My guess about book 7

[anne_t_squires]

No: HPFGUIDX 161106

 Cindy Kauffman  wrote:

> Here is my guess about book 7: Harry saves the day ( as usual).
Harry beats Voldemort finally.  

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  Sirius will be back as a ghost.  

Anne Squires responds:

On page 861 of OotP (US hardback edition)  JKR makes it clear that
Sirius will not come back as a ghost.  She has Nearly Headless Nick
explain the situation to Harry.  Nick offers absolutely no hope that
Sirius would ever choose the path of becoming a ghost.  He tells
Harry, "But very few wizards choose that path."  When Harry continues
to question him, Nick says, "He will not come back," repeated Nick. 
"He will have... gone on."  Harry continues to insist and Nick tells
him, "I was afraid of death.  I chose to remain behind...." So, we
learn that "very few wizards" choose that path.  We also learn that
Nick chose his path because he was "afraid."  Sirius is anything but
afraid. I don't believe that DD would ever choose this path either. 
After all, he claimed way back in the first book that death was the
next big adventure.

Cindy Kauffman also wrote:
  There will be Quidditch.  Harry will be team captain.  I see Harry
going off to be in a professional Quidditch team. 

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Anne Squires responds:
In the MuggleNet/The Leaky Cauldron interview with Emerson Spartz and
Melissa Anelli on 7-16-05 JKR stated that the match where Luna does
the commentary was the last Quidditch match she will ever write.

JKR:  "I know what I've enjoyed writing - you know Luna's commentary
during the Quidditch match? [Laughter] It was that. I really enjoyed
doing that. Actually I really enjoyed doing that.  You know, that was
the last Quidditch match. I knew as I wrote it that it was the last
time I was going to be doing a Quidditch match. To be honest with you,
Quidditch matches have been the bane of my life in the Harry Potter
books. They are necessary in that people expect Harry to play
Quidditch, but there is a limit to how many ways you can have them
play Quidditch together and for something new to happen. And then I
had this moment of blinding inspiration. I thought, Luna's going to
commentate, and that was just a gift. It's the kind of commentary I'd
do on a sports match because I'm -[laughs]. Anyway yeah, it was that.

Cindy again:

 Now that Harry has his own house, I don't think he needs those nasty
step-parents of his.  I hope he does magic on them and gets even with
them.

Anne Squires responds:

Harry needs his aunt and uncle's for at least a little while longer. 
On pages 55 and 56 of HBP(US hardback edition)Dumbledore asks the
Dursleys to allow Harry to return once more to renew the magic which
was evoked fifteen year earlier.

"The magic I evoked fifteen years ago means that Harry has powerful
protection while he can call this house "home.".....This magic will
cease to operate the moment that Harry turns seventeen; in other
words, at the moment he becomes a man.  I ask only this:  that you
allow Harry to return once more, to this house, before his seventeenth
birthday, which will ensure that the protection continues until that
time."


On page 650 Harry tells Ron and Hermione, "I'm going back to the
Dursleys' once more, because Dumbeldore wanted me to.  But it'll be a
short visit, and then I'll be gone for good."

Therefore, as soon as Harry turns seventeen I'm sure he will leave no.
4 Privet Dr. forever.  I'm not sure if he will do any magic on his
relatives though.  I think he might think they aren't worth the
trouble.  

One thing I have wondered about though are the reactions Ron and
Hermione and the Dursleys will have to each other. On page 651 Ron
tells Harry that he and Hermione will be with him at his aunt and
uncle's.  I certainly can imagine either Ron or Hermione casting
spells against the Dursleys, especially since both of them are already
seventeen and thus not restrained by the decree against the use of
underage magic.