Ultimate and Last Bragging Rights by TigerPatronus

[Tom]

No: HPFGUIDX 171629

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?

Depends on what you mean by "dead"--I think he will suffer a fate
worse than death: a half-life without any soul at all.

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?

NOT a Dark Mark, but something from Voldie

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? YES
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? Ron
b. Head Girl? Hermione
c. DADA Instructor? Aberforth Dumbledore
d. Potions Master or Mistress? Horace Slughorn
e. Headmaster or -mistress? Minerva McGonnigall

9. Where do Snape's ultimate loyalties lie?

With Snape

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. In Voldemort
b. Riddle's diary
c. The Gaunt ring
d. Slytherin's locket
e. Hufflepuff's cup (possibly transfigured into Tom Riddle's "service
to the school" cup)
f. Ravenclaw's tiara (in RoR)
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: Fox
BOGGART: Lily Potter

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

The Room of Love (most importantly, love separated from fear--"pure" 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. The "key" to opening the locked door in the DoM is a patronus
(actually I suspect it will take more than one and that it will be
opened by the patronuses of Snape and Harry).

2. The defeat of Voldemort will be the *first* of two climaxes in the
book.  It will take the combined forces of all four Hogwarts' houses
to accomplish this (yes, including Draco and cronies). The second
climax will be the defeat of Snape, who will experience the Dementors'
kiss.

3. Viktor Krum will provide some general though valuable information
about horcruxes (such as how they are created). This will take place
at the wedding of Fleur and Bill.

4. Petunia will provide Harry with the exact location of the house in
Godric's Hollow. She will have received this information in writing
from "that dreadful boy"--Peter Pettigrew. I'll even go so far to say
that she is hiding this piece of writing under the step that creaks on
the stairs.

5. Lily Potter was not killed by the AK curse, but by blocking the
curse used to create a horcrux.

And one extra: Ron will go through the veil (pre-forecast in the movie
of PoA), but will communicate from the great beyond by using the
two-way mirrors . Harry will go after him to retrieve him. This is
what JKR meant when we see just how close to death (without dying) you
can get in the Potterverse.

Tom