OPEN: Ultimate and Last Bragging Rights by TigerPatronus

[Constance Vigilance]

No: HPFGUIDX 171000

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. He will seem to die but will reappear before the end. He will 
either go through the veil and come back out, or he will take the 
Draft of Living Death.

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

Yes. Dead and gone. No Vapormort. Not even a ghost.

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

Hagrid. Snape, too, but everybody will guess that. I'm guessing 
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?

A Dark mark.

5. Assuming Hogwarts reopens as a school, who will return as a
student (answer yes or no for each):
      a. Harry?		No.
      b. Draco?		No.
      c. Hermione?	Yes.
      d. Luna?		Yes.
      e. Ron?		Yes. Can you imagine Molly's rage if he 
didn't?
      f. Neville?	Yes. He has to pass his N.E.W.T. that gives 
him the cred to teach at Hogwarts.
      g. Ginny?		Yes.

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

Hagrid and Olympe. Because Bill and Fleur is a gimme and Lupin and 
Tonks is trite. Oh, and if all three couples wed, then I want extra 
credit because fewer people will vote for the Hagrid/Olympe ship.

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

Dudley.

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

9. Where do Snape's ultimate loyalties lie? With the good guys.

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. Diary.
      b. Ring.	
      c. Locket.
      d. Cup.
      e. Ravenclaw's wand.
      f. Intended to be the house at Godric's Hollow. Because the 
horcrux failed (causing the house to fall), it was transferred to 
some unknown object.
      g. In Voldemort.


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?

Patronus: Fox. (Crafty guy)
Boggart: Someone laughing at him. (Humiliation)

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

Love. (The Pillar of Storge)



Predictions (10 points each / 50 points total):

Make 5 predictions not covered in the Compulsory Question section.

1. A character everybody believes is dead will re-appear. In the 
flesh. Not Dumbledore.

2. Peeves will have an important function. He may go through the 
veil, since not being alive, he should have no problem coming back 
out.

3. Lupin will duel to the death with Fenrir Greyback.

4. The elves of Hogwarts will free themselves using Hermione's hats 
and become another Army of Dumbledore.

5. Peter Pettigrew will lose another body part.

6. The blond death eater in the Battle of Hogwarts is a good guy.

7. Dolores Umbridge will do something nefariously evil to further her 
own purposes.

8. The students of Durmstrang will become a force in the Final 
Battle, fighting under General Krum.

9. The Final Battle will be timed so that any werewolf who is 
involved will transform right in the middle of it.

10. There is at least one Time Turner still in existence.

11. The fact that the pipes lead to the lake will be put to use.

12. The houses will unite permanently, putting the Sorting Hat out of 
business.

13. There is something special about Gryffindor's sword. Like 
Excalibur, pulling it from a stone, I mean *hat*, makes you a king.

14. The Mirror of Erised will make a return appearance.

15. First Ron, then Arthur will find themselves in charge of the 
grail, I mean the Goblet of Fire. (They represent the Father and Son 
Fisher Kings who, both injured, guarded the grail in Arthurian legend)

16. ESE!Pigwidgeon will prove not to be such a ridiculous theory. I 
invented it, I like it. So there.

17 - and FINALLY!!! That we will see Quirrell again. The Man with Two 
Faces, Quirinus Janus, The God of Beginnings and Endings.