Single prediction for OotP

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 59845

One single prediction, eh?

Okay, I'll bite. 

I predict that the major overall conflict for Book Five will be between 
Dunbledore and the Ministry rather than Harry and Voldemort. And that it will take 
the Dementors' change of alliegance to knock Fudge's policies out of place. If 
he is still running around with a Dementor guard at that point, this may well 
put paid to Fudge himself as well. 

By this time Dumbledore *may* have been forcably removed from his position as 
Headmaster, in which case he might be reinstated at the end -- or he may be 
rendered inaccessible to Harry by being drafted to take over as interim 
Minister of Magic. (This kind of coming-of-age storyline only requires that the 
mentor figure be unavailable, not that he be dead.)

In any case, it will only be after the Dementor disaster that this book's 
Harry/Voldemort subtext becomes prominent, and will be the big dramatic climax to 
the book. 

Oh, yes, and that the reader will not be allowed to continue to take Snape's 
support of the "good side" for granted.

-JOdel