DEATHLY QUESTIONS!
- Harry, because he likes Ginny so much, will not want her to be a part of any of his travelings and fights. However, his wishes will only create romantic tension between them at the beggining of the book, and of course eventually Ginny will end up fighting along side him, as the threat of her being harm will create conflict while Harry is trying to fight Voldemort.
- i found out they have a son names after harrys farther James Harry Potter
- I think Harry and Ginny will end up together but I don't think it's going to be easy to get there and won't happen until the end because Harry is too afraid for Ginny's safety to be with her until Voldemort is dead.
- I have read book 7 and he does stay with her, in the end he even marries her.
- i heard they marry and have a son called James Harry Potter
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- I guess that they hook up at Bill and Fleurs's Wedding and continue to fight together against Voldemort but fight also for their strong love and end up married and have a child or two
- Yes, he is dead, but like his predecessors, he'll be able to communicate via his painting in his old office.
- I agree both that Dumbledore really is dead and that we have not heard the last of him. I think we will hear from his portrait in the office and possibly see more of him via his memories and the pensieve.
- Dumbledore always told Voldemort that there were fates worse than death...I don't think his portrait will be any help, because I don't think portraits are able to think for themselves. They can obey and converse, but can they draw conclusions? Doubtful. That being said, we certainly haven't seen the last of Dumbledore. There is a reason Snape killed him, I just know it...
- The former headmaster of the Black family, (the one Dumbledore used to communicate with Grimald Place) thought for himself. He went on and on about how children should be made to mind, etc.
- I also noticed in the fleeing glimpse of the barman at the Hog's Head, that he had a striking resemblance to Dumbledore, just grumpier. Is he a relative of Dumbedore's, such as his brother?
- I think Jo has made this very clear. I was in New York last summer when she told the audience that Dumbledore would not be "doing a Gandalf," and that he was indeed dead.
- This doesn't quite fit under here but I'll say it anyway: I think Dumbledore was the heir of Gryffindor. It's just one of those things I have a feeling about. If anyway has any thoughts on it, please elaborate.
- Yes, but in the fight between Harry and Tom Marvolo Riddle, Dumbledore appears in a vision to Harry. Dumbledore's portrait speaks to Harry about the Horcruxes in the first few chapters.
Is Snape a good guy or a bad guy?
- Good guy. Don't know why i think that, just have a feeling.
- I think Snape is actually good and will end up sacrificing himself for Harry in the end. The reason I believe his is because Dumbledore had 100% complete faith and trust in him and McGonagall said she always believed that Dumbledore knew something about him that the rest didn't that made him feel the way he did. I also believe that if Snape were really bad he would have killed Harry at the end of the last book. I don't believe that Voldemort cares how Harry dies at this point, just that he's dead. Voldemort had his shot at Harry and blew it.
- Snape is good. Dumbledore had his reasons for trusting Snape...just because he was pleading at the end of 6 doesn't mean he was pleading for his life...Dumbledore had a plan, and Snape, if no one else, knows what that plan is.
- I think it would be interesting to get the answers to the questions we want to know (i.e Why did Dumbledore trust Snape?) but maybe we WON'T find out if Snape is good or evil. Once we find out a definitive answer, won't it take away from some of intrigue and complexity of Snape? I truly don't believe that he is 100% on either side, I think it would be better if his loyalties remained questionable. I mean, what else will we have to discuss after Dealthy Hallows comes out?
