My predictions for book 6 & 7 (deaths, OWLs, relationSHIPs, etc)

[marephraim]

No: HPFGUIDX 73039

Nice analysis, but if I am counter with some other possibilities...

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "acoteucla" <acoteucla at h...> 
wrote:
> SHIPs:
> Harry & Luna
> Ginny & Neville
> Ron & Hermione

Hem, hem..... ;-)

No, no, no...]
SHIPs
Harry & Ginny
Hermione & Neville
Ron & Luna

> 
> Harry's OWLs:
> DADA: O
> Care of magical creatures: O
> Potions: E or O
> Charms: E
> Herbology: E
> Transfiguration: E
> Astronomy: A
> Divination: P
> History of Magic: D

Ok, I'll buy that analysis, except I'd be less sure about 
Divination, and Harry's performance on Astronomy was, shall we say 
influenced by distration...?

> 
> Deaths:
> Fudge will either die, or resign in disgrace.  Arthur Weasley will 
> become the new minister of magic.

Unfortunately, Fudge could hang around throughout. I'm the first to 
wish AW to become MoM, but can easily see plot development requiring 
him to remain in a more middle-management position. Also, I can 
imagine Fudge weathering the bad press of this current year, and if 
he /does/ finally come on board to listen to Dd and had his support 
I can see him surviving a no confidence vote.

> 
> Voldemort will kill Dumbledore.

Or, a DE will kill Dd while he is distracted in fighting You Know 
Who.

> 
> One of the three eldest Weasley brothers will die (Percy, Charlie, 
or Bill).

Sad, but possible.

> 
> Snape will die in the process of saving Harry's life.

And then Harry will discover that the pensieve in Snape's office is 
not Dd but his own and when reviewing it will discover that SS loved 
and cared for him all along, that he felt sorry for his situation, 
that he hated having to put him down and humiliate him, that.... er, 
um... sorry, been reading to many FanFics. No, let's just say 
Snape /could/ die as speculated and leave it at that.

> 
> Future careers:
> Harry will become an auror.
> Ron will become a professional Quidditch Keeper.
> Hermione will either become a healer, or work for the Ministry.
> Neville will become the permanent DADA teacher.

Neville might show that much promise, but his performance in DA has 
been less than spectacular (although surprising for him). Also, we 
clearly see that Neville loves Herbology. (And I'll wager that his 
knowledge here will prove vital in the coming books!)

Hermione has the best chance to become a teacher. Pic a subject. Any 
subject (well, except for Divination).

Ron will either work in the Ministry of Magic or become the 
bookkeeper for Gred and Forge's Joke Shop Empire. He'll marry Luna 
and produce a brood of orange haired Weasleys to continue the 
Hogwarts tradition.

Harry will settle down to a life of the landed gentry, write his 
memoirs (My Years With Hagrid's Family -- They Might Be Giants), and 
settle down to a quiet and happy life with Ginny and their three 
children: Ronald James, Sirius and Hermione (the twins).

> 
> Other predictions:
> Dumbledore is a wasp animagus.

Wouldn't that more likey be Umbridge? Where was she at the time? 
I'll have to go back and check that one.

> 
> James Potter was the DADA teacher at Hogwarts before he died.

If this were so I'm sure we'd have read about it at least in passing 
by now. 

> 
> "Either must die at the hand of the other" refers to three people, 
> not two.  "Either (Harry or Voldemort) must die at the hand of the 
> other (Peter Pettigrew)".

Nice possibility! But I think this will cast us back into 
speculations about Neville. He will be the inadvertant cause of an 
accidental poisoning (one of his plants, etc.) of Harry for which 
his quick thinking will save him. Then, at the end of Book Seven, 
paralleling the death of AD, while You Know Who has Harry under 
cruciatus, Neville, who will have been unconscious up to then, will 
rise up and kill the Dark Lord.

Well, that's my spin on things....

M.E.