FOR DISCUSSION: Ultimate and Last Bragging Rights Contest by TigerPatronus

[TK Kenyon]

No: HPFGUIDX 170949

Friends, 

Here are the tentative rules and questions for the Ultimate and Last 
Bragging Rights Contest. Please read and respond if you think 
anything is unfair or too speculative, or downright wrong. 

Yours in HP, 
TK -- TigerPatronus! 


RAYOR SPOILER ALERT: THESE RULES INCLUDE ONE VERY SMALL DH SPOILER 
GLEANED FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID YATES, THE OOTP MOVIE DIRECTOR 
AND REFERENCES TO THE RELEASED COVERS.


Rules: 

Copy these questions and email your answers *both* to 
*tigerpatronus* *at* *yahoo* *dot* *com* and to the newsgroup. You 
must email your entry to TigerPatronus to be entered in the contest. 
You will receive an email confirmation of your entry. In the event 
of a dispute, the entry posted to the group will be your back-up.

Deadline: Thursday, July 19, 2007, at 11:59 pm (midnight) EDT. (No 
Friday entries will be accepted.) 

Any details released by JKR or subsidiaries are worth no credit 
*after* they are released. Example: if you predict that "The trio 
will ride a dragon,'" it will be worth 0 points. However, if you 
make a prediction and email your prediction to the list and to 
TigerPatronus and *then* the detail is released, you will get full 
credit. 

If you are JKR, work at the publishing company, hacked Bloomsbury's 
computers, or have somehow else have already read the book, don't 
enter. We will find out, hunt you down, and give you a virtual 
thermonuclear wedgie. 

Specificity will be rewarded. Brevity is . . . wit.

All decisions of the judges (TigerPatronus and her Minions) are 
arbitrary, ruthless, and final. (Minion recruitment is now open.)


Prizes:

Grand Prize (1): Bragging rights in perpetuity. All HPfGU members 
must address you as "Your Brilliance," "Leader of the 
Intelligentsia," "The HP-est," or another superlative title of your 
own choosing. A filk will be composed in your honor. A year's worth 
of free butterbeer.

Honorable Mentions (10): Bragging rights in perpetuity. All HPfGU 
members must address you as "Pretty Smartie," "A Member of the 
Intelligentsia," "Quite HP-ish," or a subordinate title of your own 
choosing. A free case of butterbeer.


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? 

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

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

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? 

5. Assuming Hogwarts reopens as a school, who will return as a 
student (answer yes or no for each): 
     a. Harry? 
     b. Draco? 
     c. Hermione?
     d. Luna? 
     e. Ron? 
     f. Neville? 
     g. Ginny? 

6. Which will be the most prominent couple to marry in DH, if any? 

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

8. Assuming Hogwarts reopens as a school, who will be the: 
     a. Head Boy? 
     b. Head Girl? 
     c. DADA Instructor? 
     d. Potions Master or Mistress? 
     e. Headmaster or -mistress? 

9. Where do Snape's ultimate loyalties lie? 

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. 
     b. 
     c. 
     d. 
     e. 
     f. 
     g. 


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? 

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



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. 

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