50 Questions I would like answered in Books Five, Six, and Seven

Sat Apr 5 17:28:14 UTC 2003

No: HPFGUIDX 54828

There are so many things I want to know, I just wrote them all down.  If 
anyone wants to add to the list, have at it.
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1)  What was in the letter that Dumbledore left with Baby!Harry?

2)  Why do the Dursleys keep Harry around if he antagonizes them so much?

3)  What were Lily and Petunia and their parents like?  Did Petunia truly 
regard Lily as "a freak" or was she jealous of Lily's magical powers?

4)  How did Lily save Harry?  Was it simply her love or something like a 
charm?

5)  Why did Voldemort ask Lily to "stand aside"?  Why didn't he kill her 
outright?

6)  Who loved Lily besides James? Snape? Sirius? Peter?

7)  What truly happened on the night of the imfamous "Prank"?  How were MWPP 
and Snape punished?

8)  How did MWPP lose the Marauder's Map to Filch?  Or did someone else?

9)  What were James's parents like?  If they are (presumably) dead, then why?

10)  Where did the Potters' fortune come from?

11)  Why did Snape join the Death Eaters?  Why did he leave the Death Eaters?

12)  Was Snape the spy who warned Dumbledore the Potters were to be killed?

13)  Why does Snape hate Harry so much?  Or does he really?

14)  Has Snape gone back to Voldemort to spy?  If so, will Voldemort take him 
back?

15)  Has Hagrid gone to contact the giants?  Will Madame Maxime go with him 
if so?

16)  Will Hagrid's name be formally cleared?

17)  Who is Grindelwald?  How did Dumbledore defeat him?

18)  Is there more to the story of the Founders?

19)  What was the name of Tom Riddle's mother?  Were she and Tom Riddle, Sr, 
actually married?  Why did she, (presumably) a fully trained witch, die in 
childbirth?
(And why in the name of Merlin did she name him after the bastard who got her 
pregnant and blew town?!)

20)  What happened to Tom Riddle's maternal grandparents?  Did they disown 
his mother for taking up with a Muggle, or were they dead?

21) Where did Tom Riddle learn the Dark Arts?  Who were "the very worst of 
our kind?"

22) Did Tom Riddle and Minerva McGonagall go to Hogwarts near the same time? 
Were they acquainted?  Romantically?

23)  Were the Marauder's Map and Tom Riddle's diary constructed in a similar 
way?  Is it a form of Dark Magic?  Is there something sinister about the map?

24) Is there an "Ever So Evil" mole?  If so, who is it?

25)  Is any of the Trio going to die?

26)  Does Hermione love Ron or Harry?  Viktor Krum?  Or someone else?

27)  Why was Hermione sorted into Gryffindor and not the more obvious 
Ravenclaw?

28)  Is Percy's ambition out of control?  If so, why was he sorted into 
Gryffindor and not Slytherin?  Will he turn to the Dark Side?  Will he be 
manipulated at the Ministry?

29)  Will Crookshanks show other Kneazle abilities?

30)  Will Ginny develop as a character more?  Was she corrupted by Tom 
Riddle's possession of her?

31)  What is up with the imfamous "chamber pot room"?

32)  What is the room Harry will visit in book 5?

33)  Why was the Potters' house destroyed?

34)  Is Harry the Heir of Gryffindor?

35)  Are Dumbledore and the Weasleys related?  

36)  Did any Weasley relatives die in the first Voldemort War?  Will any die 
in the second?

37)  Will we learn more about Susan Bones?  (JKR said in an interview that 
her grandparents were killed by Voldemort.  She is also the only Hufflepuff 
to be sorted on camera in the movie.)

38)  What happened the night the Longbottoms were attacked?  Where was 
Neville?  Did he witness what happened?  Was he tortured?  Was he Memory 
Charmed?

39)  Why is Neville afraid of Snape?  

40)  Are all Slytherins destined to turn evil?  Is there one that hasn't?

41)  Will a DADA teacher last more than one year?

42)  Is Draco simply a spoiled brat?  Is there something more to him?  Will 
he turn to the Dark Side?  Will he be killed?

43)  What is Narcissa Malfoy's story?  Why did she marry Lucius?  Is she also 
a Death Eater?

44) Who is the mysterious "Fourth Man" in the Pensieve Scene?

45) What happened to Sirius Black's flying motorcycle?

46)  Is Sirius Black suffering from PTSD or another mental disorder from his 
time in Azkaban?

47)  Are Sirius Black and Severus Snape related?  Why do they hate each other 
so much?

48)  Who is Florence?

49) What is Flitwick's story?  Is he half-Goblin or -house elf?

50)  Why does June 21 seem so far away?
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The Queen of Serpents

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