# With One Week To Go, Yet Another "Harry Potter Year 6 predictions" thread (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878 "2005-07-10T20:42:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/101 "2005-07-12T17:01:55Z")
I’m going to avoid going to Mugglenet because they have all these news items that might have possible spoilers. I don’t know because I didn’t look at the links that they provided. I don’t want to know anything about the book’s plot until I actually get it. **Shirley** , you must fake sick!! _Also hands a Skiving Snackbox over_ It’s _Harry Potter_! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/102 "2005-07-12T17:14:45Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > . > > **Shirley** , you must fake sick!! _Also hands a Skiving Snackbox over_ It’s _Harry Potter_! :::::cough::::cough:::Whhheeeze::::sniff::::: What, may I ask, is a Skiving Snackbox? ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/103 "2005-07-12T17:19:35Z")
> [@](#): > > What, may I ask, is a Skiving Snackbox? “You are going to need this.” **Hands over asbestos underwear.** ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/104 "2005-07-12T17:34:44Z")
:smack: Google is my friend. how do you dopers remember all these details? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/105 "2005-07-12T17:52:12Z")
We use a remembrall. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/106 "2005-07-12T18:16:21Z")
Btw, on romances. I think Luna starts flirting heavily with Ron and maybe something happens… leading Hermione to get super jealous (like Ron with Victor). After all, Luna’s last name is “Lovegood” (then again that leads some to think she may end up with Harry… though I don’t see it). I think Harry has to end up with Ginny, who showed in OotP that she’s every bit as strong willed as it seems Lilly Potter was (and, of course, because it gives Harry the family he always wanted in the Weasley’s). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/107 "2005-07-12T18:22:39Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > A Weasley will get killed; Bill, possibly, while trying to protect Fleur. Remember in the last book, one of the twins mentioned Bill took an office job at Gringotts to be closer to Fleur, who was also working there? You’ve got it backwards-it was Fleur who took a job with Gringotts to be closer to Bill. ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/108 "2005-07-12T19:32:44Z")
Re: Luna. Rereading #5 last night, it struck me that Luna is possibly the only character who _always_ says exactly what she’s thinking - even Hermione (no great expert in tact) will sometimes shade her words to spare feelings or smooth something over. Whatever her final role is, I expect it to be somehow related to this aspect of her personality. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/109 "2005-07-12T20:11:17Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > how do you dopers remember all these details? Many rereadings. Just don’t go with the Puking Pastilles. Don’t think Fred and George have come up with a way to swallow the antidote yet. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/110 "2005-07-12T20:21:48Z")
> [@Only Mostly Dead](#): > > Just don’t go with the Puking Pastilles. Don’t think Fred and George have come up with a way to swallow the antidote yet. What happens when you don’t have anything in your stomach left to throw up?? Urgh, that’s kind of nasty… ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/111 "2005-07-12T20:29:23Z")
> [@Only Mostly Dead](#): > > Many rereadings. > > Just don’t go with the Puking Pastilles. Don’t think Fred and George have come up with a way to swallow the antidote yet. Of course they have. Don’t you recall their demonstration in the common room with the bucket, with Lee periodically vanishing the puke? The students also used them after the twins left to provide some of the symptoms of Umbridge-itis, as I recall. No, I wouldn’t have remembered that if I hadn’t reread OotP yesterday. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/112 "2005-07-12T21:01:54Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > What happens when you don’t have anything in your stomach left to throw up?? The end result hurts. A lot. not that I’d know from experience, or anything. I never want to be that sick again. ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/113 "2005-07-12T21:10:18Z")
I have a very good memory for literature, which comes in handy because I’m a literature student. 🙂 But I do have help: [Here you’ll find every bit of information from every interview with JK Rowling, arranged by theme and paraphrased](http://www.madamscoop.org/bytheme.htm). [Here you’ll find the Harry Potter Lexicon](http://www.hp-lexicon.org/), an encycopaedia so accurate that Rowling uses it to fact-check while writing when she doesn’t have one of her books handy. The Lexicon, by the way, [has a list of everything we know so far about book 7](http://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/books/hbp/book_hbp.html), not including any accidentally-released spoilers. Most of all, however, there is [Jo’s website](http://www.jkrowling.com/). The high-graphics version is fun, but you can only link things in the [text-only version](http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/welcome.cfm). At her website, I recommend:[ul][li][The transcript of the Edinburgh Book Festival](http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/news_view.cfm?id=80), where she talked about book 7.[/li][li][Rumours about what’s happening in the books](http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/rumours.cfm) that she wishes to put to rest.[/li][li][Frequently asked questions](http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/faq.cfm?ref=aboutthebooks) about the books (this is probably the best place on her site).[/li][li]And her “extra stuff” section, which includes [things she cut out of the books](http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/extrastuff.cfm?ref=cutscenes), little-known details [about some of her characters](http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/extrastuff.cfm?ref=characters), and [random facts about her and the books](http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/extrastuff.cfm?ref=miscellaneous), including the fact that she’s a minesweeper fan :)[/ul][/li]That should keep you all busy until Saturday 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/114 "2005-07-12T21:15:51Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Of course they have. Don’t you recall their demonstration in the common room with the bucket, with Lee periodically vanishing the puke? The students also used them after the twins left to provide some of the symptoms of Umbridge-itis, as I recall. > > No, I wouldn’t have remembered that if I hadn’t reread OotP yesterday. 😉 Dang it. You’re right. I had forgotten that. It is the one they had trouble with for quite the long time in the book though, right? It’s been about 3 months since I last read OotP, and I’ve gotten rusty 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/115 "2005-07-12T22:42:38Z")
I think that they were having problems with all of their Skiving Snackboxes. The Nosebleed Nougat wouldn’t wear off, and a different one would give them boils in places they don’t normally display to the public. ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/116 "2005-07-12T23:28:07Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > You’ve got it backwards-it was Fleur who took a job with Gringotts to be closer to Bill. No, Bill was already working for Gringotts, but he was in Egypt breaking curses in the pyramids–he took an office job in London to be closer to Fleur (who was there to improve her English or some such) and the Order. Or maybe being near one or the other was just a happy coincidence, I forget. ---
**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/117 "2005-07-13T00:09:30Z")
Being near the order, and it was just happy coincidence that now he’s near Fleur. ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/118 "2005-07-13T00:15:46Z")
Thanks. After considering it more I thought that was the likelier way of things, but sadly I don’t have the book here with me. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/119 "2005-07-13T02:51:35Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > What happens when you don’t have anything in your stomach left to throw up?? > > Urgh, that’s kind of nasty… I’ve actually experienced this once at the age of 10 when I had the WORST stomach bug ever. I puked nine times. Eventually, I started puking up mucus and then just saliva. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878/120 "2005-07-13T02:55:09Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I’ve actually experienced this once at the age of 10 when I had the WORST stomach bug ever. I puked nine times. Eventually, I started puking up mucus and then just saliva. …ew. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-one-week-to-go-yet-another-harry-potter-year-6-predictions-thread-spoilers/311878.md?page=7)