[HPforGrownups] Re: ghosts, magicians and babies - Minor Point

[Vivamus]

No: HPFGUIDX 119072

> > > Vivamus:
> > >
> > >...edited...
> > > 
> > > (In fact, I'll go even farther and say that I think that 
> Neville is 
> > > by far the best candidate I've seen in the books for the 
> HBP, even 
> > > though he is a pure blood wizard.  ...
> 
> Looking at the names of the previous 5 volumes, none of the 
> titles referred to any character or item that was introduced 
> in a previous book (with the exception of a very cursory 
> reference to Sirius Black in the SS). I see no reason to 
> think that JKR will forego a winning formula, ergo the HBP 
> will be a new character or a very minor one from previous 
> books and, I am willing to bet, an adult.
> 
> Salit

I guess we are too early, yet, for a general survey.  Once the book has been
declared as finished and sent to the publishers, though, it would be nice to
survey this list for 

1. Who do you think is the HBP (and why)?
2. What ten things do you think will happen in HBP?

You make a good point about the previous title characters.  

Personally, I like the idea of it being an already-present character rather
than an introduced one.  There are so many characters already that JKR has
all the resources she needs to do anything she wants with the plot, and my
guess is that she is trying to simply rather than expand at this point,
since the seven-book story arc is going to wrap up in the next two books.

Vivamus