Snape turns out to be the really evil one. Voldemort turns out to be Harry’s real father. Harry tries to reedeem Violdemort because he senses the good in him. But Snape and Voldemort try to turn Harry to the dark side of magic. When Harry refuses, Snape tries to kill him, but Voldemort saves Harry’s life, and kills Snape, but is mortally wounded in the process.
Seriously though, my prediction is: Gilderoy Lockhart will return, this time as a genuine hero instead of a phony. He saves Harry’s life
It seems really unlikely that Harry will die at the end of the series. For one, that would be a real downer, and unnecessarily so, for a coming-of-age series. The books are about Harry’s passage to adulthood, not into death.
Also, Rowling has said she’s considering writing an 8th book about Harry as an adult.
I very much doubt that Voldemort will be anything but evil. He doesn’t understand love. He enjoys murder and torture immensely. He’s as twisted as a villian gets.
Does anyone else think that the entire Wizarding society is in for a bit of a shake-up? I’ve noticed a couple of references to Goblin rebellions, and in the latest book there’s a conversation to the effect that the Goblins might side with Voldemort, if only for the political franchise that he’d offer, which under the current administration, they’d been denied.
My take for the end is Dumblemores death. Don’t know why, but I’m convinced that by the end of the series, he will have died to save Harry’s life, causing Harry much angst, but ultimately giving him the courage to face down Voldemort, despite the knowlege that he might die.
Otherwise I’d love her to end the books right before the final battle, just for the sheer, frustrating rar!-ness of it
I was thinking, will JK bring back Sirius, because he did not die by any physical or magical means he simply entered the life after death, is it possible for him to return?
The “Revelation about Lily” has me nervous. She’s my favourite Book-Mom of all time, and if JK besmirches her… GRRRR!
On second thought, maybe it’s that she was originally in love with Snape, but he rejects her out of bitterness, thinking that she is just pitying him, and James is her second choice. But I don’t see how that would fit an arc and I’m just talking out of my butt anyway.
kung fu lola, that’s very close to what I imagined, just perhaps…
…add some intrigue/betrayal by James. Now that I think about it, I don’t know why I have such a negative image of him, but in my opinion the possibility that he “stole” Snape’s love and made him the character he is today would fit into the story.
As far as a Lily-Snape relationship is concerned, there is still the not-so-scientific anagram clue…
This couldn’t happen. Because if Harry had gone back in time to prevent Voldemort from killing his parents, then the present (ie, when Voldemort did kill the Potters) would never happen and James and Lilly would be alive today. The present must take into account any who have travelled back in time. I think Harry would reject going back simply because he wouldn’t want to change EVERYTHING.
I’ve always seen Harry and Draco Malfoy somehow becoming friends and allies (or perhaps lovers- now that’d be a shocker for the religious right to kvetch about).
I think Snape’s boggart will be his father (who may or may not be Voldemort). I also wonder if the Dementors will somehow save the day in Book 6 ort 7, or if Dumbledore’s brother (who has been mentioned several times but never in detail) will come into play ala Mycroft Holmes. I think it’s almost a foregone conclusion that at some point in the last two books, Dumbledore is toast and the Weasley twins will become major heroes.
On the contrary, I think Harry is quite stupid enough to envision AND try to act on such a “solution.” But in my paradoxical story arc, his solution takes place
[spoiler]after he kills Voldemort. See, the battle also ends in the deaths of every Gryffindor at Hogwarts, plus every member of the Order of the Phoenix. Harry decides that he must prevent the entire sorry mess from ever transpiring, so he steals a Jumbo-sized Time-Turner and heads for Hangleton, circa 1926, intending to warn Mr. Marvolo’s daughter not to date any Muggles named Riddle.
Unfortunately, when he gets there, she’s already married to Tom Riddle pere. He presses on, however, trying to warn her to not reproduce. He spends considerable time alone with her in these efforts, develops a caring relationship, and one thing leads to another, if you catch my drift. Tom Riddle catches them in flagrante delicto one fine afternoon, and in the finest W. Somerset Maughm tradition, gives Harry a shotgun blast between the eyes, and turns his bride out into the street. Thus we learn that Harry, not Tom Riddle, is actually Voldemort’s father.[/spoiler]
Yes, I DO feel rather dumb putting such a preposterous hypothesis in a spoiler box; why do you ask?
I too hope that Sirius returns, I mean what a lame way to die.
He fell through the curtained door.
Oh, well can’t he just walk back through.
No. No he can’t.
Well why don’t you put up a warning sign, or a frelling wall to STOP PEOPLE FALLING IN AND DYING!!
Also:
Could Lily have been a Slytherin? I bet that’s her big secret. And as for Harry having his mother’s eyes, does that mean that Lily’s last charm changed his eyes. Maybe a splinter from her shattered wand lodged itself in Harry’s eye and now he can destroy Voldemort with laser sight. Yup that’s stupid.
The curtain Sirius fell though was strongly implied to be a doorway from life into death, and was used for executions back before the Wizard prison was built.
I agree. There was a point during OotP where I really thought JKR might have Harry and Voldemort kill each other in a final battle, but I take the prophecy to mean it’s an either/or outcome, and I don’t imagine the author leaving Voldemort alive after killing Harry.
I expect Lupin to get picked off during book 6, so that Harry will have no further contact with a close friend of his father’s. Dumbledore almost certainly dies very near the end of book 7. Snape? I don’t imagine he’ll make it alive all the way to the end, but I’m guessing he gets closer than Lupin does.
I’m still waiting for Dumbledore to die. How can Harry ever really grow up if this DeusEx Machina is always around?
I don’t think Lupin or Snape will die though. Someone had better mess up the LeStrange real good though. Mrs. Lestrange is even more sickening in some ways than Voldemort himself.
Exactly. Harry will become Dumbledore’s successor. With Voldemort and Dumbledore gone by Book 7, Harry will be the most powerful wizard in the world and he’ll only be seventeen.
I still think Neville might be the one to destroy Voldemort. I haven’t read Book 5 in a year, so I need some clarification here: the prophecy says that either Neville or Harry will be the one to bring about Voldemort’s downfall, right? Everyone just assumes it’ll be Harry because Voldemort went to the Potters and not the Longbottoms.