I’ve seen that link before, but it’s not been mentioned yet in this thread. I’m a full supporter of the theory that McGonagall is eeeevil. It would fit so well in with JK’s style of misdirection.
I’ve posted these before, but here they are again. I guess they may be more like wishful thinking than likely predictions.
I’d love to see Hermione really cut loose with the magic. She’s the cleverest witch of her generation, and I’m sure she knows some spells none of us have seen used. I see a moment when all the good guys are battling Voldemort’s forces. The trio gets separated from everyone else (most likely, they have something they need to do, and they can’t waste time fighting right then). A group of Death Eaters follows them and confronts them. Our girl raises her wand, and a dozen Dark Wizards wet their robes. I’m thinking calling up a storm and several lightning bolts strike. Or maybe summoning a giant elemental. Or throwing a proper fireball (the tactical nuke of Dungeons & Dragons–25d6). Whatever, I want her to do something that no one would expect to see from anyone but Voldemort or Dumbledore.
At some point, I see someone or a group of someones cornered by Belatrix Lestrange. She menaces them with dark magicks. From somewhere, you hear someone shout, “Wingardium Leviosa!” The evil witch begins to bounce from floor, to ceiling, to walls, and so on, much like a superball thrown in a small room by Randy Johnson. Neville Longbottom is standing there waving his wand like he was conducting the 1812 Overture.
Voldemort will not be killed. Dumbledore says several times (once to the Dark Lord himself) that Voldemort doesn’t realize there are things worse than death. He’s going to learn that lesson, in some fairly grim way.
Pffftt…your all wrong. Snape is certainly on the good guy side, given the evidence presented in this thread thats certain. Why did Snape kill Dumbledore then? Obviously the only answer can be … Dumbledore was the evil one, he was working for Voldemort all along!
That tingling sensation you feel behind your eyeballs right now, thats what it feels like when I completely BLOW YOUR MIND!!!
…and J.K.R. has proven to be exceptionally so. With that in mind, here are my mostly baseless theories about what happens in Book 7…
Most of these theories are based on the following premises: First, J.K.R. is an extraordinary writer that excels at giving unexpected twists to familiar themes. Second, there is no such thing as a minor character in her books, and that will prove especially so in Book 7. Finally, the overarching theme of the series is the relationship between children and their parents (and parental figures) and the coming-of-age that results.
Anyway, I’ve got a couple of dozen predictions, but here are my Top 10.
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Snape is NOT going to die. Neither is Harry. In the end, the two of them are going to have to reconcile their differences and move on with their lives. The fact that many people believe that Snape will die is the proof that he won’t: J.K.R. won’t take the obvious out, even though it would still have an emotional impact. The greater impact will be from how she shows that people can come to terms with others that they (wrongly) hated.
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Mr. and Mrs. Weasley are both going to die. Remember how I said that the main theme of the series is the relationship between children and their parents? Sucks to be the Weasleys, because they are Harry’s surrogate parents. I’d worry about the Dursleys, but I don’t think Harry is going to have the satisfaction of seeing them dead, even if there is more to Aunt Petunia than meets the eye. Anyways, the death of the Weasleys is going to be the turning point of the book. Absolutely everyone, both good and bad, is connected to them in one way or another, so their death will have a huge emotional impact. Who, what, where, when, why, how? More on that to come…
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Voldemort and several Death Eaters, at the Weasleys home, close to Halloween (before or after I don’t know, probably before), because of Mr. Weasley’s work at the Ministry and the fact that he and Mrs. Weasley are in the Order, using the Killing Curse.
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The Weasley’s death will be like Harry losing his parents all over again: it will devastate him. It will also enrage him, bring together both the established good guys and a few that are in the gray area between good and bad, and ultimately cause Voldemort’s downfall.
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Percy comes back to the fold following the death of his parents, and his position inside the Ministry will prove key. Fred, George, Bill, Charlie, Percy, Ron and Ginny will all make Voldemort regret that he ever messed with the Weasleys.
