The seven potions puzzle in Philosopher’s Stone are revealed as representing the seven Weasley children. In this book, the twins will be put under voldemort’s spell, and will betray Harry, thus :
Ron = go forward potion
Percy = go backward potion
Bill, Charlie = nettle wine
Fred, George, Ginny = poison
At the start of book one, Dumbledore said he trusted Hagrid with his life. This turns out to be literally true, Dumbledore will return alive due to Hagrid’s actions.
Neville will definitely die, ars longa vita brevis.
My only speculation for now is that Harry, Ron and Hermione will be convinced to return to Hogwarts for their final year, contrary to their stated intentions at the end of book 6. Without a Hogwarts school career as a structure, why would Book 7 need to be the final book? Somehow, they’ll figure out what they need to while still being students.
Instead of another portrait in some important wizarding institution, Dumbledore’s image will travel freely between Hogwarts’ Headmistress’ Office and his Chocolate Frog Cards.
I’m pretty sure someone else here has mentioned this too, by the way.
Harry dies. He’s the last horricrux, or whatever those things are called. Mark it now people, I haven’t read any of the books and I’m making this prediction. You can bank on it.
Granted, JKR might get backlash for killing off the main character, but what are people going to do? Not buy any of her future books? I’m sure she’d survive.
Based on everything I’ve heard and read just in threads here, it’s really the only logical conclusion. Granted, it may be cliche, but JKR has carried it this far, so she needs to see it through to the end. If she has the balls to go through with it I’ll gain a lot of respect for her.
In the end Harry will become a famous Quidditch player for a major team and he’ll attain his desire to have and be part of a real family, one that he creates with Ginny.
We’ll find out that Dumbledore’s proof of Snape’s commitment to the OotP is that Snape made an Unbreakable Vow to James Potter that he would watch out for Harry at Hogwarts, and Dumbledore acted as the witness. This helps Snape pay his debt to James for saving his life and makes up for him telling Voldy about the part of the prophecy he heard.
I don’t believe Dumbledore is actually dead; I think his ‘murderer’ only saidavada kedavra while performing a different nonverbal spell (remember, he was very skilled at those) to dump dumbledore over the wall, where a fake-body-substitution could happen (by Hagrid?).
I concur.
Also - that R.A.B. on the note at the end has got to be Regulus Black - Sirius’ brother, right?
I also think that Snape, while still remaining a thoroughly unpleasant individual will be discovered to be on the ‘right’ side in the end. Hadn’t thought of that non-verbal spell thing though, AmbushBug, thats interesting…hmmm…
lost in thought…
Harry is going to learn whatever it was that made Dumbledore trusting, which will be so ironclad that he can’t deny it when he learns that Snape killed Dumbledore on Dumbldore’s own orders, in order to get fully into Voldemort’s inner circle and find the one McGuff…er…piece of information Harry needs to finally win. Harry will have to choose between trusting the one man he hates above all others - the man who killed Dumbledore and was quite directly responsible for killing his parents - and letting Voldemort win.
I agree. Remember in OotP, when Harry tried to do the Cruciatus Curse on Bellatrix, but it didn’t work? Well, Dumbledore’s “death” might be something like that. His murderer was powerful enough to create that jet of light from his wand when he said “Avada Kedavra”, but to make sure that the effects of the spell didn’t happen by saying another spell in his head. After all, non-verbal spells were made a big deal in the book.
As for Harry being the last Horcrux and dying, I don’t know about that. I have to re-read the book.
And I also think that the trio will return to Hogwarts. Well, maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
I said this in another thread, but I’ll repeat it here.
I don’t think Dumbledore is dead. I think he and Snapes planned the whole thing so that Snapes will be accepted by Valdemort and can get close to him, thereby becoming the perfect spy. At the end of the book, The Big D will come back and he, Snapes and Harry will team up to kick Valdemort’s butt.
And I think the Harry-Ginny thing is a red herring. I mean, come on now. Harry and Hermione have to wind up together, it’s just one of those things that just has to be.
Was it ever actually said that Draco’s task was to kill Dumbledore? I’m going to re-read tonight, but I’m pretty sure that she was very careful to avoid actually saying that.
