Faith’s Predictions for DH (and mine)

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 171446

Faith's Predictions for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" 
(as dictated to Neri):


1. Dumbledore is really dead.

2. Sirius is really dead as well.

3. So is Regulus Black. So is Emmeline Vance. So is Quirrell.

4. Harry will not kill Voldemort with an Avada Kedavra, nor with any
non-magical weapon.

5. Dumbledore has never been a puppet master (Neri: don't tell me he
didn't keep a few secrets to himself. Faith: sure he did, but he has
never manipulated any of the good guys and has never engineered or
staged any of the books' endings).

6. Dumbledore didn't send Peter to Voldemort on purpose, and did not
knowingly enabled Voldemort to come back in any other way.

7. Dumbledore didn't make the first half of the prophecy known to
Voldemort on purpose. 

8. When Sirius was in Azkaban, Dumbledore didn't know he was innocent.

9. Harry is not Gryffindor's heir.

10. No memory charm of any form was used on little Neville. 

11. R.A.B. is Regulus Black.

12. Lupin is not ESE. 

13. Neither are McGonagall, Sirius, Tonks, Molly, Dobby or Trevor.
(Neri: how about Gran? Faith: Gran isn't either).

14. Snape is not DDM.

15. He's not Voldemort's man either. 

16. His debt to James was at least one of his reasons, probably the
main one, for telling Dumbledore about the danger to the Potters.

17. Snape's tantrum in the Shrieking Shack and in the hospital wing
was not an act.

18. In Spinner's End, Snape was telling the truth when he said he knew
about the plan.

19. There were no loopholes in the Unbreakable Vow (Neri: are you
certain? Faith: I'll say this much: it's possible *Snape* thought
there were loopholes, but if he did then he was wrong).

20. The curse on the tower was a full-blown Avada Kedavra.

21. Dumbledore did not plead with Snape to kill him.

22. In his argument with Dumbledore in the wood, the thing that Snape
"didn't want to do anymore" was not a plan to kill Dumbledore.

23. Snape was not artificially maintaining Dumbledore alive during HBP.

24. (And yet) Dumbledore will prove right about trusting Snape.

25. (Because) Snape will pay his debt. 

26. So will Peter.

27. Draco will come back to the right side.

28. Kreacher will be instrumental in finding a Horcrux.

29. Petunia won't do any magic. Neither will Dudley.

30. The green potion from the cave didn't have any additional effects
beside those stated by Dumbledore: weakening the drinker and trying to
prevent him from taking the Horcrux by any way possible.

31. Ron will say Voldemort's name.

32. The American cover art is a fairly accurate description of a place
we haven't visited yet during the series.

33. At least 80% of Faith's predictions will come true (Neri: you
didn't say if *this* prediction will be among the 80%. Faith: this one
will. And I say 80% because I'm playing it safe).

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Neri again:

Well, unlike Faith I don't play it safe. Where's the fun in that? So
here are *my* predictions:


1. The last of Voldemort's soul parts entered Harry accidentally in
Godric's Hollow, either as a Horcrux or just possessing him (this
difference may not be of importance). 

2. Harry's scar is *not* a Horcrux, at least not in the sense that it
would be possible to dehorcrux Harry by removing the scar without
destroying him (but it is possible that Harry will lose his scar as a
side effect of losing the Voldemort soul part).

3. Harry will have to look into Voldemort's mind and/or the Voldemort
bit inside himself in order to find and/or destroy at least one of the
other Horcruxes.

4. The soul part inside Harry will appear as little Tom and it will
turn out that it has been helping Harry all along. If it leaves Harry
in the end it will be the soul part itself making this choice. 

5. Petunia will give Harry a clue about this. Most likely she knows
little Tom by name.
Dudley had also met little Tom once, and this was the horrible moment
he recalled under the effect of the Dementor.

6. The Hallows are the four founders' objects: the Slytherin Locket,
Hufflepuff Cup, Ravenclaw Wand and Gryffindor Sword. All but the sword
are Horcruxes, but the sword will be important too. 