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Neville’s interest in Herbology will help him cure his insane parents, who will prove to have a key piece of information (why else were they tortured but let to live?) Neville will prove to be a courageous fighter. Unfortunately, I think he’s going to die, probably to fulfill the prophesy in some way. That may be what Dumbledore’s (and Voldemort’s) mistake was: they don’t think that Neville is linked to the prophesy anymore, but he is. Harry will regret not realizing this.
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Greyback is going to die, without a doubt. Lupin and Bill will see to that, perhaps with help from Peter Pettigrew’s silver hand. Whether or not Wormtail is still attached to said hand is another question altogether… my guess is no. Wormtail is most likely going to die… he might get some redemption, but he’s toast.
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Speaking of toast, the Dementors are going to be cannon fodder. Pretty obvious, actually. They might as well be giant alien bugs or killer robots: everyone is going to cheer when they are destroyed.
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Hagrid’s most important duty will be bringing the giants in on the side of the good guys. Ginny, Tonks, and several of the other ladies will be important as fighters, but even more important is that they will keep their men from losing their sanity (Bill & Lupin) or giving in to the worst parts of themselves (especially Harry).
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Voldemort isn’t going to be killed. He’ll wish he had, though. His curse (which Harry might or might not share) is that he is going to lose all of his magical powers. Using Harry’s blood to reform his body will be part of the reason for this.
Anyways, those are my top 10 WAG’s. While I’m at it, here are three more completely crazy ones…
11. If there is a traitor, it’s going to be Professor Sprout (or an impersonator). No reason other than a vague suspicion and that sometimes a sprout comes from a bad seed.
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The Mirror of Ersid is going to be a portal through which Harry can contact the dead on Halloween.
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Harry, Draco, Neville, and Ron are four different prototypes of boys coming to age: Good kid/No Parents/good substitutes, Bad kid/Bad parents, Good kid/absent parents/ok substitute, and Good kid/good parents, tragically taken away. What J.K.R. has done with each of these four, and all of the others, is incredible. For all the spells and potions and artifacts, the characters that she created are the most magical part of the series.
IMHO Colin Creevey’s being set up for this.
In GOF ( movie, not sure about book) in the introduction to teaching about the 3 Unforgivable Curses, Mad Mentions to Ron’s mentioning the Cruciatus(?) ,
" You’re father would know something about that…gave the ministry some trouble back then." or words to that effect.
That line has stuck with me.
I predict we will see Delores Crockburn from the 1st book (inside the Leakey Cauldron) again.
I took it to mean that a key scene occurs in Gringott’s, and that the house elves (or Dobby at least) come to the rescue against the goblins. It may be important that Harry made Dobby promise not to save his life anymore.
My current wild-ass theory is that Ginny is pregnant with Harry’s child (remember that part at the end of HPatHBP where Harry remembers a “golden afternoon by the lake with Ginny”?). Thus Harry and Ginny will die saving the child (just like James and Lilly), giving Harry’s son a scar defeating Voldemort. Harry’s scar is the Horcrux. (There are seven Horcruxes, not six.) This will happen, of course, on Halloween, when Harry’s parents died.
Mrs. Weasley dies saving Percy from the attack of his werewolf brother, which brings Percy back to the fold. Mr. Weasly dies in a crash of the flying car. Hermione takes a job teaching Transfigurations, replacing McGonigall.
And whatever really happens in the last book, I will pretend I knew it all along. 
Dang, another week to go before I can get down to Borders at midnight and wait in line for the CDs with Jim Dale.
I can’t wait!
Regards,
Shodan
She pretty much came out and said it on the Jonathan Ross show on British TV the other week. He asked “Would you consider writing more about Harry in the future?” She replied with a smile, “Well, Harry’s story… er, comes to a pretty definite conclusion in this book, so I don’t think I’ll be writing any more about him.” Of course, she could have been bluffing, but if so she’s a pretty good actress as she made it seem like she nearly let the cat out of the bag.
It was the Imperius, not the Cruciatus.
Bad Shodan! No more fanfic for you!
