[HPforGrownups] HBP contest:

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 130256

Oh go on then...

>Compulsory Predictions:
>1. Who will be the most major character to die?

My personal money would go on Percy and Arabella. But in the light of recent
speculation, I don't think we'll be saying hello to Dumbledore at the
beginning of book 7

>2. Who is the Half-Blood Prince? (If "The Old Lion Guy,"
>describe more.)

No one real. A symbol, who knows, possibly alchemical. Hans may know that,
being the resident expert

>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 doesn't have one

>4. Who will be the new DADA teacher?

Maclaggan. Felix Felicis is a spell designed to get Harry to get a grip and
stop whingeing.

>5. With whom will Harry have a romantic relationship?

I'd like to say Luna, because Harry needs to get a line to his intuitive
side. But I think it'll be no one.

>6. Who will be the new Minister of Magic?

Wouldn't it be nice if it was Lucius Malfoy? But I suspect someone innocuous
like Madam Bones

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

Like everyone else, I'm going for a pensieve

>8. Will Harry take Advanced Potions?

Only if Snape continues to teach it. There's far too much fun in the tension
between the two.

>9. Will Neville take Advanced Potions?

Probably not. Only if Snape stops teaching it..

>10. How many OWLs did Harry get?

Passed Astronomy because the examiner took account of the special
circumstances in the practical. Failed History for the opposite reason.
Failed Divination because he's no bloody good at it. Passed all the others.

Optional Predictions (which sound a bit like Harry and Ron's divination
homework)

1. The Hogwarts elves, goaded beyond endurance by Hermione's antics, go on
strike and will only return to work when Hermione is forced to write with
Umbridge's black quill, the words "only a stupid naive Muggle would think
that slavery was the relation between elves and wizards" until she believes
it.

2. Harry finds and reads Snape's memoirs. "All my life I have walked in
shadow. I have known grief, and pain, and rage, and endless bitterness."
Finding out the truth, he realises that he's spent the previous books being
an arrogant, precious, whiny little boy who's had it really good compared to
his teacher.

3. As Dumbledore dies, he tells Harry "I'm sorry, I never gave you any real
choices but put you in the position where you had to act as you did all the
way through. It was to make you into the weapon that had the only chance of
defeating Voldemort. There is just one spell that could help you, part of
the ancient magic that saved you as a baby. That spell is ... arrrrgh..."

"That's a funny name for a spell" said Harry, "oh..."

4. A mysterious new elf named Kneasy joins the Hogwarts establishment

5. Trelawney proves to be ESE

hwyl

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