HBP contest -- Tiger's entry

[tigerpatronus]

No: HPFGUIDX 132361

Imagine that, I'm entering my own contest. I'm too type-A to resist.
Minion recruitment begins next week.



Compulsory Questions:

1. Who will be the most major character to die?
Luna.

2. Who is the Half-Blood Prince? (If "The Old Lion Guy," describe
more.)
A new character, who is a member of the British royal family
and whose parents are a wizard and a muggle, enrolls at Hogwarts
(like Prince William went to Eton).

3. What is Lily's big secret? (This question will be eliminated and
full credit given to everyone if no big secret is revealed.)
She was an Unspeakable in the Dept. of Mysteries,
researching Time, Love, and immortality. She would not give Voldy
these secrets (thus "defying" him.)

4. Who will be the new DADA teacher?
A new character who is useless like Lockhart but neither a
servant of Voldy like Quirrelmort nor evil him/herself like
Umbridge, probably female, who drones on and on and is boring. One
lecture will be about something like Melting.

5. With whom will Harry have a romantic relationship?
Hermione. (Please JKR! Hermione! We are all Hermione-geeks
inside, and we want the hero to love us because we love him!)

6. Who will be the new Minister of Magic?
Ludo Bagman

7. What is that bowl-thing on the green U.S. HBP cover?
An ancient Pensieve.

8. Will Harry take Advanced Potions?
Yes.

9. Will Neville take Advanced Potions?
No.

10. How many OWLs did Harry get?
9.

Five Predictions:

1. There is a wedding, probably Bill and Fleur. Umbridge or Percy
try to arrest the bride and groom. The bride and groom escape using
two invisibility cloaks.

2. Harry does not get into NEWT-level DADA (remember Umbridge's
evil grin at the end of Harry's OWLs?), and he is mortified, but he
and three others (Ron, Hermione, and Neville) take special DADA
lessons from Dumbledore.

3. Fawkes is instrumental in the preparation of a vital and secret
potion.

4. With Hermione's help, the House Elves are liberated from the
congenital Imperius Curse that they have long been enslaved under.
The Hogwarts' Elves stay loyal to Dumbledore and emerge from the
walls when they are desperately needed.

5. Near the end of the book, Harry and the DA launch a direct
offensive against Voldy and the DE. When it goes horribly,
disastrously wrong, Harry fakes his own death and hides in 
Dumbledore's office and the Room of Requirement.



Extra predictions, worth no credit, only bragging rights:

Professor Sinistra (Astronomy) is related to Sirius Black. She
inherits 12 Grimmauld Place.

Someone who has been kissed by a Dementor gets his soul back.

Three new spells or other magic: SANITAS. NIX. HASTA. (Health. Snow.
Lance.)

Harry goes back to the MoM, specifically to the Planets room, and
the Sun in the center of the planets is very bright and reflects
like a hall of mirrors.