Like a few others have theorized, I too came to the conclusion after the sixth book that although Harry won’t die, he will lose his powers in the end after Voldemort’s defeat. He will essentially become a squib. For some reason I can’t really describe, I don’t think Harry is a character that an author would kill off. I have no problems with protagonists getting it in the end, but the way the books were written, I think it just wouldn’t fit for Harry to die. I haven’t had any problems with any of the deaths so far. They all served their purposes. The prophecy also doesn’t mention anything about either one dying. It just says they can’t “live while the other survives.” Survival can mean many things. Clearly, Voldemort up until GoF was doing nothing but surviving. At the same time, Harry’s life has been marked (pun intended) by the scar he bears and what caused it. Neither of them truly live life in the way they want to. I predict both will lose their wizarding powers in the final showdown, and while I can see Voldemort possibly dying, a fate worse than death for him would to become the very thing its implied he hates most: a mortal muggle who will waste away of old age. Harry, while no doubt finding disappointment in his loss of powers, will realize that magic has caused most of the troubles in his life, and will find some relief in that he no longer has to live up to anyone’s expectations and can just be normal for the first time in his life. Besides, he has a handful of close friends and parental-type figures who have more than proven their devotion to him, and many more associates who have played no minor role in his life. He’ll realize that his destiny is fully his own to determine. No more prophecies; no more expectations.
Alternately, there’s a small chance that he keeps his powers but willingly leaves the wizarding world for the same reasons I mentioned above. I find this unlikely, but I’m certain that the book will end with Harry never picking up a wand again for whatever reason.
I also find the theory about four of the horcruxes representing suits in a tarot deck intriguing. It’s something I wouldn’t have thought of. I’m just curious as to when Riddle would have created the horacrux in the sword and how it ended up back in Dumbledore’s posession.
Oh, and Snape is on the side of good and Dumbledore is dead.
I don’t think Griffindor’s sword could possibly have been a Horcrux without Dumbledore knowing it . . . but I do like the idea of the four founder’s artifacts each corresponding to a tarot suit. Swords, wands, cups and pentacles (amulets) . . . we already know about Slytherin’s locket and Hufflepuff’s cup, so that would suggest that the mystery Horcrux is Ravenclaw’s wand. Which (assuming Dumbledore is right about the others) would mean the six Horcruxes are:
Tom Riddle’s diary
Marvolo Gaunt’s ring
Slytherin’s locket
Hufflepuff’s cup
Ravenclaw’s wand
the snake Nagini
Also I’m convinced that R.A.B. is Regulus Black, and I’m guessing the clue to the locket’s whereabouts (if not the locket itself) is in number 12 Grimmauld place. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the locket had been there, but was sold by Mondungus Fletcher.
As far as other predictions go, I don’t think Harry, Ron, or Hermione will die. I’m operating on the theory that J. K. Rowling wants to give us a happy ending, and I think killing any of the big three would make that impossible. In fact, I’m guessing Ginny, Fred and George survive as well – killing any of them would be needlessly cruel. The older Weasleys I’m not so sure about, but if Percy survives then I think he will reconcile with his parents. I take the prophecy literally, so that means Voldemort will die if Harry lives. I think Snape will sacrifice himself, proving he’s on the right side in the end. I’d bet on Wormtail dying too, but not until he repays his life debt to Harry. If someone close to Harry dies, I’d guess either Hagrid or Lupin, probably Lupin. I just have a feeling all the Marauders will be gone at the end of the book.
I’m guessing Harry eventually becomes an auror or will be well on his way to doing so. I also think Ron and Hermione will end up together, and so will Harry and Ginny. If I remember right, Rowling hinted that one of the students would become a teacher; I’m guessing Neville takes over teaching herbology. She also said someone would perform magic late in life, but denied that it was Aunt Petunia, so I’m guessing Filtch.
The biggest mysteries to me are: Why is it significant that Harry has his mothers eyes? (Rowling has said it is.) Why did Rowling say (in an interview) that there’s more to Aunt Petunia than meets the eye? Why did Dumbledore have a “gleam of triumph” in his eyes when he heard that Voldemort had restored himself with Harry’s blood? I don’t have satisfying answers to any of these.
One somewhat out there theory I’ve read and kind of like is that Dumbledore is related to the Weasley’s, and that all of them are descended from Godric Griffindor.
