How Will the summer of HPatHBP begin ? Call for theories .....

[tinglinger]

No: HPFGUIDX 129189

I challenge anyone who follows the posts here to
summarize a better grab your page!turner opening.....
this challenge is limited to the start of the summer
after OOP ends and before Harry returns to Hogwarts,
if he does...

Flashbacks don't count, even if jkr uses one for
Chapter One 
sharpen your quills 
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1. Luna was clearly NOT on the Hogwarts Express with the
other students. She had still not found her stuff
and was granted a few extra days to stay at Hogwarts until
she found them. (There are precedents for this permission.)
Everyone else who Harry met on the trip to Hogwarts at the
start of year five was on the return train - except Luna.
Ginny was reading the quibbler and turning it upside down -
just like Luna would have, so her absence is not accidental.

2. Mr. Lovegood is scheduled to pick up Luna from Hogwarts
after he finishes publishing the last edition of the quibbler
before he and Luna go on vacation to Sweden.

3. Goyle was NOT in the group of death eaters who invaded the
Ministry of Magic. Everyone who was there was mentioned by
Lucius Malfoy as they organized their hunt for the members
of the Sirius Rescue Mission.

4. Goyle's son is ridiculed in several places as being
funtionally illiterate. In particular, Luna howls at Ron's
imitation of Goyle writing lines, something her father is
good at, though his writing makes sense. An interesting
subconscious link between Goyle and Lovegood...

5. Voldemort finds out about the potter interview published
in the Daily Prophet and finds out that it was originally
published in the Quibbler. He wants revenge on all involved.
What better irony than to have his most illiterate and brutish
DE go to the Quibbler,trash the place, burn it down, and
kill Mr. Lovegood. 

6. Mr. Lovegood, in his last dying effort, uses several of
the dictating quills to write letters of warning to the
wizarding community and a farewell letter to Luna

7. The quills deliver their parchments to the owls waiting in
the makeshift owlery to deliver the papers and they zoom off
into the night.

8. The evil deed done, Goyle rolls up his sleeve......

9. Luna is still at Hogwarts looking for her things when
an owl arrives to give her the message from her dad

10 She leaves Hogwarts and sets out for the offices of the
Quibbler via thestral power, having already proven that she
is an expert rider

11 As she and her thestral approach Quibbler headquarters,
she sees the Dark Mark in the sky over the building and
remembers the one her dad and her saw at the World Cup.
Luna knows her dad is most likely dead and she cannot
help him.

12 Where can she go? No other relatives, no real friends 
(Ginny is not a real friend - she laughs at her), and
then she remembers..........

13 the one who offered to help her not once but twice before,
and thestrals are good at finding people and places

14 Harry awakes on privet drive to the sound of garbage cans
being tipped over and looks out his window ........

now it gets interesting!!!




tinglinger
who loves to look behind the wizards veil for new plots
and character studies and post them at potterplots

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