will Harry return to Hogwarts?

[n_longbottom01]

No: HPFGUIDX 139307

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Derek Thorburn"
<dc.thorburn at n...> wrote:

> I think, whilst we're discussing Harry's 
> future education, we need to consider whether 
> or not Harry's really going to return to school.  
> At the end of HBP he specifically announces to 
> Ron and Hermione that he won't return, even if
> it does open.  This could be a natural reaction
> to DD's death, or it could be a determination to 
> get on with the finding of the horcruxes and 
> finally vanquishing LV.
> 
> Derek

n_longbottom01:

Fred and George set the precedent in OOTP when they left Hogwarts
early, going on to become successful business men.  I think if I
didn't have this earlier example of students not completing their
seven years of schooling, I would be less likely to believe that Harry
wasn't going to be back at Hogwarts for his seventh year.

If Harry discovers during the summer that one or more horcruxes is
hidden somewhere at Hogwarts, then we may see Harry come back to
Hogwarts as a student for at least part of the school year.  Returning
as a student would be the easiest way for Harry to have access to the
places he may want to search at Hogwarts, without drawing to much
attention to what he is doing.

Harry's announcement that he isn't returning to Hogwarts, really
throws things wide open.  But the horcruxes are definitively going to
be Harry's number one concern in the next book.  If the horcruxes
aren't at Hogwarts, he won't spend much time there.  

A lot of the story's major ties to Hogwarts have been cut.  Snape and
Draco won't be back for next school year.  Dumbledore is gone.  Harry
is not planning to return as a student.  Ron and Hermoine plan to join
him.  I didn't want to believe it when I heard that Hogwarts might not
even reopen for Harry's last year, but when I look at it this way, I'm
afraid that it might not.

-n_longbottom01