[HPforGrownups] Re: Predictions for the End

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 167198

In order from most plausible to most wildly speculative:

-- Harry will vanquish LV and survive.

-- Hermione, Ron, and Ginny will survive.

-- Luna will be the most major young char to die.  (To borrow from
     Noel Coward, she has "an ethereal, not-quite-of-this-world
     quality" that makes her "the dying sort".)

-- Harry, Ron, and Hermione will use time turners to simultaneously
    attend their 7th year and hunt the Horcruxes.

-- A long chapter will be devoted to Harry taking his N.E.W.T.
    exams.

-- Umbridge will be on Harry's trail all through the Horcrux hunt,
    and will almost ruin everything at a critical juncture.

-- Wormtail will kill Greyback, which also results in the "curing"
     of all Fenrir's victims, including Lupin!

-- The Ravenclaw Horcrux is either Fleur's bridal tiara or
     Neville's wand...  In either case, the Horcrux will cause nastily
     weird things to happen to its owner.

-- The vast power of House-Elves will be pivotal.

-- Harry will face a Lethifold. (See _Fantastic Beasts_)
     
-- Nagini is *not* a Horcrux -- LV is still determined to acquire a
     Griffindor object and use Harry's death to make it Horcrux #6.

-- R.A.B. is for "Regulus Alphard Black", but is *not* Sirius'
     brother, but his *Uncle* Alphard!
     
-- Bellatrix will commit suicide when she finds out that LV is
     indeed half-blood.


Also, some things I hope will happen or be resolved, but probably
won't:

-- Myrtle finds peace, and goes beyond the veil.

-- We find out how the Bloody Baron got bloody (and why
    Peeves fears him).

--  "Perseus Evans" turns out to be not a coincidence after all,
       though less explicit than "I am Lord Voldemort"
       (Snape once saved Lily and/or Andromeda's life, when
       Hagrid tried breeding sea monsters.) :)

-- Daedalus Diggle plays a meaningful role.

-- The House Elves are freed.

-- Fred and George patent bottled Dementorcide  :)

-- Charlie marries a mermaid (one of the sexier species) ;)


Dave