My *One* Most Rock-Solid OoP Prediction

[Marie Jadewalker]

No: HPFGUIDX 60048

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at c...> 
wrote:
> You know, I'll bet there have been *thousands* of predictions on 
this 
> list about what will happen in OoP.  I've probably made dozens 
> myself, some of them mutually exclusive.  ;-)  We've had polls 
about 
> all sorts of predictions, too.
> 
> Now that June 21 is just around the corner (Wow! -- We'll be 
reading 
> OoP next weekend!), maybe it's time to get *serious* here.  No more 
> having a whole bunch of vague predictions to your name.  Maybe it's 
> time for a gut-check -- time for anyone who's willing to stand on 
> just one OoP prediction to step forward.

Okay, I'll try sinceI don't think I've seen anyone with something 
similar to my wacky theory in *this* excercize.  I'm going to go with 
the infamous Florence.  I believe _she_ is going to be the new Dada 
teacher.  Further, I think it is going to become important to find 
out who it was that Bertha Jorkins caught her kissing behind the 
Greenhouse (in Dumbledore's penseive in GOF).  She could potentially 
be (or have been) involved in all sorts of love polygons (Snape and 
Sirius? All the Maurauders?  Filch, Malfoy Sr, and Mr. Lestrange?) 
but it could also just be a clue to her true allegiances.  At any 
rate, I think that scene in the Penseive is going to end up meaning a 
lot more than just background on poor Ms. Bertha.   

As a post script, not part of my ONE prediction, I believe the knife 
Harry got from Sirius last Christmas will end up being important.  

~Marie