FOR DISCUSSION: Ultimate and Last Bragging Rights Contest by Tig

[j. lutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 171015

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?
Draco

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.

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? -- No
d. Luna? -- Yes
e. Ron? -- No
f. Neville? -- Yes
g. Ginny? -- Yes

6. Which will be the most prominent couple to marry in DH, if any?
Assuming you mean during the narrative, Bill & Fleur.

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

8. Assuming Hogwarts reopens as a school, who will be the:
a. Head Boy? -- Either Neville or Ernie Macmillan
b. Head Girl? -- Pansy
c. DADA Instructor? -- Either Moody or Bill Weasley
d. Potions Master or Mistress? -- Slughorn
e. Headmaster or -mistress? -- McGonagall

9. Where do Snape's ultimate loyalties lie?
Fundamentally for himself, but anti-Voldemort

10. Identify the seven Horcruxes.
a. Diary from COS
b. Ring from HBP
c. Unopenable locket in 12GP from OOP
d. Cup from HBP
e. Ravenclaw's wand, currently being carried by Neville
f. Harry's scar
g. In Voldemort
(Voldemort took a Gryffindor relic to Godric's Hollow, intending to make a Horcrux of it in association with Harry's death, but the process backfired, destroying him physically and creating an accidental Horcrux in Harry's scar.)

Alternate 1. What are Snape's patronus and boggart?
Patronus: Thestral
Boggart: A werewolf at the full moon

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

Make 5 predictions not covered in the Compulsory Question section.

a. Neville (with support from Ginny and Luna) will publicly (re)start the DA.

b. One of Lily and Petunia's parents or grandparents was a Squib who left the Wizarding world and lived as a Muggle; when Lily got a Hogwarts letter, s/he confessed to this and explained the Wizarding world to the girls.

c. Trelawney faked the big prophecy because she realized her job interview was going so badly. (Dumbledore either took it seriously, or recognized the fraud but thought putting the story out there would tempt Voldemort into doing something foolish.) Although it has to some degree come true, because of actions taken by both Dumbledore and Voldemort.

d. Irma Pince is Snape's maternal grandmother, and Filch is actually Tobias Snape, under a cover story of being a Squib. Both are being kept at Hogwarts for their own protection, and as a security for Snape's good behavior.

e. After identifying and destroying what the Trio believes to be the Horcruxes, Harry will kill the reincorporated Voldemort. Then Harry's scar will reveal itself to be the actual last Horcrux, and attempt to possess him. In his last autonomous act, Harry will insist on submitting to a Dementor's kiss, knowing that it will take his soul along with the last fraction of Voldemort's.

j.lutz (aka j_lunatic)