[HPforGrownups] Predictions for book 6 and 7.

[Amanda]

No: HPFGUIDX 119151

From: dumbledore11214

> I looked through files. I saw predictions for OOP. I did not see any
> for the upcoming books. I know we played this game, but I did not
> participated at that time, so I want to make my predictions for HBP
> and some for book 7 too. Anybody care to join, place any bets?

> First one I am VERY confident of -
>
>>> 1. Voldemort WILL be destroyed somehow. :o)
Kethryn agrees.
>>> 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).
Kethryn agrees cause she thinks it becomes too much like LoTR at that point.
>>> 3. Remus Lupin is NOT Voldemort's servant and has never been Voldemort's
servant.
Kethryn totally agrees
>>> 4. Peter will help Harry somehow (I don't see this one at all, but I
>>> think this is going happen by story logic).
Kethryn remains neutral
>>> 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).
Kethryn sure hopes he returns and is in human form but acknowledges that
this is a slim to none possibility.
>>> 6. Harry will think that Snape betrayed the Order in HBP.
Kethryn agrees.
>>> 7. We will learn in book 7 that Snape did not betray the Order.
Kethryn agrees
>>> 8. Harry will forgive Snape.
Kethryn agrees.
>>> 9. HBP is Remus or Godric Gryffindor.
Kethryn thinks that it could be Snape but can't remember if JKR said
definatly that it was not Snape (but acknowledges that JKR possibly did say
that...I just cant find it).

Kethryn's hand at predictions -

1.  McGonnagall is a gonner.  Probably at the end of book 6.  It sucks, I
know, but she is not only expendable but, tactically from Voldemort's PoV,
she is an excellent choice to knock off, striking a blow at both Harry and
Dumbledore.

2.  Neville is going to kill Bellatrix (at least, I hope that Neville gets
to kill that ... thing).

3.  Lockhart is going to show back up.

4.  If any of the trio die (NO!), I am betting that it will be Hermione.
Why Hermione?  Most emotional wallop for the buck, other than killing Harry
off (professional suicide or stroke of genius...that one is a crap shoot).
And JKR could finish the story with just two male characters easily enough.

5.  If Hermione doesn't die, I think that Ginny will die.  Remember the
boggart scene in OotP?  Ginny and Hermione were the only ones not shown.

6.  Take you pick as to which other Weasley's will die; they are all viable
candidates.

7.  Death will come to Hogwarts (as in killing students and students'
parents).

8.   All of Harry's yearmates will be seeing Thestrals before the end of
book 6.

9.  Hogsmead gets attacked (either book 6 or 7).  Trips to Hogsmead are
cancelled and the oned eyed witch passageway is discovered and sealed.

10.  Harry, Ginny and Ron get back on the Quidditch team

11.  Draco is forced to come to some hard choices and, under a lot of
strain, he forgets to be nasty to the trio.  Lucius and he are going to have
to have a show down if Draco is ever going to develope into something other
than a nasty little git.  I am betting, too, that we will be seeing more of
Narcissa (or at least get some of the story there) in 6.

12.  This isn't a prediction but a 'wonder' - I wonder if Voldemort will
actually put in an appearance in HBP.  Why?  Well, if JKR is going in
patterns with the stories, then Voldemort shouldn't be in book 6 (the only
other book he was not in was book 3 - well, he was but not really).  What do
you all think?

And that is more than enough for now.
Kethryn