OoP clues?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 157970

akh wrote:
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> 
> <snip> I decided to think about the locations beyond Hogwarts, and
for grins added a couple of Hogwarts places that aren't generally on
the syllabus.  Here are my initial thoughts about their importance to
the rest of the story:
>   
> Privet Drive – been there, done that, but we get an interesting
tidbit about Petunia and we finally learn about Mrs. Figg, but perhaps
not all.  I'm still suspicious about her house smelling like cabbages
(polyjuice, anyone?) and the tent in GoF smelling like cats and
reminding Harry of Mrs. Figg's house.

Carol responds:
I'm betting on a Battle of Privet Drive the moment Harry turns
seventeen and Mrs. Figg being the one to do magic at an advanced age.
> 
AKH:
> 12 Grimmauld   Place – we're pretty sure it'll figure into the
Horcrux hunt.  There may be additional clues there, too. <snip>

Carol:
Yes, and Kreacher will probably be back home with orders to stay
there. Maybe Dobby will keep him company. Funsies!

>     
akh: 
> The Burrow – been there before; any significance to going again? 
Were returned there in HBP.  I'm not coming up with any brilliant theories

Carol:
Well the wedding is likely to be held there (perhaps a double wedding
with Lupin/tonks as a second couple). And I expect that clock to play
a role, although it was disappointing to me that its hands were
already pointing at "mortal peril" in HBP. Maybe Percy will show up
with Penelope Clearwater? (Or, heaven forfend, Rufus Scrimgeour.) We
need to see more from Bill, the curse breaker, and Charlie, the dragon
handler. I'm hoping that the Weasleys aren't stupid enough to announce
the wedding in the paper until it's over, but if they do announce it,
the DEs are sure to crash it. (Anyone familiar with the Cossacks
ruining the wedding reception in "Fiddler on the Roof"? It might be
like that, only worse.) Also, I almost forgot Bill's role as liaison
to the goblins. Will we hear any more of Ludo Bagman? Will we meet
Ragnok the goblin in person? (I can hardly wait. Not.)
> 
akh: 
> Hogsmeade, including the Hog's Head – we can presume a first glimpse
of Aberforth is worth noting for the future

Carol:
Yes, there's the Mundungus/Aberforth connection, for one; the Snape
connection, for another; and the all-consuming question of why Albus
would think that Aberforth might not be able to read (if he were a
goat, Albus would know the answer!) I think Aberforth is and always
has been an important part of Dumbledore's spy network. And he's the
only living link to Dumbledore. Maybe he inherited the Pensieve and
the bottled memories?
> 
akh:
> St. Mungo's Hospital – this is fraught with all kinds of
possibilities.   Are others heading back there for treatment?  Is it
holding a "key to everything/"  Enquiring minds want to know! 

Carol:
Well, there's the unresolved identity of Agnes, the dog-faced woman
and the fate of Healer What's her Name, who was suspended with pay.
And I want to see Snape get a job as researcher/Healer at St. Mungo's
when it's all over. I'd like to see that mind and those talents put to
good use. 
> 
akh:
>     In Hogwart's: 
>   Room of Requirement – that's already figured into book 6, and we
suspect it may have yet another role to play in book 7, with all the
junk - er - valuable treasures stored there

Carol:
The tiara? And Harry will probably return for the HBP's book,
rationalizing that Snape wasn't a murderer yet when he wrote those
potions hints and invented spells. And I think there's at least a
fifty/fifty chance for a Battle of Hogwarts and a much higher chance
for a talk or two with Dumbledore's portrait. (Will we get to find out
what all those instruments are for? Probably not. But we'll surely go
once more into the Pensieve, good friends.)
> 
akh:    
>   Forbidden Forest – we saw places and creatures we hadn't met
before; which are putting in another appearance in 7?  Grawp? (That'll
thrill millions - or not)  Thestrals?  Herd of Centaurs? <snip>

Carol:
Alas, yes, we haven't heard the last of Grawpy. He warn't sivilized
for nuthin, ya know (oops, wrong accent--that's Huckleberry Finn, not
Hagrid). And the flying motorcycle has probably mated with the flying
Ford Anglia and created lots of little flying three-wheeled carts. I
don't think we'll see new monsters, but we may see more of the old
ones. And what about those werewolves who supposedly live there,
mentioned in CoS?

Also, you forgot to mention Azkaban, whither our friends Malfoy,
Dolohov, Avery, Macnair, the Lestrange brothers, et al. were sent in
OoP. Will there be another mass breakout in Book 7? I was expecting it
in HBP.

Carol, wondering whatever happened to Sturgis Podmore now that he's
released from Azkaban and whether he ever returned Moody's best
Invisibility Cloak