OPEN: Ultimate and last bragging rights

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 171296

>
> 1. Will Harry die and stay dead at the end of HPDH?

He'll seem to die, or die symbolically, but in the end he'll survive.

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

He'll suffer a fate worse than death.

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

Severus Snape.   

> 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 and 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? Ernie Macmillan
b. Head Girl? Hermione 
c. DADA Instructor? It will remain a vacancy, as no one can be found
who wants to take the job, but several characters will give show up to
give guest lessons. (My unserious alternative is the portrait of
Phineas Nigellus, which is maybe impervious to the DADA curse.)
d. Potions Master or Mistress? Slughorn
e. Headmaster or -mistress? McGonagall

> 9. Where do Snape's ultimate loyalties lie?

With Harry. He was never DDM, but OFH all the time, but at the latest
possible moment he'll redeem himself by choosing Harry's side,
possibly at the cost of his own life. 

> 10. Identify the seven Horcruxes. 
a. In Voldemort
b. Tom Riddle's diary
c. The Peverell ring
d. Slytherin's locket
e. Helga Hufflepuff's cup
f.  Rowena Ravenclaw's wand.
g. Was to be something at Godric (Gryffindor)'s Hollow, but ended up
as 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 boggart?

He can't produce a corporeal Patronus when faced with Dementors.
Boggart: Voldemort killing Harry 

> Alternate 2. What is behind the locked door at the Department of
> Mysteries in the Ministry of Magic?

Love in all its manifestations.

> Predictions (10 points each / 50 points total):
>
> Make 5 predictions not covered in the Compulsory Question section.
> 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. Privet Drive will be attacked early in the book and Vernon Dursley
will be killed by Death Eaters. Aunt Petunia and Dudley will be taken
to Grimmauld Place for their own safety.   

2. There is a link between Fenrir Greyback and Regulus Black;
possibly, Regulus got bitten by Fenrir as a punishment for wanting to
leave the Death-eaters. In alchemy, the `grey wolf' stands for
antimony, and the regulus of antimony is the refined metal isolated
from the ore, heavy enough to sink to the bottom of the crucible. It
is described as a bright semimetal resembling tin or dusky silver -
the Slytherin connection... Refined: Regulus came out of the
Death-eater crucible a better man. It was then that he decided to
destroy the locket Horcrux.

3. Wormtail will turn out to be the only Muggle-born Death-eater.

4. The draught of Living Death will finally play a role, and it will
be connected with Lily (the draught contains asphodel, which is a word
for lily), though Lily herself is definitely dead. Related to question
2 above, it will probably make Harry seem dead, but he'll come to life
again. 

5. Fleur will show the aggressive and unpleasant side of her Veela
heritage, maybe when she retaliates against Greyback.

And two more, because of the symbolical number 7:  

6. Harry will not kill Voldemort but vanquish him by his capacity to
love. This will not involve learning to close his mind, keep his mouth
shut, and mastering his feelings, as Snape wants him to do, but
precisely the opposite. 

7. Harry and Ginny will definitively get together at the end of Book
7, but first, they'll both suffer separately. Possibly, Ginny will do
something without which Harry could never have vanquished Voldemort.
At the end, they will look into the Mirror of Erised together and only
see themselves.

Renée