OPEN: Ultimate and Last Bragging Rights by TigerPatronus

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No: HPFGUIDX 170998


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?

Yes 

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

Horace Slughorn and Luna Lovegood will die, among 
the good guys.  I'm not sure which would be considered 
the more prominent.   

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?

His Dark Mark 

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?   No
     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 and Fleur 

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

Mrs. Figg

8. Assuming Hogwarts reopens as a school, who will be the: 
     a. Head Boy?   Ron
     b. Head Girl?   Hermione 
     c. DADA Instructor?   Bill Weasley
     d. Potions Master or Mistress?   Horace Slughorn
     e. Headmaster or -mistress?   Minerva McGonagall

9. Where do Snape's ultimate loyalties lie? 

With Dumbledore

10. Identify the seven Horcruxes. [...] 
     a. In Voldemort
     b. Tom Riddle's diary
     c. Slytherin's locket
     d. The Gaunt ring
     e. Helga Hufflepuff's cup
     f. A Ravenclaw relic we have not seen yet (not the 
        wand or the tiara).
     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—spider
Boggart—dead Harry 

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

It is the room in which Love is studied.  There will 
be a device or object/s of some kind in keeping with 
the pattern of the other rooms in the Department of 
Mysteries.  It/they will be blood red like the Philosopher's 
Stone. (I really, really hope it is not a tank full 
of human hearts.)

Predictions (10 points each / 50 points total):

Make 5 predictions not covered in the Compulsory 
Question section.
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1.	Oh, what the heck. Gopher baroque!  I'm going 
to have the courage of my convictions and make my # 1 
prediction be that Severus Snape is not the Half Blood Prince.

2.	Harry's recognition of Snape's true character 
will play a critical role in the defeat of Voldemort.  
It will be what causes the door to the locked room in 
the DoM to open. 

3.	Dumbledore has impersonated Snape several times, 
both before Voldemort's downfall and after his return.

4.	The Lupin who stayed with the Weasleys during 
a very frosty Christmas was not the real Lupin.

5.	Albus Dumbledore was not killed by an AK on 
the astronomy tower.

6.	The real Lupin's negligence contributed in 
some way to the assault on Hogwarts.  That is to say 
that I believe Lupin's character flaws will be shown 
to have evil consequences, but not that Lupin himself 
was evil from the beginning.

7.	Madam Pince's long black veil will turn out to 
be significant either because it was hiding someone 
else on the day of DD's funeral or because she herself 
is not who she appears to be.  
(I'll stop with lucky seven.)

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