Hogwarts Theory

[jelly92784]

No: HPFGUIDX 172092

While trying to write out my own predictions last weekend I came up 
with a whole new thought about what might happen at Hogwarts.  I'm 
sure that bits of this have come up, if so, sorry to repeat.

I was trying to figure out who was going to take the places as 
Headmaster and various other teaching positions.  I think that 
McGonagall will not only became Headmistress (with Flitwick as the 
new deputy) but I think, for lack of other candidates, she will 
maintain her role as Transfiguration teacher and head of Gryffindor.

I think that about halfway through the year Slughorn will recieve a 
visit from Voldemort himself, and be tortured into revealing the 
fact that he revealed his knowledge of Tom Riddle's interest in 
horcruxes to Dumbledore.  Voldemort can then guess (or not) whether 
Dumbledore shared this information with anyone else.  Slughorn will, 
of course, be killed.  This will then prompt Voldemort into looking 
after his horcruxes, complicating things for our Harry.

I think that at this point, rather than scramblng to find another 
potions master/head of slytherin, McGonagall will simply combine 
houses (I see Hogwarts as being much less populated this year, 
making this an easy move).  I think that Ravenclaw and Slytherin and 
then Hufflepuff and Gryffindor to be likely groupings, with Flitwick 
and Sprout as heads.  This will help with the whole house unity 
issue, as well as free up a bit of McGonagall's time.  As for 
potions master, I think that maybe McGonagall will try to find 
someone, but I'm not sure whether or not she will succeed, and the 
subject may have to be dropped for a time (Unless she wants to use 
one of her divination teachers, as she has two!)

As many people have stated, I think that Viktor Krum will be the new 
DADA teacher.  It makes sense in a lot of ways.  He went to 
Durmstrang which, as Draco so kindly lets us know, actually teaches 
the dark arts to its students, not just "this defense rubbish we 
do".  I think that Krum likely knows *something* about horcruxes, 
which could possibly help Harry.  Also, Krum did tell Hermione that 
he preferred Hogwarts to Durmstrang and Jo did tell us that Krum 
would be back.

What do you think?

Janelle