My 7 book 7 predictions

[exodusts]

No: HPFGUIDX 148007

> Sydney:
> -- a mysterious phoenix patronus will run around, leading everyone 
to
> think Dumbledore is alive.  It will in fact be Snape's patronus,
> changed on account of his shock at the sacrifice of Dumbledore (love
> this theory-- not mine, I hasten to say).

Exodusts:
I've been rudely arguing about this recently (probably offended 
someone on livejournal), but I don't think it is going to happen. JKR 
was asked, between OotP and HBP:

Ernie - "I wonder if you can let us know what form will Professor 
Snape's Boggart and Patronus take? I am very curious."
JKR - "Well, I'm not going to tell you Ernie, but that's because it 
would give so much away."

She could have replied this way because she didn't want to reveal 
that it is going to change into a phoenix in book 7. But it fits 
better with the idea that the form of Snape's Patronus has always 
been significant, right from the beginning, not that it is going to 
change in book 7. This is because, if what is significant IS that it 
changes, she could simply have replied detailing his Patronus as it 
was then (between OotP and HBP).


> Sydney:
> -- Book 7 will be a magic Tardis book, fitting all this stuff in and
> yet being shorter than OoP, according to JKR.

Exodusts:
Lol, where is De Nile not a river? She'll soon figure out it's going 
to end up the biggest yet. It has to be, if she is to satisfactorily 
tie up all the loose ends she has left, and I don't think she'll want 
to leave any more blanks than she absolutely has to, or she'll never 
get away from HP for the rest of her days: "Excuse me, aren't you 
J.K. Rowling? I loved your books! Do you know, my favourite wizarding 
object was the Blah. Can you tell me what happened to it?"