Will there be an ESE!character in Book 7?

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 147385

> >>Quick_Silver:
> I thought though that HBP was really like "the first part of a two 
> part book" or something like that. Wouldn't that make Snape 
> the "betrayal" that everyone is looking for? 
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
Well, no it wouldn't.  I don't think any of the other books revealed 
the betrayer or villain in the middle of the story.  The *red 
herring* was handed to us on a silver platter, but the actual bad 
guy still seemed sweet and innocent (or pathetic, or dead) by the 
middle act.

Just to list it all out:
PS/SS: red herring, Snape; villain, Quirrell
CoS: red herring, Draco; villain, Ginny/Tom Riddle
PoA: red herring, Sirius; villain, Peter Pettigrew
GoF: red herring, Karkaroff; villain, Moody/Barty Crouch, Jr.
OotP: red herring, Snape; villain, Kreacher

If we take HBP as one book in and of itself I guess we'd have to say 
that the red herring was Draco and the villain was Snape (though 
that sounds neater than it actually fell out).  Mainly because Harry 
expected Draco to kill Dumbledore and instead (dun-dun-DAH) Snape 
did it.

But if we take HBP as part one of a two parter I think it's safer to 
put both Snape and Draco as the red herring since they've been so 
neatly handed to us as the villains.  Or maybe Snape as the red 
herring and Draco as the secondary mystery.  Either way, the real 
villain has yet to be revealed.  (DUN-DUN-*DAAHH*!)

Betsy Hp