Things you are sure will happen in Harry Potter #6. (Open Spoilers!)

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Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle will move beyond tormenting Harry and company to trying to seriously harm them; not because they become active Death Eaters, but simply because of Malfoy’s desire to avenge his father.

Neville and Luna will become a couple. There’s the shared damage in their past and they are both oddballs. I can see them as an old hippie couple if Neville survives book 7.

Dumbledore dies. It just seems the big step in Harry’s growth to remove his mentor and protector.

Snape dies saving Harry. Snape’s nastiness stems from Harry’s father having saved his life; the only way he is ever going to let this go is to give his for Harry’s. This may not be until book 7.

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Unfortunately, she killed this one already. From her website:

However, I like your idea with Snape. Interestingly, no one expects Snape to die, which (given how Rowling writes) is probably the best indication that he will.

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To become an Auror, Harry has to get a really good grade on his Potions NEWT. However, Snape has control over who he lets into his NEWT class, and he only takes Outstandings (which Harry almost certainly didn’t get), and he probably wouldn’t take Harry in any event. The only way for Harry to do this, then, is to have a new Potions teacher.

Thus: Severus Snape is the next Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. Even he can’t possibly fail Harry in that subject – he’s apparently the best student in the school at it.

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Speaking of alarming, I find it somewhat alarming that Ms. Rowling is using that kind of language. Shippers? What next? Is she going to start writing her own fanfic?

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I wish. Imagine the press release. “Ms Rowling now acknowledges the interest in Draco/Harry fiction, and has decided to write an extra-cannon story of them admitting their feelings.”"

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I once read a hilarious MST3K of a Draco/Lucius fanfic – ripping it apart for cheesy writing and total improbability. It was funny enough that I almost wondered if Rowling herself wrote it anonymously.

Probably not, but it’s still a funny idea.

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Any chance of finding it and sharing it with us?

I have some left-over half-price Easter chocolate, if you need to be bribed.

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I went looking for it, and I can’t find it (but gad, the horrible things I found instead).

But I found the link originally on the SDMB, so it has to be here somewhere.

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I think I’ve read this fanfic.

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All those fanfics are hilarious. The best are a Draco/Harry slash were Harry becomes pregnant.
As for my own ideas, I’m also thinking Dumbly has to die, even if I don’t want him to. I don’t think it’ll happen to the seventh book though. What I’d really like to see is much more with James and Lily. JKR said we won’t need a prequel after the sixth and seventh books, so I’m hoping for much more mention of his parents and what they did in the Order.

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Sorry, I just lurk there.

I’m also fascinated by the theory that the potions puzzle (from the end of Sorcerer’s Stone) foreshadows the seven DADA teachers. In this theory, the three bottles of poison represent DADA teachers that turn out to be evil. The potion that lets you go forward represents a teacher who helps Harry greatly. The potion that lets you go back represents a teacher who hinders Harry, but who is ultimately an ally. (The clues imply that both Forward and Backward are good.) The two bottles of nettle wine represent teachers who neither help nor hurt Harry, and are ultimately of little consequence.

We can’t work the puzzle out for ourselves, because we don’t know the relative sizes of the bottles. (Too bad Rowling didn’t include a diagram or a description of the bottles.) However, Rowling does tell us that the potion to go back was in the bottle on the far right. This lets us narrow down the number of possible solutions to two:

Poison, Wine, Poison, Forward, Poison, Wine, Backward

or

Poison, Wine, Forward, Poison, Poison, Wine, Backward

Compare the second solution to the list of DADA teachers:

Quirrell—Lockhart—Lupin----fake Moody—Umbridge—???-----???
= (evil)—(useless)—(good)-----(evil)----------(evil)
-Poison----Wine------Forward—Poison--------Poison----Wine–Backward

There seems to be a correlation. If the pattern holds, then the next DADA teacher will be an inconsequential “nettle wine” teacher. The editorial on Mugglenet makes a convincing argument that Snape could be the seventh DADA teacher. He hates Harry, and has already failed to teach him occlumancy, but he’s still on Harry’s side.

