Deathly Hallows predictions
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chanaleh
I gave up halfway through rereading Book 5 and skipped ahead to Book 6, which I have a hope of finishing by tomorrow night.
Plans for Friday: Shul at 6:30pm, then meander down to the Harvard Square PotterFest for a couple hours, then backtrack to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
pandemonium_bks in order to pick up my prepaid copy at midnight.
Predictions for Book 7:
Interesting:
* The reason Neville is such a gimp is that he had a heavy-duty Memory Charm placed on him -- probably orchestrated by his grandmother -- sealing off some kind of knowledge about his parents, in order to protect him.
* Fred and George have developed some kind of secret time travel application, which is how they won their Quidditch World Cup bet with Bagman.
* Dolores Umbridge is secretly a half-breed (of some unsavory sort) and that's why she "loathes part-humans".
* Dumbledore’s "defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945" (noted on the Chocolate Frog Cards as his most famous accomplishment, of which we have never heard one further word) will be explicitly related somehow to Nazi Germany and World War II. (The original opening of the Chamber of Secrets, and the flashback of Dumbledore we see in Riddle’s diary, would have taken place in 1942.)
* The Evanses were secretly a wizarding family (although with Muggle blood); Petunia is a Squib.
* We will learn something about "the caved-in passage behind the fourth-floor mirror" (which Fred and George first mention in PoA, when they give Harry the Marauder’s Map).
* The Chamber of Secrets will be important again, revealing some new and even more crucial secrets, possibly to do with the other Founders. We will learn more about the history or origins of Hogwarts Castle (a "stronghold of ancient magic"), and maybe even why Hogwarts and Hogsmeade were so named.
* The new wand Neville got at the beginning of Book 6 -- after his dad's old wand was broken at the Ministry, Ollivander sold Neville a new one and then "disappeared the next day" -- is Rowena Ravenclaw's wand, the fourth of the Founders' Relics.
* Someone will appear to die (or did appear to die) in order to be hidden from Voldemort. (Dumbledore to Malfoy on the tower, end of HBP: "He cannot kill you if you are already dead. Come over to the right side, Draco, and we can hide you more completely than you can possibly imagine.") However, it's not anyone that Voldemort personally kills (i.e., the Potters), or Dumbledore himself (mostly because of the new portrait), but must be some offscreen death. Broderick Bode?
Boring:
* None of the Horcruxes will be living creatures or people.
* The potion in the cave was itself the Horcrux. When Dumbledore drank the potion, the agony he experienced was actually reliving some experience/consciousness of Tom Riddle’s. Then he had to die in order to release/nullify the bit of soul, which is why he needed Snape to kill him.
* SNAPE IS NOT EVIL. He didn’t want to kill Dumbledore, but Dumbledore had asked/bound him to do so. This is why he could make the Unbreakable Vow with Narcissa.
* Dumbledore’s portrait will become a major ally and friend to Harry.
* We will meet the Four Founders, possibly in the Pensieve.
* Godric Gryffindor has red hair.
* Albus Dumbledore is related to or descended from Godric Gryffindor.
* The Weasleys are related to or descended from Godric Gryffindor.
* Lily Evans was related to or descended from Godric Gryffindor.
* Fawkes once belonged to Godric Gryffindor. (We already knew the Sorting Hat was originally his, along with the Sword.)
* We will learn more about the uses of some of the silver instruments in Dumbledore’s office.
* We will learn more about the other Mysteries (love, memory/consciousness, time, death) in the Department of Mysteries.
* Sirius’s falling through the veil was not the same as dying per se. (Remember, Bellatrix hit him with a red Stunner, not the green Avada Kedavra as shown in the MOVIE of OotP!)
* Mimbulus mimbletonia (or Stinksap) will turn out to have some plot significance or special powers.
* Another Metamorphmagus besides Tonks will be revealed, with important plot consequences.
* Stubby Boardman (who bears a resemblance to Sirius) was really Regulus Black, who supposedly died around the time Boardman retired from public life, 15-16 years ago.
* Cats have some kind of sentience or psychic powers we have not yet seen fully explained.
* Harry and Ginny will end up reunited and eventually marry.
* Ron and Hermione will get engaged and/or married.
* Ron will be both Head Boy and Quidditch Captain -- just as he saw himself in the Mirror of Erised back in Book 1.
Plus the ones everyone already seems to basically agree on:
* Harry will visit Godric (Gryffindor)’s Hollow, where he was born.
* Dumbledore’s brother Aberforth is the barman at the Hog’s Head.
* “RAB” of the Horcrux is Regulus Black.
* The real Horcrux locket was the "heavy locket none of them could open" in 12 Grimmauld Place.
* Snape was in love with Lily; when his betrayal led to her death, he regretted it so deeply that he quit the Voldemort side forever. (He still loathes Harry because Harry resembles James, who was his antagonist as well as his rival.)
* Harry's/Lily's green eyes have some plot significance or special powers.
* The four relics of the Founders will parallel the four Tarot suits and the four Grail Hallows (hence the book title): sword, spear/wand, chalice/cup, and dish/coin/locket.
Saturday night,tremontstshul is having a Hogwarts Havdalah Harry Potter Reading Party, 9pm-midnight. Come drink Butterbeer (two kinds: for grown-ups and for house-elves), finish reading in the Spoiler-Free space, and spill all your reactions in the Chamber of Secrets! BONUS: With your event RSVP (before sundown on Friday), email me your predictions about Book 7, and we'll give a prize to the person who submitted the most correct predictions!
