Predictions for book 6 and 7.

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 119140


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
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> 1. Voldemort WILL be destroyed somehow. :o)

Agreed

> 
> 2. Harry WILL survive at the end (I would place this one at 50-50, 
> but since I really want this one to happen, I will predict it 
> anyway).

I would give you 2-1 in favor of Harry's survival.

> 
> 3. Remus Lupin is NOT Voldemort's servant and has never been 
> Voldemort's servant.

No bet.  The odds against Remus being a DE are astronomical

> 
> 4. Peter will help Harry somehow (I don't see this one at all, but 
I 
> think this is going happen by story logic).

2-1 in favor of Peter helping Harry, although with the proviso that 
he may not actually intend to help Harry (think Gollum at the end of 
LOTR)

> 
> 5. Sirius WILL return in some shape or form (I really want him to 
> return as human, but I realise that most likely it will be spirit 
or 
> portrait or something like that).

2-1 in favor of Sirius returning/communicating with Harry.  5-3 
against this being a recurring or permanent manifestation.

> 
> 6. Harry will think that Snape betrayed the Order in HBP.

2-1 in favor of this or some similar belief by Harry about Snape.


> 7. We will learn in book 7 that Snape did not betray the Order.

Even money. I don't think Snape will consciously betray the Order.  
However, his dislike of Harry (and others) may lead him to do 
something that is an inadvertant betrayal.  Also, all these instances 
in all the other books of Harry suspecting Snape and being proved 
wrong are starting to smell suspiciously like a double-blind.  It may 
be time for Harry to be suspicious about Snape and be right for once.
 

> 8. Harry will forgive Snape.

Even money while Snape is alive.  2-1 in favor if Snape dies.
 
> 9. HBP is Remus or Godric Gryffindor.

I would like this, but I'll have to say the odds are 1-1.