I think it is significant for something that happened in Half Blood Prince. Harry is trying again to convince Slughorn to give him his memory of a conversation with Voldemort, under the influence of the luck-bringing potion; Slughorn is convinced after looking into Harry’s eyes and commenting how they look extraordinarily like his mother’s.
If that is true, then Harry having his mother’s eyes should not be influential in the story anymore - after all, unless new characters that knew Lily Potter pop up, we already know all of those that did (and are significant to the story) and already know much of what they knew. What do you think?
I am still holding out to my view for the last paragraph of the book: Harry in a bed in St Mungo’s hospital, in vegetative state, with Ginny and others saying their farewells to and praising him, and Ginny caressing his forehead, feeling under her fingers the rough skin of the scar.
I forgot to mention one thing that hasn’t been mentioned in this thread (as far as I’ve seen). Kreacher was going to be left out of the OotP movie originally, but Rowling intervened and said that he absolutely had to be in it due to events in the seventh book. I think this lends support to the idea that Kreacher secreted away the locket horcrux.
And every time I hear about Harry having Lily’s eyes, I can’t help but think of the musical of The Secret Garden. And to take it into the realm of odd coincidence or possibly homage, the Lily in that story was loved by one man (the protagonists uncle, Lily being the biological aunt), and desired by another (the brother of the uncle). James/Severus connection, perhaps? (I really don’t have an opinion one way or the other about whether or not Severus was in love with Lily.)
One more thought I brought up in another thread: Harry will have to get Peter Pettigrew to tell him where his parents were killed, because the Fidelius Charm is still in effect and Peter’s the Secret-Keeper. This Peter will do it thinking he’s paying his life-debt, but something will perhaps occur that adds to the debt instead of clearing it.
Of course, the points mentioned in this thread about how freely the location of the Potter’s home in Godric’s Hollow is bandied about may shoot down this notion.
I may be way off base here, but a thought occured to me. Wouldn’t it depend on what was said in setting up the Fidelius charm? Meaning, was it worded so as to only shield Lily and James or did the wording of the bond cover Harry as well? There had been the question of how did they know where to find Harry, but if the charm didn’t cover that then perhaps Dumbledore had some sort of finding spell on Harry since they knew he was a likely candidate for the prophecy.
Just rambling here…I’m probably forgetting something.
I read a theory here that it Kreacher who went with Regulus to get the locket horcrux(remember, Voldemort designed things so that only one adult wizard could get to the cauldron containing the locket, but it would take two people to get the locket out of the cauldron. Harry was able to accompany Dumbledore because he was underage( IIRC, Dumbledore’s exact words were that Voldemort wouldn’t consider an underage wizard a threat). Similarly, Voldemort never would have considered a house elf a threat, either.
I’ve heard this bit about Neville before and quite liked the idea. It just occured to me, however, that in order for Neville to teach herbology, Professor Sprout would have to leave. I suppose there are a number of circumstances in which that might happen, i.e. Sprout dies or is a traitor.
Some other possibilities:
- Harry, assuming he doesn’t lose or relinquish his wizarding abilities, could teach DADA. He’s imminently qualified. I could definitely see him as an auror as well.
- Hermione is probably capable of instructing any class in the school. If McGonagall gives up transfiguration because of her duties as Headmistress, Hermione makes sense to fill in. She always had the easiest time. Secondarily, bear in mind that Dumbledore was the transfiguration instructor before moving up to Headmaster. It would appear the road to path to Headmaster runs through transfiguration. Hermione might make a capable Headmistress. Thirdly, if McGonagall is a turncoat, the position will still be vacant.
- I have no idea about Ron. He doesn’t stand out in any subject. I have no idea what kind of career he’ll have after Hogwarts. Probably try to make a pro quidditch team. Hi, Opal.
Yes, he will be qualified soon…
Or… When I read your post, I just had a big flashback to the beginning of “Once Upon A Time in the West” - a large family of red-headed people preparing a wedding feast in front of their house, only to be massacred by a group of disguised gunmen. Will Bill and Fleur’s wedding turn into a spaghetti-western type bloodbath? :eek: