OoF Prediction Derby (LONG)

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., justanopinion2001 at h... wrote:

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> 1.  What new magical place will we visit?
     -Ministry of Magic offices. It'd be interesting to see the 
magical equivalent of a "war room" in there.

> 2.  Are any of the Dursleys wizards? 
     -I don't think so.  
      
> 3.  Identify the next DADA teacher.
     -The real Moody will still nominally have the job, but will 
often be busy elsewhere.

> 4.  Which "beloved" character(s) will die?  Any other deaths, and 
if so, who?  
      -Not Ron. That'd be too obvious, and if there's any 
generalization that can be made about JKR's writing style, it's that 
she never does the obvious.

> 5.  Of *Lupin, *Sirius, #Krum, Fleur, #Lockhart, Winky, #Dobby, 
#Moody, #Bagman, *Madam Maxime, which characters will have speaking 
>lines in OoF?  *= definitely will. #=probably will.

> 6.  At the end of OoF, will Dumbledore be the headmaster?
 - A definite maybe. I'll day he'll either still be head, or he'll be 
Minister

> 7.  At the end of OoF, will Fudge be the Minister of Magic?
 - No. Who JKR will replace him with is a good one. Dumble would make 
an obvious Churchill to Fudge's Chamberlin, but Crouch Sr. and Pop 
Weasley are possibilities; Lockhart would make an interesting touch.

> 8.  At the end of OoF, will Neville be the same forgetful boy, or 
> will he have changed in some way? 
 - He'll start coming into his own. He's due for some development.

> 9.  At the end of OoF, will Sirius have cleared his name?
 - I'll go out on a limb and say it'll become obvious to everyone but 
Fudge, and bring about Fudge's downfall.
 
> 10.  Will Harry and Voldemort have a confrontation? 
   -Probably not in OoF; I think we've seen the last H/V face-to-
"face" until book 7.

> 11.  Of the following magical things, which will a character use or 
> confront:  #pensieve, *veritaserum, boggart, #Marauder's Map, 
whomping 
> willow, #polyjuice potion, nifflers, *portkeys, #rememberall, #floo 
> powder, time turner, *sneakoscope, *foe glass, #secrecy sensor, 
knight bus. *=definitely,  #=probably.

> 12.  Will there be Quiddich at Hogwarts? 
  -Yes. It may be added into the MS for versimilitude "...go on with 
normal life in this time of tragedy..." 
   If so, who will be the Gryffindor Keeper?
  -Someone we've never heard of, prob. a second-year.  
  Gryffindor Captain?
  -Harry.

> 13.  Will anyone else turn out to be an animagus?  Who?
  -Hermione, but maybe not in OoF.
    
> 14.  Who is Mundungus Fletcher?
  -Former Minister of Magic?
 
> 15.  Will Wormtail use his silver hand in an important way?
  -Probably.

General prediction; I may be overstating things as an American, but I 
think reality may creep in in this book. Maybe nothing obvious, but 
enough that Lit-Crit people in the future will take note that books 1-
4 were written during normal times for the Western world in general, 
book 5 was not.