Newcomer + Book 5 prediction

[dorothydch at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27774

I agree I think it will be Dumbledore.

Dumbledore is like his phoenix and at the end of book 4 he is 
beginning to molt. He suddenly begins to look old.

I think this will throw everyone in mass confusion since they are so 
use to him having all the answers. As he said in the end of the last 
book everyone will have to choice between what is right and what is 
easy. 

There is was a preview as to what happened after the "death" of 
Voldemort. His followers where in chaos after his "death", some 
stayed loyal and some betrayed him. I think we will see what happened 
to the Death-eaters happen to the "old gang". They will be hunted 
down like the old gang hunted down the death eaters. Also, the 
Dementors will change sides and work for Voldemort as they are only 
interested in the party who can satisfy there needs.

It makes for a more gripping story. Also, I believe the author is 
trying to illustrate age old story line. The uneding battle between 
good and evil. The first book started off with the celebration of the 
defeat of evil.

However, throughout the rest of the books we see that mistakes made 
by the "good" people actually helps evil to re-enter their lives, i.e 
non-compassionate (Sirius goes to prison with out a trail), prejudice 
(Arthur Weasley is not promoted because he likes Muggles), power 
(Fudge does not want to react to Dumbledore suggestion, probably 
because he does not want to be unpopular) etc.

Just a thought,
Dorothy


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Kewpie" <dkewpie at p...> wrote:
> Hi everyone, 
> I'm a new Harry Potter fan (so late ^^;;) and I'm happy to find a 
> group with all these interesting discussion. 
> 
> I don't know if someone talked about this before already (I'm sure 
> there is, I've been going thru. the archieve roughly for the past 
> week too),  about Book 5, after reading many J.K. Rowling 
interview, 
> I'm pretty much confident to say that the person who's a "Harry's 
> fan" will die is Dumbledore. I totally don't see the point of 
killing 
> off minor characters like Ginny or Colin and such, because similar 
> situation already happen in GoF, the impact of "the death of a 
minor 
> chara" has already been done. So in Book 5, a very major chara will 
> die and it'll be Dumbledore.  and I read an interview that J.K. 
> Rowling said book 5 will be "the end of an era", which strengthen 
the 
> idea of Dumbledore's death (the end of the "dumbledore as 
headmaster 
> era").  I think Dumbledore probably predicted his death already and 
> told the teachers. Probably he told Snape to do something after his 
> death (like become the next Headmaster?  no...McGonagall will be 
the 
> next Headmaster and Snape might replace McGonagall?) 
> anyways, I would like to know if anyone agress with me.