Harry's summer in the 6th book

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bowlwoman" <bowlwoman at y...> wrote:
> I think there's going to be an attack at Privet Drive this summer. 
> And Vernon will die.
> 

I don't. We've still got the summer after 6th year to cover and
pulling Apocolypse Now right after 5th year just isn't going to
happen. Rowling isn't going to give us the punch line on the Dursley
story one minute before Book 7. And it's a toss-up whether she will do
it at the beginning of that book or the end. (Don't forget that the
whole series *started* from Vernon Dursley's PoV. It may very well end
there.) 

JKR has also already stated in her World Book Day that Harry's stay
with the Dursleys the summer of Book 6 is going to be his shortest yet. 

What I think is that the situation with the linkage between Harry and
Voldemort is just too vulnerable to leave unadressed for any more time
than can be helped.

I think that Harry is going to be pulled out of the Dursley household,
on Dumbledore's orders, within a couple of weeks and slapped into some
secure location (we do not yet know what the current ownership of 12
Grimmauld Place is. This could be another location altogether) and
given a crash course in Occlumency and/or Legilimency under Dumbledore
or -- as an outside possibility -- Remus Lupin. Who may not have been
a Legilimens when he was still in school, or associated with the
original OotP, but I suspect had become at least a reasonably
competent one by the time we met him in PoA.

In fact, since I also suspect that the remaining mystery surrounding
the werewolf caper is something that she intends to clear up and clear
away before diving into the home stretch of the series (she has also
stated that book 6 is when we find out what happens to Pettgrew) this
would be a very reasonable time to get that particular ball rolling as
well. In any case, I suspect that Harry is also going to be learning
*something* unexpected that he is going to need time to process.

I think that it is also *possible* that we won't see Ron and Hermione
until it's time to catch the Hogwarts Express. But that is a good deal
more up in the air than the rest of these speculations and I'm not
going to be upset to find I'm wrong.

And, just for fun, I'll stick my neck out and predict that Ginny, Luna
and Neville will each at some point in the year do something that
takes whoever they are with by surprise. And Ginny may get another
chance to pin Harry's ears back and make him squirm.