there shortly.

Vicki