With One Week To Go, Yet Another "Harry Potter Year 6 predictions" thread (spoilers)

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UNBOXED SPOILER ALERT

Rowling has said that Petunia’s not a squib but that there is “more to her than meet’s the eye”. Perhaps this is the one where we’ll learn she’s a witch. (Do you think she had anything to do with her sister’s death? There’s some reason she looks after Harry even though she doesn’t like or love him- could it be guilt or responsibility?)

What do you think will be the after-effects of Book 5 at Hogwarts, now that Malfoy and other Death Eaters are arrested (though I’m sure they won’t stay that way)?

Do you think Sirius will make an appearance, or that he really is dead? (To borrow a line from Dune, “never count anybody as dead until you’ve seen the body, and then don’t be too sure”).

Feel free to Hijack to Cuba Gooding Jr. and back so long as it’s HP related.

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Petunia has to havesomething to do with her sister’s death, I mean she did know about Voldy in book five. What I have no idea.
While I’m seriously hoping Sirius will make an appearance I’m not sure if he will. Though he was described as “just beyond the veil” Dumbledore said in an earlier book that there is no spell to bring someone back from the dead. I just wonder how screwed up and angsty Harry will be in book six, I mean the closest thing he had to his parents and to a father figure is now dead. :frowning: Poor Sirius.

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I’m wondering if Petunia also got a letter, but since she considered Lily a “freak” for being a witch, she refused to go to Hogwarts and just wanted a mundane, Muggle life.

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Rowling has said that Petunia’s not a squib but that there is “more to her than meet’s the eye”. Perhaps this is the one where we’ll learn she’s a witch. (Do you think she had anything to do with her sister’s death? There’s some reason she looks after Harry even though she doesn’t like or love him- could it be guilt or responsibility?)

I think she’s a witch who decided not to go to Hogwarts – and then always regretted it.

Of course, it may be that she just fell for a wizarding friend of James’ and Lily’s – Sirius or Remus, maybe.

(Either one leads to some interesting scenarios – maybe her fear of wizards has been augmented by some guy she likes turning out to be a werewolf or a supposed murderer).

As for guilt – I bet she feels a lot of that. But it’s probably more basic – she cut Lily out of her life for ages, and then never got the chance to say goodbye – her own choice, but I bet she feels plenty guilty.

What do you think will be the after-effects of Book 5 at Hogwarts, now that Malfoy and other Death Eaters are arrested (though I’m sure they won’t stay that way)?

I think we may see a disturbing amount of sympathy for them. A lot of closet Voldemort supporters are likely to come out into the open. Since there’s a new minister for magic, there may be an election – anyone else imagine Narcissa leading a political party, a legitimate arm of the Death Eaters?

Other than that, the rest is probably obvious: people who fear Voldemort will know he’s back, and Voldemort will start looking for more supporters and try to break out his old ones.

Do you think Sirius will make an appearance, or that he really is dead? (To borrow a line from Dune, “never count anybody as dead until you’ve seen the body, and then don’t be too sure”).

I doubt Sirius is going to return from the dead any time soon. But Jo keeps hinting that those mirrors are going to come in handy, and so far as we know, Sirius took one of them with him into the spirit world. I wonder if they can communicate across the veil that way?

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Has it ever been said whether or not Harry and He Who Must Not Be Named’s wand feathers were from Fawkes?

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Yup, they are.

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Which has always lead me to wonder about Ollivander. How is it that the twin wands in the possession of archenemies comes from a Phoenix that Dumbledore keeps as a pet. Somebody set that up, and I think Ollivander either did it himself, or is in on it :dubious:

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Well in Book One Mr. Ollivander says that the phoenix that gave the feathers gave only two - one for Harry, one for Voldy. In GoF I think Dumbledore mentions that it was indeed Fawkes that gave both feathers.
On preview, what flamingbananas said.

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Yes, it’s in the last book (V).