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Interesting! While I think Harry will score much better on his Potions than expected (which was foreshadowed in OotP by his finding that potions is a lot less stressful sans Snape), you’re perhaps right that an Outstanding is less likely. Snape being the DADA teacher would solve that problem. The only issue is that there is obviously a very GOOD reason why Dumbledore keeps Snape from this job, and we’ve seen nothing to suggest that this reason has recently changed.

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That’s a very cool theory. It is hard to imagine how Harry becomes becomes an Auror without Snape’s approval or removal.

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Interesting. What if Harry is the acting DADA teacher. He is not moving himself forward, so he works as a Wine. He already has been teaching a “class”.

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[Off topic:]

What is a Shipper?

I think we will find out more about the Potter Family and I am wondering if Harry, Ron and Hermione will end up figuring out Transfiguration to help them along with their rule breaking.

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A person who is a fan of a perceived romance, a.k.a. relationship, between fiction characters. The term started with those who perceived a relationship between Jessie and James of Team Rocket, of the show Pokemon. People who read and write fanfiction, fanart and list reasons why such things are possible were called Rocketshippers. I myself thought that Ash and Gary, rivals to the most extreme degree had repressed feelings. A popular theory was that as the series began, each was having feelings for each other, thus prompting them to runaway from town and try to avoid one another. They are both from Pallettown, they I am a Palletshipper.

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Not sure if this has been discussed already, but JK Rowling says there are two key questions which will indicate what will happen in Books Six & Seven, but which she is never asked:

Both are about Voldemort…

  1. Why did Voldemort survive the rebounding curse in the second book?

  2. Why didn’t Dumbledore kill Voldemort when he had the opportunity in Book Five?

Any thoughts…?

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Ooh, another prediction thread! In roughly declining order of certainty:

  1. The opening scene will show us more about Harry’s parents’ deaths.

  2. The HBP is one of the Founders (and I’d bet on Godric if I were betting money, although I personally would prefer it to be Salazar).

  3. Snape will not become DADA teacher until Book Seven. The DADA teacher in HBP will be someone we’ve never heard of before, as usual, and McGonagall will get Harry into NEWT-level Potions the old-fashioned way, by blackmail.

  4. Harry will get to know a Slytherin who isn’t a junior Death Eater, finally, in the person of Theodore, Blaise, and / or Millicent.

  5. In her husband’s absence, Narcissa Malfoy will emerge as a formidable villain.

  6. Igor Karkaroff and Ludo Bagman will turn up again. Bagman was guilty as sin.

  7. Minerva McGonagall is not the spinster she appears to be; she’s either secretly married to Dumbledore, or had a husband and / or a child who died in the first war. (And if her child turns out to be Marlene McKinnon, I’m going to quit this grad school racket and go into business as a psychic. Really.)

  8. Peter Pettigrew will pay off that life-debt, and be murdered by Voldemort (this would be much higher on the list, except I suspect it may not happen 'til Book Seven).

  9. Penelope Clearwater will be killed during the Death Eaters’ first mass attack on Muggleborns. This will drive Percy to reconcile with his family and join the Order.

  10. Viktor Krum will be murdered because Voldemort tries to recruit him and he refuses. (This is an extremely random long shot, based on a dream that I had.)

And, finally, a batty literary-geek pet theory of the week: Bellatrix Lestrange will become a werewolf (because I had this revelation that Sirius is So Totally the Duchess of Malfi, and Bellatrix and Narcissa are Ferdinand and the Cardinal, respectively).

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If you would like to read an enjoyable (if incomplete and non-canon, due to JKR having designated Blaise as a boy) Blaise Zabini fic, may I suggest Post Tenebrae Lux? It can be found at the Checkmated website, Bedchamber section (i.e. NC-17).

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Ah, Divination! While none of my ancestors were Seers, the tea and incense in this forum are making me more Sensitive to the Sight … I Foresee:

  1. Neither Harry nor Voldemort are the HBP.

  2. Dumbledore will die before the end of the series, although JKR may choose his “next great adventure” to begin in the final book.

  3. Snape will become DADA teacher only over Dumbledore’s dead body.

Beyond that, there are too many possible futures … the veils of time are hazing over … I need to rest …