RAB's identity and significance / SHIP: H/G / is Dumbledore dead? / Neville's significance

[lagattalucianese]

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> 
> Amanda:
> Ok here's my theory. I do think it's Regulus Black. I think he's 
> going to be sent back as part of the prophecy to either throw 
> Harry off his game with Voldemort or he's going to come back to 
> help Harry defeat the dark lord. I also think Harry was a huge 
> fool to give up Ginny. Hopefully he realizes it in the new book. 
> I'm thinking that in the new book, all the people that died are 
> going to be able to somehow help Harry defeat Voldemort...DD and 
> Sirius included. I don't think they'll actually be alive so much 
> as a force. I think the prophecy is really about Neville. But 
> like I said, these are just my opinions...lol.
>
La Gatta Lucianese:

(1) I never got the impression that Harry "broke up" with Ginny in 
the sense that he told her he didn't love her. He broke off a *close* 
relationship with her *for her own safely* and made that very clear 
to her ("...He'll try and get to me through you.... How do you think 
I'd feel if this were your funeral...and it was my fault?...") 
Ginny's final take is, "I never really gave up on you. Not really.... 
Maybe that's why I like you so much." Which certainly doesn't sound 
like the relationship is on the rocks; just on hold until Harry gets 
the dangerous stuff out of the way.

(2) Probably in much the same way Cedric and Harry's parents came 
back to help him in GoF. Which raises a third interesting question...

(3) The manifestations that come out of Voldemort's wand in GoF: Are 
they true ghosts, or just memories stored in the wand of people 
Voldemort has previously killed with it? On the one hand, they behave 
like data-storage items (interesting that Voldemort has a LIFO wand--
with the exception of Lily, and JKR puts that down to sleep 
deprivation--;D), and they can only remain "embodied", if that is 
indeed what they are, while the wands are connected; but on the other 
hand, they express a good deal of independence and hostility to 
Voldemort, and do, in fact, manage to remain in existence for a brief 
time after the connection is broken, while Harry makes his escape. I 
think Harry talks about this with somebody (Dumbledore?), but I don't 
recall what the conclusion, if any, was.