Order of the Phoenix (mostly), was Re: Figg/Cats - Priori Incantatem.....

[Joy M]

No: HPFGUIDX 24954

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Rita Winston <catlady at w...> wrote:
> Becky wrote
> 
> > Mrs Figg is also absurdly fond of her cats. 
> 
> Mrs. Figg is quite reasonably and appropriately fond of her cats 
IMHO. 

Spoken like a true catlady! You tell em!  [As The Catmunist 
Felinifesto says: Cat lovers of the world, unite!  All you have to 
lose are your small, breakable items, your unstained rugs, and your 
houseplants!]

Didnt JKR say in interviews that she is (1) not particulary fond of 
cats, but that (2) cats will be increasingly more important in later 
books?  Or am I just starting rumors here?

> Becky wrote
> > Are there any heavily supported rumours about the next 
> > book, other than Lupin being in it and it being called 
> > Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?
> 
> Rumors: We will find out why Mrs. Figg has all those cats. We will 
find
> out whether Percy is going to turn evil. Harry will go to a magical
> place which the readers have heard of but never seen before. 
[Guesses as
> to what that place is include St. Mungo's, Azkaban, the chamberpot 
room
> at Hogwarts, Egypt where Bill Weasley works as a cursebreaker.] 
Rumor:
> We will learn the magic properties of a room at Hogwarts whose 
existence
> but not whose magic we already know about. [Guesses as to which room
> include: the chamberpot room, the prefects' bathroom (and that its 
magic
> is that boys and girls can bathe at the same time without seeing 
each
> other), 

Or, even more magically, that they are allowed to bathe at the same 
WITH seeing each other, but I guess if that were true then everyone 
would want to be a prefect, even Fred and George.

> and the small room next to the Great Hall with the portraits of
> deceased Headmasters.] Rumor: A beloved character will die. I'm very
> much afraid it will be Remus, who is MUCH beloved by me and other 
women
> with good taste.

Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Not Remus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think this would be a good time to start collecting 
rumors/predictions about OoP, maybe in an FAQ.  We could even place 
odds on them.  It would be fun to see how right we are.  IIRC, some 
people were much better at others at predicting GoF (I was wrong 
about everything; I was sure Sirius was toast.)  Any volunteers?

--Joywitch