Plans for Friday: Shul at 6:30pm, then meander down to the Harvard Square PotterFest for a couple hours, then backtrack to
pandemonium_bks in order to pick up my prepaid copy at midnight.Predictions for Book 7:
Interesting:
* The reason Neville is such a gimp is that he had a heavy-duty Memory Charm placed on him -- probably orchestrated by his grandmother -- sealing off some kind of knowledge about his parents, in order to protect him.
* Fred and George have developed some kind of secret time travel application, which is how they won their Quidditch World Cup bet with Bagman.
* Dolores Umbridge is secretly a half-breed (of some unsavory sort) and that's why she "loathes part-humans".
* Dumbledore’s "defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945" (noted on the Chocolate Frog Cards as his most famous accomplishment, of which we have never heard one further word) will be explicitly related somehow to Nazi Germany and World War II. (The original opening of the Chamber of Secrets, and the flashback of Dumbledore we see in Riddle’s diary, would have taken place in 1942.)
* The Evanses were secretly a wizarding family (although with Muggle blood); Petunia is a Squib.
* We will learn something about "the caved-in passage behind the fourth-floor mirror" (which Fred and George first mention in PoA, when they give Harry the Marauder’s Map).
* The Chamber of Secrets will be important again, revealing some new and even more crucial secrets, possibly to do with the other Founders. We will learn more about the history or origins of Hogwarts Castle (a "stronghold of ancient magic"), and maybe even why Hogwarts and Hogsmeade were so named.
* The new wand Neville got at the beginning of Book 6 -- after his dad's old wand was broken at the Ministry, Ollivander sold Neville a new one and then "disappeared the next day" -- is Rowena Ravenclaw's wand, the fourth of the Founders' Relics.
* Someone will appear to die (or did appear to die) in order to be hidden from Voldemort. (Dumbledore to Malfoy on the tower, end of HBP: "He cannot kill you if you are already dead. Come over to the right side, Draco, and we can hide you more completely than you can possibly imagine.") However, it's not anyone that Voldemort personally kills (i.e., the Potters), or Dumbledore himself (mostly because of the new portrait), but must be some offscreen death. Broderick Bode?
Boring:
* None of the Horcruxes will be living creatures or people.
* The potion in the cave was itself the Horcrux. When Dumbledore drank the potion, the agony he experienced was actually reliving some experience/consciousness of Tom Riddle’s. Then he had to die in order to release/nullify the bit of soul, which is why he needed Snape to kill him.
* SNAPE IS NOT EVIL. He didn’t want to kill Dumbledore, but Dumbledore had asked/bound him to do so. This is why he could make the Unbreakable Vow with Narcissa.
* Dumbledore’s portrait will become a major ally and friend to Harry.
* We will meet the Four Founders, possibly in the Pensieve.
* Godric Gryffindor has red hair.
* Albus Dumbledore is related to or descended from Godric Gryffindor.
* The Weasleys are related to or descended from Godric Gryffindor.
* Lily Evans was related to or descended from Godric Gryffindor.
* Fawkes once belonged to Godric Gryffindor. (We already knew the Sorting Hat was originally his, along with the Sword.)
* We will learn more about the uses of some of the silver instruments in Dumbledore’s office.
* We will learn more about the other Mysteries (love, memory/consciousness, time, death) in the Department of Mysteries.
* Sirius’s falling through the veil was not the same as dying per se. (Remember, Bellatrix hit him with a red Stunner, not the green Avada Kedavra as shown in the MOVIE of OotP!)
* Mimbulus mimbletonia (or Stinksap) will turn out to have some plot significance or special powers.
* Another Metamorphmagus besides Tonks will be revealed, with important plot consequences.
* Stubby Boardman (who bears a resemblance to Sirius) was really Regulus Black, who supposedly died around the time Boardman retired from public life, 15-16 years ago.
* Cats have some kind of sentience or psychic powers we have not yet seen fully explained.
* Harry and Ginny will end up reunited and eventually marry.
* Ron and Hermione will get engaged and/or married.
* Ron will be both Head Boy and Quidditch Captain -- just as he saw himself in the Mirror of Erised back in Book 1.
Plus the ones everyone already seems to basically agree on:
* Harry will visit Godric (Gryffindor)’s Hollow, where he was born.
* Dumbledore’s brother Aberforth is the barman at the Hog’s Head.
* “RAB” of the Horcrux is Regulus Black.
* The real Horcrux locket was the "heavy locket none of them could open" in 12 Grimmauld Place.
* Snape was in love with Lily; when his betrayal led to her death, he regretted it so deeply that he quit the Voldemort side forever. (He still loathes Harry because Harry resembles James, who was his antagonist as well as his rival.)
* Harry's/Lily's green eyes have some plot significance or special powers.
* The four relics of the Founders will parallel the four Tarot suits and the four Grail Hallows (hence the book title): sword, spear/wand, chalice/cup, and dish/coin/locket.
Saturday night,
tremontstshul is having a Hogwarts Havdalah Harry Potter Reading Party, 9pm-midnight. Come drink Butterbeer (two kinds: for grown-ups and for house-elves), finish reading in the Spoiler-Free space, and spill all your reactions in the Chamber of Secrets! BONUS: With your event RSVP (before sundown on Friday), email me your predictions about Book 7, and we'll give a prize to the person who submitted the most correct predictions!