Jkr's website and other thoughts

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 149544

cherylcsalem wrote:>
> <snip> I agree I think Harry Ron Hermione and Neville definitely
have something to do with the six Gryffindor's. I can't really see
Ginny  Lupin or pro. McGonagal being involved. As for the slytherins,
I can see Draco Snape and Slughorn.  I also agree with the post about
 Ravenclaws's heir being Luna. <snip>

Carol responds:
Mere speculation, of course, but I think the Gryffindors will be Harry
(of course), with the same four who have helped him in the last two
books, Ron, Hermione, Neville, and Ginny. If the final battle takes
place at Hogwarts, which I don't think it will, the Gryffindor adult
will be McGonagall. If it takes place at the MoM, which is more
likely, it will be Lupin (who, BTW, I expect will die). It could,
however, be Peter Pettigrew, paying his life debt, but I think that
will happen earlier. For the Slytherins, I don't see anyone but
Slughorn and maybe Theo Nott (CrabbnGoyle? Not likely!)if it takes
place at Hogwarts, but definitely Snape and Draco, and possibly Theo
(who's in the book for a reason) if it's at the MoM. Poor little Luna,
I fear, will have contributed her intuitive brilliance toward the
finding of the Ravenclaw Horcrux and then been killed (she's not among
the birthday people on JKR's website, as she ought to be as one of the
two loyal DA members who's not in Harry's immediate circle or a
Weasley). I don't think Luna is Ravenclaw's heir, exactly, but I
suspect a connection between her and Ollivander, given the silvery
eyes. (How common a trait is that?)

cherylcsalem wrote: 
> Now as far as Tonk's being in the castle up on the 7th. floor, I
thought that was funny also. However, Didn't DD say he had people
patrol the hallways when he left the school? Maybe that's what she was
doing? Just a thought. <snip>

Carol responds:
I think Tonks was watching Harry in one of the Order's invisibility
cloaks and didn't want Harry to know. She pops up suddenly twice, or
actually three times if you count the train incident, here and in
Hogsmeade when Harry catches Dungbeetle with the stolen goods. I think
 she did want to talk to Dumbledore about the recent murder of a
five-year-old boy by Fenrir Greyback (possibly she thought Lupin's
assignment was too dangerous?) but she must have known he wasn't there
and that she was nowhere near his office, which had been in the same
tower when she was in school a few years before. So a lie with a grain
of truth (where have we seen that tactic before?)--and she's not at
her sharpest because her mind is elsewhere. But, yes, I do think she's
patrolling the hallways and doesn't want Harry to know. I guess Remus
hasn't told her about the Marauder's Map.

Carol