OPEN: Ultimate and Last Bragging Rights by TigerPatronus

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 171109

 


As some people are understandably eager to make their predictions  
known, here we go! Note *minor* question changes. 


RAYOR SPOILER  ALERT: THESE RULES INCLUDE ONE VERY SMALL DH SPOILER 
GLEANED FROM AN  INTERVIEW WITH DAVID YATES, THE OOTP MOVIE DIRECTOR 
AND REFERENCES TO THE  RELEASED COVERS.


Rules: 

Copy these questions and email your  answers *both* to 
*tigerpatronus* *at* *yahoo* *dot* *com* and to the  newsgroup. You 
must email your entry to TigerPatronus to be entered in the  contest. 
You will receive an email confirmation of your entry. In the event  
of a dispute, the entry posted to the group will be your  back-up.

Deadline: Thursday, July 19, 2007, at 11:59 pm (midnight) EDT.  (No 
Friday entries will be accepted.) 

Any details released by JKR or  subsidiaries are worth no credit 
*after* they are released. Example: if you  predict that "The trio 
will ride a dragon,'" it will be worth 0 points.  However, if you 
make a prediction *and email your prediction to the list and  to 
TigerPatronus* and *then* the detail is released, you will get full  
credit. 

If you are JKR, work at the publishing company, hacked  Bloomsbury's 
computers, or have somehow else have already read the book,  don't 
enter. We will find out, hunt you down, and give you a virtual  
thermonuclear wedgie. 

Specificity will be rewarded. Brevity is . . .  wit.

All decisions of the judges (TigerPatronus and her Minions) are  
arbitrary, ruthless, and final. (Minion recruitment will begin  soon.)


Prizes:

Grand Prize (1): Bragging rights in perpetuity.  All HPfGU members 
must address you as "Your Brilliance," "Leader of the  
Intelligentsia," "The HP-est," or another superlative title of your 
own  choosing. A filk will be composed in your honor. A year's worth 
of free  butterbeer.

Honorable Mentions (10): Bragging rights in perpetuity. All  HPfGU 
members must address you as "Pretty Smartie," "A Member of the  
Intelligentsia," "Quite HP-ish," or a subordinate title of your own  
choosing. A free case of butterbeer.


Compulsory Questions (50  points total):

If you believe the answer to a question is a new  character, 
write "new character" *and* describe relationships to old  characters 
or characteristics of new character for full  credit.


1. Will Harry die and stay dead at the end of HPDH? 
 
NO.

2. Will Voldemort die and stay dead at the end of HPDH? 
 
YES.

3. Excluding Harry and Voldemort, who will be the most  prominent 
character to die and stay dead? 
 
HAGRID. 

4. From HBP (p125, American Hardcover), in the shop while  the trio 
were listening with Extendable Ears, what did Draco show Borgin  that 
scared him? 
 
THE DARK MARK.

5. Assuming Hogwarts reopens as a school, who will  return as a 
student, which means enrolled in classes whether or not they  attend 
the classes (answer yes or no for each): 
a.  Harry?  NO
b. Draco?  NO
c. Hermione?  YES
d. Luna?   YES
e. Ron?  YES
f.  Neville?  YES
g. Ginny?  YES

6. Which  will be the most prominent couple to marry, if any, during 
the time period  covered in DH, excluding any epilogue? 
 
BILL & FLEUR

7. Who will be the unusual person who performs  magic for the first 
time "very late in life?" 


ARABELLA FIGG 

8. Assuming Hogwarts reopens as a school, who will be the: 
a. Head Boy? THEODORE NOTT
b. Head Girl?  HERMIONE GRANGER
c. DADA Instructor?  BILL  WEASLEY
d. Potions Master or Mistress?   SLUGHORN 
e. Headmaster or -mistress?  MCGONAGALL

9. Where do Snape's ultimate loyalties lie?  
With Albus Dumbledore and his cause to defeat Voldemort.

10.  Identify the seven Horcruxes. (If you think there are more or 
less than  seven, write "n/a" or add extra letters as necessary. 
Horcruxes in previous  books and previously inactivated Horcruxes 
must be identified for full  credit. If you think one of the soul 
pieces is in Voldemort so there are six  external Horcruxes plus the 
bit still in him, then write "In Voldemort" for  one of the answers.) 
a. Voldemort has the "main"  soul piece.
b. The Diary  (destroyed).
c. The Ring  (destroyed).
d. Slytherin  locket.
e. Hufflepuff  cup.
f.  The missing (Ravenclaw) wand  from the window at Ollivander's.
g. Harry's scar.


In case Hogwarts does not reopen, or in case we  do not have 
sufficient information to answer #5 and #8 above, these two  
alternate questions will used in place of #5 and #8, above. If #5 
and #8  are sufficiently answered in DH, the alternate questions will 
be used as  tiebreakers. 

Alternate 1. What are Snape's patronus and boggert? 
 
Patronus: Not just any Phoenix--Fawkes. And it will be noted in DH that  this 
is a
*new* Patronus for Snape, the previous onehaving been something innocuous  
such
as a bat or a spider.
Boggart: A dead Harry Potter. Whatever his motivation, a promise to  
Dumbledore
or to Lily, the life-debt to James, his own determination to atone for his  
sins, Snape
fears most that Harry will die before he can fulfill his destiny and defeat  
Voldemort.

Alternate 2. What is behind the locked door at the Department  of 
Mysteries in the Ministry of Magic?  Love, specifically sacrificial  love.



Predictions (10 points each / 50 points total):

Make  5 predictions not covered in the Compulsory Question section.

Current  Off-Limit Spoilers: 
-- Predictions that describe any the covers are worth 0  points 
unless they include specific information not obvious in the  cover.
-- SPOILER: Kreacher will be in DH. (David Yates, interview.) (Note:  
because we are pretty sure that Kreacher will figure at least 
somewhat  prominently in DH, any predictions about his presence on a 
cover will also  be worth 0 points.) 
-- The probable identity of "R.A.B." as stumbled around  by JKR 
during Leaky / Mugglenet interview will earn 0 points. 
--  Predictions based on "Gabriel the Hacker" are allowed but we will 
laugh at  you when they're wrong. 
-- Anything stupidly obvious (e.g., Harry will turn  17, Ron and 
Hermione will date, Voldemort is evil, someone will perform  magic,) 
will be worth 0 points, at most. Negative points are possible.  
-- "Negative" predictions, i.e., "The Centaurs will *not* come 
skipping  into Hogwarts offering free pony rides," will receive no 
credit. 
-- Only  your first 5 predictions will be evaluated and included in 
your score. Extra  predictions may be marveled at but will not be 
scored. 

1. Wormtail  will kill Fenrir with his silver hand, repaying his debt to 
Harry.
Unfortunately (or not) he will be mortally wounded in the process.
2. We  will find out Snape has--or had--a son.
3. Harry will meet Sirius, Dumbledore  and his parents again beyond the
Veil. He will be tempted to remain with them, but upon their urging  he
will return to the living.
4. Snape will personally help Draco turn and  escape to the good side,
where Draco will assist Harry and the Order.
5. Regulus Black will  make an appearance, and his knowledge will help
Harry defeat the Dark Lord.
6. This one doesn't count I know, but if Snape lives he will never  return
to Hogwarts but will put his Potions and Dark Arts knowledge to use
by concocting cures for various WW ailments, including werwolfism.
7. And one more...In the epilogue we will find that the student who has  
become a professor at Hogwarts is none other than Draco Malfoy. He
will become the Potions professor, reflecting his gratitude to  Severus
Snape for saving him on the Tower and as noted in #4 above.

 
Julie







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