[HPforGrownups] Re: Predictions for book 6 and 7.

[Vivamus]

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> Hickengruendler adds:
> 
> 25. Neville is not toast and will be the classmate who 
> becomes a teacher, either in Herbology or in DA.

Vivamus:
GREAT idea, and it would fit him.  Unless he IS the HBP (and I think he is
the best candidate for it of the ones we've seen,) his story is too painful
not to find resolution.  I would add to this, though

34.  Neville will use his expertise in herbology to cure his parents.

> 26. Ginny, however, will die during the climax of book 7. At 
> this time, she's Harry's girlfriend.

Vivamus:
Ahhh, no, no, no!    I'll go for this one, instead:

35. Harry is completely unable to throw off his tie to LV through his scar.
It is too deeply a part of him for Occlumency to combat.  Ginny, however, as
the only other one into whom LV has poured part of himself, is able to reach
and connect and complete Harry in such a way that he is able to be free from
the scar's influence.

ONE of the ways JKR could do this is to have Ginny pay with her life for the
severing of that tie between Harry and LV.

> 27. Sybill Trelawney will make a third prophecy. They always 
> come in threes. But it won't be in book 6, but in book 7.

Vivamus:
Shades of Rama, but I'll bet you are right.  THe bigger question, of course,
is what the prophecy would be about.

> 28. Dumbledore will die at the end of book 6 and McGonagall 
> will become the new headmistress.

Vivamus:
I'm afraid this makes too much sense, as much as I like DD.

> 29. Moaning Myrtle will find out that it was Voldemort who 
> killed her and seek revenge. Therefore the ghosts from 
> Voldemorts past literally came back to haunt him.  

Vivamus:
Aha!  What if MM was forced to come back to Hogwarts for precisely that
reason?  She was forced to leave her "friend" alone, but why send her back
to Hogwarts?  Why not just keep her away from her old classmate?   Sure, the
bathroom was where she died, but what if this is the "clue" in CoS that was
pointing towards HBP?  What if having a ghost around who was killed by LV
creates certain vulnerabilities for LV?  Oooooh, there are so many ways JKR
could play with that, but what a delicious idea!

> 31. Percy will be too ashamed to go back to his family, but 
> he will begin to work against Voldemort. Percy will not die 
> but instead will have to live with the mistakes he had made.

Vivamus:
Have to disagree with this one.  I think Percy will in fact die for his
errors, though I hope he honors his family by first owning up to what a
snotty little sycophant he has been, and then by standing up heroically to
accomplish something significant, dying in the process.

> 32. Snape however will die, in the final battle (which I 
> agree will take place at Hogwarts), saving Harry.

Vivamus:
Hmmm, have to give that one a maybe, as JKR could sure make it work, and
work well.  I guess I like leaving Snape alive after finally saving Harry's
life in HBP, because then they both would have to deal with their feelings
in book 7.  With DD gone, and Snape no longer owing Harry's family a
life-debt, but Harry in fact owing him one, what happens to their
relationship?   Don't the possibilities shout?

Great ideas.

Vivamus