Missing characters and Portrait!DD (was: Why I am 98.6% certain that...)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 146471

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
>
 Harry will have to talk to the portrait to find it out.
> (Unless the protrait tells McGonagall and she tells the other Order
> members.) But I got the distinct impression that Harry (and Ron and
> Hermione) won't be at Hogwarts in Book 7 even if it still exists.
> They'll be out searching for Horcruxes. No quidditch, no prefect
> duties, no Head Girl for Hermione (I never had any Head Boy hopes 
for Harry)--and very little contact with any Order members who are 
still teaching. (We may well see more of Lupin if Harry's *not* in 
school.)
> 
> I really hope you're right, both for Snape's sake and for my 
opinion of JKR's sophistication as a writer, but Harry did say he 
won't be back and RH said they'd go with him. 

Tonks:

Will the school even be open? With DD gone who is going to send 
their kids there? JKR said that what we saw in HBP was the last 
Quidditch match.  I think that this implies that the school will be 
closed. If that is the case, how will DD's portrait talk to anyone? 
And if the school is closed, maybe Harry will have to go back there 
because one of the Horcruxes is there somewhere. Then he could have 
a chat with DD.

Tonks_op