I thought since Petunia had accepted Harry (that is, taken him in) that the “spell” that Lily placed on him was intact and that Voldemort could not hurt HP while he was in Little Whinging. Dumbledore says as much in book V.

I think that P is rabidly jealous of L and that she takes it out on Harry. Sibling rivalry goes deep and can last a lifetime. Also, to hear P talk of it, it would seem that L’s parents were quite proud of L–making the jealousy worse for P.

I charge $100/hour for all psychobabble. :slight_smile:
I think we will see more of the house elf stuff and also Malfoy will come out as a leader(?). Who will die?

And I expect Ron and Hermione to start dating.

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Well JKR did say there would be more romance in book six. And they will be sixteen, after all.

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Ginny and Harry need to get together, too.
I hate that I am working this weekend–I cannot get my pre-ordered copy until Monday (Borders says it will only hold it for 24 hours…yikes!).

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Is Petunia older or younger than Lily? My guess is that she was a witch at Hogwarts during Voldemort’s initial rise to power, but then failed out. When Lily not only made it into Hogwarts herself, but excelled, Petunia was quite jealous. Petunia obviously had some immersion in the wizarding world, if she’s terrified of Voldemort, and knows about Azkaban and the Dementors. Her explanation that she happened to hear James mention it doesn’t make any sense – why would she remember that information more than 16 years later?

I would not be at all surprised to discover that Lily’s parents were killed by Voldemort. That could definitely help explain why Petunia hates magic so much.

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I don’t exactly have a good track record with past predictions, so I’ll make a rather unimportant predicition:

Harry will be Gryffindor quidditch captain.

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That’s almost a given. Fred, George, Angelina, Katie, and Alicia will all be gone, right?

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Actually, I think one of the Chasers is in her seventh year. I just reread the entire series last week and Ginny says she’s going to try for Chaser, because Angelina and…I think Alicia, but I could be wrong, will be gone. That leaves Katie (?).

Still, it seems like my prediction actually has a pretty decent shot at coming true! Go me!

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I’m hoping they’ll develop Minerva McGonagall (sp?) a bit more. I’ve always wondered what her back-story is, is there a Mr. McGonagall, etc… We don’t know much about her other than that she’s an animagus and elderly.

And of course Dumbledore’s brother has been referred to several times but never mentioned. Either there’s a story about his death or he’s a Death Eater- or perhaps he’s strictly a red herring. (Some speculate he’s the barkeep at the Hog’s Head, but I don’t believe Rowling has confirmed.)

And most importantly, perhaps they’ll finally give the recipe for butterbeer.

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Dumbledore’s brother is the barkeep at The Hog’s Head.

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The Leaky Cauldron refers to this as a cite from Jo Rowling that the barman at The Hog’s Head is indeed Aberforth Dumbledore:
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2004/0804-ebf.htm

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Shoulda gone with Amazon.

I don’t think Aberforth is a Death Eater, but rather I think he’s just kind of a :wally .

You know, lazy, scatter-brained, that sort of thing.

I hope we learn more about Snape’s background. I think it’s obvious that he came from an abusive homelife (what we saw during the Occumency lesson).

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In the first book Rowling explains that Harry was left at Petunia’s with a note. In book five Dumbledore explains to Harry that Petunia took him in because she knows about the seal of love given to Harry from Lily’s death.

I think Petunia must know a lot about the magical world if she understood a letter like that without explaination. A lot more than one would expect from a muggle who had only minimal contact with wizards. Either that or Dumbledore spoke to her directly and explained it. But if she does know about the wizarding world, why did she let Dudley torment Harry? Surely she had an inkling that magical powers were at least partially hereditary. If Harry had a chance at being magical he might have one day fought back with Dudley and possibly injured him.

I also wonder how involved Harry’s maternal grandparents were with the wizarding world. Was Lily’s Hogwarts letter a surprise to them or did they have other prior contact with the magical world?

My prediction for book six is that we will learn a lot more about Petunia and even more about her sister and Harry’s father.