HBP prediction contest: comments wanted

[Karen Barker]

No: HPFGUIDX 128627

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Compulsory Questions (0-5 points each):

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

Dumbledore (he's the only one I can bear to part with!)

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

The new DADA Teacher – see below

3. What is Lily's big secret? (This question will be eliminated
and full credit given to everyone if no big secret is revealed.)

Nothing will be revealed till book 7 but she worked as an 
unmentionable in the room behind the locked door in the MoM

4. Who will be the new DADA teacher?

A new character with whom Harry will cross paths before school 
starts, without knowing who he is – why change now?!

5. With whom will Harry have a romantic relationship?

Ginny

6. Who will be the new Minister of Magic?

Madame Bones

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

Harry's pensieve – he is given one or buys one and DD teaches him 
how to extract his memories and use it to see them.

8. Will Harry take Advanced Potions?

Yes – he gets an O in his OWL

9. Will Neville take Advanced Potions?

No – but he did pass his OWL, possibly with an E

10. How many OWLs did Harry get?

All that he took (can't remember) except History of Magic


Predictions (0-10 points each):
Make 5 predictions not covered in the Compulsory Question
section. 

1.	There is something somewhere about someone coming late to 
magic – that is Petunia
2.	Once Neville gets his own wand, his magical abilities 
improve by huge amounts therefore his overall confidence increases 
and he is less forgetful and clumsy.  He is also the one who becomes 
a teacher eventually.
3.	Hermione continues to try and press on with SPEW and comes 
very unstuck as a direct consequence of this.
4.	Ron and Hermione openly admit that they fancy each other – 
this makes Harry feel slightly separated from them both (though he 
is NOT jealous romantically of Hermione) so he becomes closer 
friends with Neville and Luna (closer than he is now, not closer 
than he is to Hermione and Ron).
5.	Harry leaves privet drive early to visit Dumbledore and 
learn Occlumancy and the use of the pensieve and possibly 
Legillimancy too.

That's my 2 knuts worth!

Karen