So much for spoilers

[David]

No: HPFGUIDX 55999

Ooh, what fun!

Dicentra wrote:

> I found this on Book Magazine online
> (http://www.bookmagazine.com/archive/issue10/potter.shtml)

> Harry will not
> date either Hermione or Ginny though.
> Is this the demise of H/H and H/G?

I fear fans of these shipping positions will find this 
unconvincing.  Surely your true obsessive places these romances 
firmly post-canon to ensure disappointment is avoided?
 
> * The first truly evil female character makes her debut.
> 
> Would this be Rita Skeeter?  She's a pain in the anatomy, 
but "truly
> evil"?  I don't think so, unless we're going to find out more 
later.

Could it be the lady in the Pensieve - though we don't know for sure 
how evil Fleur Delacour's sister is.  Or Padma Patil.

> * There will be a number of deaths, including that of one character
> readers have grown to love. Rowling has said Voldemort will be 
shown
> not as a mere pantomime villain, but as a truly evil entity. 
> 
> Cedric Diggory was a decent enough fellow, but someone readers have
> grown to love?  Hardly.  And "a number of deaths"?  We had Cedric's
> and Crouch Sr's.  As far as Voldemort not being a mere pantomime
> villian in GoF, the jury is still out on that.

Bertha Jorkins and Frank Bryce.  There wasn't much left of the 
younger Crouch, either.  Tom Riddle is IMO far more sinister than 
Panto!Voldemort.

> * We learn why Voldemort is who he is . . .
> 
> Not really.  We learn what happened to Voldemort post-Harry and 
how he
> got back into his body.

I suppose we get confirmation of the centrality of his quest for 
immortality.
 
> * The book's ending will be very frightening indeed. 
> 
> Not as frightening as the Yule Ball. :D

or indeed the Pensieve scenes.
 
> So you see, whatever spoilers we've read so far about OoP might or
> might not be true, or at least not true in the way we might 
imagine.

That seems to cover all the possibilities

David