OPEN: Ultimate and Last Bragging Rights by TigerPatronus

[sistermegan]

No: HPFGUIDX 171761

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. But he will lose the use of his magic powers.

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?

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 on his forearm.

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 W. and Fleur D.

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

Petunia Dursley (or Ms. Figg).

8. Assuming Hogwarts reopens as a school, who will be the:

a. Head Boy? Harry, later to be replaced by Ron

b. Head Girl? Hermione, later replaced by Luna

c. DADA Instructor? Lupin returns (after Harry leaves to discover and
destroy the Horcruxii )

d. Potions Master or Mistress? Prof. Slughorn

e. Headmaster or -mistress? Professor McGonagall

9. Where do Snape's ultimate loyalties lie?  Professor Snape  is loyal
to Dumbledore and has been serving on the side against The Dark Lord
since the Potters' deaths.

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. The Ring (HBP)

b. The Locket (from OotP and HBP)

c. The Diary (from CoS)

d. Hufflepuff's Cup (HBP)

e. Harry's scar (all six so far)

f.  Nagini (GoF and HBP)

g. Voldemort (all six so far)

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?

Snape's Patronus : Spider

Snape's Boggart : something to do with ignorance and incompetence

people mocking him and/or laughing at him

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

Complete, total, unconditional love. It is the strongest and purest
form of love, and while it is not harmful in itself, it is so strong
that once a person enters into it, they cannot bear to be seperated
from it (to do so would cause them to die of grief and sadness). It is
equivalent to entering Gan Eden in Medeival Jewish and Catholic Mysticism.

Predictions (10 points each / 50 points total):

Make 5 predictions not covered in the Compulsory Question section.

1.  Peter Pettigrew will have to act against Voldemort to help save
Harry at some point; this will lead to the death of Pettigrew.

2.  Snape was acting under the orders of Dumbledore, but we will only
learn of his full involvement in the OotP after his death. When all
the facts come to light, Hermione will remind Harry and Ron that she
always thought that he was on their side, despite how things *seemed*
from the perspective of Ron and Harry.

3.  Luna and Neville will prove to be key in both the quest to destory
the Horcruxii and to fight Voldemort to the death.  Luna's knowledge
of esoteric subjects and Neville's acumen at Herbology will prove to
save the members of Dumbledore's Army.

4.  We will find out what happened at Godrick's Hollow as well as the
24 hour gap between Hagrid's rescue of Harry from the ruins to his
being left on the Dursley's Doorstep. (I think the 24 hours were to
put protective charms and spells on both Harry and the Dursley's abode
as well as to perform memory charms on the infant so that he would not
be scarred for life by the image of witnessing his parent's deaths. I
likewise believe that Neville had memory charms performed on him, but
that something went wrong -- either accidentally or  because the
DEs/Voldie wanted his memory to be faulty -- and that is why he is so
absent-minded and fuddled.)

5.  We will finally learn the *real* reason that Petunia knows so much
about the Magical World, as well as why she is repressing/in denial of
her magickal nature.  JKR will also answer why Dudley was pampered
while Harry suffered neglect and abuse from the Dursleys.

--
sistermegan