And the Trelawney award goes to.....(Re: Do we really get our closer?)

[gary_braithwaite]

No: HPFGUIDX 177234

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "KathyK" <zanelupin at ...> wrote:
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> KathyK:
>
> I didn't enter the contest but I did make some random predictions way
> back when.

Gary:
The contest was also well before my time.  However I would like
everyone to howl at my out-of-box prediction that of course did not
come close to being true --

- Neville kills LV when the opportunity arises in the final scene
after Harry fails to do so (and after all of the Horcluxes are
eliminated somehow).  Both were covered by the prophecy.  By chance
LV's target before Neville when they were babies, Harry originally
lived because of his mother's great skill and sacrifice.  Being a
living Horclux as a by-product of the encounter, HP had his link to LV (and the scar to prove that "he had lived".)  Seeing an opportunity to further confuse our not very bright chief villian, HP had been the decoy set up by Dumbledore from the beginning.  None of heroism in the prior six books was false.

On the other hand, Neville had been secretly trained, provided with
the necessary information which could not be shared with the "decoy"
for security reasons, and his apparent foolishness was part of the
deception.  IF Harry somehow succeeded, great.  If not, Neville was
ready.

Hey, in my defense, it makes HP's apparently out of loop status on
information throughout the series make more sense.  Why otherwise
treat the one, great hope for the future in the fashion that Harry was treated? (Dumbledore's apology to Harry in DH, AmEd, page 720 is very weak.)

OK, laugh now.  Very loudly.  I had two more alternative endings that
I will spare everyone unless requested.

Better predictions --

- Harry was the last Horclux.  Somehow he had to die and yet live.
(Thought it was going to be due to the blood connection -- why
Dumbledore smiled at the end of GoF.)
- Harry, Hermione and Ron live.  Easy one, Warner Bros. has two more
movies at over $250M a pop to produce and sell.
- One of Weasley twins dies.  OK, I did not select a specific one.


Hopes that failed to appear in print -

- As further bad news for the Weasley family before either Fred's or
George's death (see above), Ginny and Ron each would die in sacrifices so Harry and Hermione would live and continue on the quest.

Just think about it -- why was it so hard for LV to catch Harry if he
really thought about it?  Just kidnap the available good friends, even at Hogwarts, and demand Harry show up to redeem them or else.   Of course, it turns out that the trio was wandering about with no plan and no communications links to the world for months, so it may have looked like the ending of Sparticus before Harry realized what was going on ...

LV did suffer mightly from inept help - the ghoul-Ron to disguise
Ron's activities should not have worked for more than two minutes.
Why would they care if Ron was "sick"?  Do you think that Harry's
breakup at the end of HBP with Ginny would have confused anyone about
their real relationship?  Again, would they have cared?