Predictions for Order of the Phoenix

[sharlene_wong at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 24985

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Zarleycat at a... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., cynthiaanncoe at h... wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Joy M" <joym999 at a...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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
> > 
> > Joywitch -- I'll go on record that the beloved figure who will 
die 
> is 
> > Hagrid.  I will be shocked if it is someone else.  Hagrid has 
> > outlived his usefulness.  Well, almost, anyway.  He has two more 
> jobs 
> > to do.  First, he has to send an envoy to the giants.  Then he 
has 
> to 
> > die protecting Dumbledore ("I'd trust Hagrid with my life").
> > 
> > No way will it be Lupin.  There are too many cool plot twists 
that 
> > can involve Lupin.  It just isn't Lupin's time -- yet.
> 
> Marianne:
 
> I'm not going to predict who will die in the next book because I 
> think I can make a case for at least a dozen people.  My prediction 
> is that the new DADA professor, who reportedly will be female, is a 
> contemporary of Snape, Black and Lupin, and has(d) a romantic 
> involvement with one of them.
> 


Maybe they are going to re-create what happened before when they were 
in school.  Perhaps two (one of them is Snape the other would 
probably be Black since their rivalry tends to be so intense) of them 
fall in love with this new professor--assuming that the professor is 
female (even though one should assume nothing in JKR's world)--and re-
creating that old rivalry that used to exist.  One could only 
speculate as to what will happen in the next book and there are many 
possibilities.

pegasus0580 (can't wait until the next book is out, and still reading 
the existing ones over and over until it is!)