My 7 book 7 predictions LONGish

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> After JKR giving Remus love interest, I feel much more confident
> that he will live. Oh, and of course he was not and never will be
> ESE. :-0
>
>   Luckdragon: No arguments on Lupin's goodness; but don't you find
it strange that this relationship was just thrown into the mix
without prior
>   clues. How would this work? Good a metamorphagus and Auror as
Tonks may be even Moody wasn't able to remain entirely in one piece
and fell victim to Crouch Jr. It would just be too dangerous to marry
a Werewolf (Lupin knows it).

Alla:

Well, what can I say ? The relationship did jump on me pretty much
out of nowhere, but I think that this is where the argument that
Harry does not see everything can work well to explain "out of
nowhere part". I don't see any more than usual difficulties because
Tonks is an auror and Remus is werewolf. He is pretty much not
dangerous when he drinks a potion and she has a dangerous job, but
many people have dangerous jobs and many people have chronic
illnesses. Relationships are difficult in general, I don't see theirs
necessarily as more difficult than many others. IMO of course.

Personally, I would much more preferred Remus to be in relationship
with Sirius, but for some reason I remember well a phrase at one of
the discussions table at Witching Hour symposium. "JKR gave Remus a
love interest in order for him to have a reason to stay alive". I
happen to agree with it. I mean one would hope that Harry was at
least part of such reason too. We shall see.


>   Alla:
> If Harry dies, he will be reunited with his loved ones behind the
> Veil, if he does not, he will NOT be Frodo Potter. He will get a
> chance to live a reasonably normal happy life. Maybe "twelve kids"
> prediction will come true.
>
>   Luckdragon: Goodness, I hope not the 12 kids part.
>

Alla:

Heeee. Why not? You don't want Harry to stay kids or you just want
him to have that many? :-)


> Alla:
> Oh, of course the AK Snape performed was very real, not fake.
>
>Luckdragon: That I won't believe till the last page of book 7 ends.
>

Alla:

Snort. What if at some point in time JKR will write on her website in
Rumors section or FAQ section something to the effect.

"Dumbledore is dead and AK killed him". Would you believe it then?



> Quick_Silver's prediction:
<SNIP>
> 5. More details of the Prank will be known...while not clearing
> Sirius I believe they will shift part of the blame onto Snape and
> basically make him equally culpably with Sirius.

Alla:

Oh, yes, agree completely. JKR said that we will learn more about
Prank so that much is a given. It IS impossible IMO to clear Sirius
completely and unnecessary, but I will put my money on Snape being
equally culpable and not just in his relationship with Marauders in
general but in the events preceding Prank whatever they were. I think
it is been rather heavily foreshadowed in HBP by the fact that Snape
was inventing Curses, one of which was very dark and another one
could be used in a quite nasty way AND his own curse was used against
him AND that half of Hog warts was using levicorpus at one point in
time.  Pensieve scene will always be example of horrible bullying,
but I think that it also could foreshadow in a metaphorical way that
somebody was getting the dose of his own medicine. So I am betting
that whole picture will become more multicolored than it was in OOP
at the end. Moreover, I think it became more multicolored already at 
the end of HBP.

Quick Silver:
> 7. Draco flees Voldemort and is allowed to leave by Peter...Draco
> proceeds to tell Harry that Snape has been discovered. Harry
arrives
> in the nick of time to save Snape's a** and then it's the final
> showdown.

Alla:

HAHA. Harry saving Snape's a** will be the very best punishment for
Snape, but unfortunately I am predicting that JKR will not go as far
as to leave Snape in Potter's life debt again. I think that Harry
will save Snape in the middle of the book and close to the end Snape
will save Harry.


Quick
> Little Things I'd like to see:
<SNIP>
> -Snape getting beaten by someone, anyone...Voldemort, Harry (my
> preferred choice), the Marauders, Neville...this applies double if
> he's DDM! (Oddly enough I find DDM! to be a more arrogant person
> then ESE!)

Alla:
I don't even need him physically beaten, to me it would be
satisfactory enough to see him powerless and at Harry's mercy. To
make this scene plausible I can imagine that Harry at that point
already decided to forgive Snape, so Harry is not becoming LIKE Snape
but for some brief period of time Snape does not know that yet and
hates awaiting Harry's decision as to his fate ( not sure when and
how that would happen) and starts running his mouth at Harry again,
desperate and powerless. Oh, yes, I would love to see that.

And yes, that would be enough punishment to me only if Snape is DD!M.
If he is ESE! or OFH! I am sure he will get a nice long stay in
Azkaban. Hey, he would still have it better than Sirius - there would
be no Dementors and I would not wish Dementors even on Snape. It is
most likely of course that he will die no matter what kind of Snape
he is. :)

Quick Silver:
> -Harry out-brewing Snape in Potions (I consider that being the
> universe balancing itself)

Alla:

That would be lovely. But unfortunately I cannot see Harry wanting to
enter into potion competition with Snape under any circumstances,
ever. IMO of course .

Quick Silver:
> -more Slughorn...he interests me and he's the one teacher at
> Hogwart's that I feel can be of use to Harry

Alla:
Love Slughorn as very typical Slytherin. When I did chapter 4
discussion questions, I expressed some doubts that Slughorn can turn
out to be ESE, but this is the case where I really truly don't want
my doubts to turn out true. I hope Slughorn stays and continues to be
Slytherin head of  the house.

Couple more predictions from me, I think I read everybody else's, but
I may have missed something, so forgive me if I by accident repeat
somebody else's prediction:

Harry will return to Hogwarts, but will be leaving it often to go
hunting just as Dumbledore did.

One of the possible endings for dear Voldemort I can think of ( that
was not said in this thread, but I may have seen it earlier or
discussed it with somebody)  would be Voldemort turning into a baby
at the end and Harry taking a pity on him and not killing him for
that reason ( have no clue who would take care of this "baby" after
all though – maybe St.Mungo?). It is not my favorite one by all
means, but I keep thinking about "baby face" DE at the MoM battle and
Hermione's "we cannot hurt a baby" ( paraphrase, but I think
essentially correct one) and I can see this kind of end.

But I much prefer dear Tommy go away and never come back, ever.

JMO,

Alla