7. The Ravenclaw Horcrux is the single wand in Olivander's shop window
(alternatively, the wand in the window was transfigured to look like
the real wand Horcrux).

8. After a long goose chase, the locket Horcrux will be found in
Harry's Gringots vault. 

9. Kreacher was with Regulus when they stole the locket from the cave.

10. Bellatrix was entrusted with a Horcrux before GH, most probably
the cup. Draco will be the one to tell Harry about it. He saw it in
her mind when she gave him Occlumency lessons.

11. Frank and Alice Longbottom know the location of this Horcrux,
because they took it from Bellatrix. She tortured them in order to
find where it was, but they weren't telling.

12. Nagini is not a Horcrux (yet, but she may be slated to become one).

13. Arthur Weasley's Office for the Detection and Confiscation of
Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects will play a part
in the search for at least one Horcrux. Harry may take a job in this
office as a cover story for hunting Horcruxes.

14. Voldemort tried to spare Lily because he wanted to turn her into a
living Horcrux, or because Peter had asked him to spare her, or both.

15. Snape wasn't at GH with Voldemort, nor was anybody else (except
maybe Peter). If the question of how Dumbledore knew what had happened
there will come up at all, it will turn out that he was using a
portrait, his silver alchemical set, another magical device or just
plain guesswork.

16. The first or second chapter of DH will be similar to "Spinner's
End", a non-Harry's point-of-view chapter, only this time depicting
Snape with Voldemort himself. Draco and/or Narcissa may make an
appearance too. In this chapter we will get much more conclusive
evidence that Snape has never been DDM.

17. Peter and/or Snape will be instrumental in killing Voldemort. At
least one of them will die too, most probably both.

18. No version of LOLLIPOPS will turn out true. If anybody but James
was in love with Lily it was Peter, possibly even Lupin, but not Snape.

19. "That awful boy" Petunia mentions was not Snape. It was most
probably James, but might turn out to be Peter.

20. One version of ACID POPS will turn out true. Snape had something
about Narcissa, probably with some interesting complication regarding
Lucius, and this was one reason he made the Unbreakable Vow.

21. We will find that Draco turned against Snape and Narcissa in HBP
because he suspected that they had plotted together against his father.

22. Snape will save Harry's life because he had a Life Debt to James.
As a result he will either be killed by Voldemort, or he will have to
sever his ties with Voldemort, or both. 

23. We will find out, probably from Snape himself, that the Worst
Memory scene was his worst memory because he drew James's blood, which
later turned out to have critical implications for the debt plot.

24. Snape had never warned James personally against using Sirius as
his Secret Keeper.

25. It will turn out that during the Occlumency lessons Snape was
perusing some secret mission for Voldemort and/or for himself. Most
likely possibility: he was trying to find Voldemort's lost soul part
in Harry's mind, and failed. 

26. The question of what exactly had happened the night of the battle
in the Department of Mysteries will come up, and there will be certain
revelations, especially regarding Snape's role. It will turn out he
was attempting to achieve his own objectives while maintaining his
covers on both sides. Sirius' role will probably come out better than
it has previously appeared.

27. Bella and Neville will have a second round.

28. Hogwarts will close down, at least in the beginning of the year
and probably for most of the book. 

29. Characters ending up dead, from the most likely and down:
Voldemort, Nagini, Peter, Snape, Luna, Hagrid, Ginny, Bellatrix,
Percy, Lucius, Scrimgeour, Moody, Mundungus, Greyback (is that enough
of a bloodbath? <g>) 

30. Characters staying alive, from the most likely and down:
Hermione, Ron, Harry, Lupin, Tonks, Bill, Neville, Draco, McGonagall,
Umbridge, Fudge, Slughorn.

31. Epilogue chapter: We will *not* be told about the marriage of Ron
and Hermione, nor of Harry and Ginny (assuming she stays alive at all,
which I'm not very optimistic about). At most we may be told about
engagements. However, we *will* be told about the marriage of Lupin
and Tonks (if they both stay alive, which I *am* optimistic about). 


Neri, 
who will be surprised (but pleased) if more than 30% of his
predictions come true.