- Is Snape good or evil is the wrong question; he is both. To paraphrase: "The world is not divided into good guys and Death Eaters." Snape's ultimate aim is to destroy Lord Voldemort. Here is my theory: Originally, in the days of Lord Voldemort's initial rise to power, Snape joined the death eaters because of his incredible fascination with the dark arts, with the possibility of developing extraordinary powers and probing extraordinary mysteries with the powers of mind and creativity. (As a student, Snape was a brilliant potion maker and magician whose delight was to invent and perfect magical techniques; his forays into the dark arts have been almost abstract and academic, and as an adult he has chosen the career of teacher). Singularly unlike other Death Eaters, Snape was NOT motivated to become a death eater because of a family club (e.g. all the pureblood families bound into one exclusive family tree), because of pureblood snobbery or muggle antipathy (e.g. his self-given nickname the Half-Blood Prince is almost a mockery of pureblood mania; an f-you), because of social motivations (always a loner since adolescence), or because -- and this is important-- because of a desire for power or a desire to do others harm. At one point, Snape undoubtedly admired Voldemort because of his prowess as a wizard and unmatched magical skill, his outlaw status among the wizard world. He would have loved to become a Death Eater in the days when he was one of the elite members of a Dark Arts club, before Voldemort showed his true colors. Snape's hatred in his school days of James Potter shows that he detests popular showoffs whose only use of magics is to gain attention, fame, admiration of mediocre etc. Listen up! As Voldemort rose in power, his personality became dominated by precisely these qualities that Snape hated so much in James Potter. Voldemort's brand of evil was simple-minded: kill, torture, gain power and fame, make others live in fear. His followers, far from being permitted to seek dark powers and become wizards of greater caliber, were expected to do not much more sophisticated magic then use the three Unforgivable Curses against non-followers. Snape is a proud loner and a cold intellectual, what would be the appeal to him of simple destruction for its own sake?-Nothing. So why did he rejoin the Order of the Pheonix and Dumbledore? As a double agent, Snape still was allowed to keep his proximity to the cherished Dark Arts. In book 6, Snape describes the Dark Arts as a many-headed beast that grows a new head the moment you decapitate it; fighting it requires constant inventiveness. Snape's intellectual thirst to engage with the dark arts would have been equally satisfied on either side of the fight. Moreover, Dumbledore could give Snape something that Voldemort never could: Independence. Dumbledore demanded loyalty but "ruled" by trust, not coercion; he never relegated Snape to a role as obsequious, mindless follower whose great talents were only used for the purpose of Crucio and Imperio. Working for the order provided a challenging role in which he could use his magical skills to their most sophisticated extent: Legilimency, Occlumency etc. Dumbledore, however, did require Snape to make one sacrifice to his independence. Dumbledore's iron-clad reason for trusting Snape after coming over from the dark side was that Snape MADE AN UNBREAKABLE VOW TO ALWAYS PROTECT HARRY. And he did: Snape has saved Harry's life multiple times (e.g. saved him in book 1 when Quirrell tried to throw him off the broom; attempted to save him in book 3 when he followed Harry into the whomping willow and Shreiking Shack; tried to teach him Occlumency in book 5; tried to teach Harry the lesson of controlling his mind and emotions even after fleeing the castle grounds after killing Dumbledore in book 6). The million dollar question, then, is did Snape murder Dumbledore because of following orders or because of his own will? Regardless of the answer to this question, I believe that Snape's goal is bring down Voldemort. Here's my idea: Dumbledore knew that his knowledge of the horcruxes was exhausted; he had destroyed the only two whose whereabouts he had knowledge of, and there were no more people to gain memories from. It now remained for someone else with intimate access to and knowledge of Voldemort to find out about the whereabouts of the remaining Horcruxes (e.g. something belonging to Ravenclaw or Griffendor, the cup) and destroy them. Dumbledore did not reveal his knowledge of the Horcruxes to Harry because he intended him to find and destroy them all but rather because he needed to know the sequence of events that would have to occur before Harry deals Voldemort (and possibly Nagini) the death blow. (Harry is intellectually incapable of succeeding on this type of mission destroy-the-Horcrux; all he can do is act the hero to save himself and others in a tight spot, or potentially duel against Death Eaters and learn to use Avada Kedavra). Snape was the sole other person who Dumbledore told about the Horcruxes, and he expects Snape to continue the work of finding and destroying them. Snape needed to have killed Dumbledore in order to gain Voldemort's respect and get close enough to be in a position to help Harry in the final fatal encounter when one must die.
- Snape is absolutely evil. He is a bully. And from now on his last name shall be BullCrap, not Snape. Oh my god - snappi' my fingers. Snape is horrible sorcerer with tongue sticking out!
- I think Snape is good, and I think the reason Dumbledore allowed him to teach was because Snape made the Unbreakeable Vow, to protect EVERY student at Hogwarts... This is why he agreed to to protect Draco, and the reason his hand twitched was because the new unbreakable vow (protect Draco)had a slight reaction with the old one (protect every student) Dumbledor knew this, and this knowledge was why he asked Snape to "please" kill him.... It was to protect Draco, and also to allow Snape to become a super spy.
- Snape is a Death Eater and always has been. He killed Dumbledore because of the Unbreakable Vow between Narcissa and himself. He tries to kill Harry in the end, administers the Draught of Living Death to Harry, and is sentenced to a lifetime in Azkaban for it.
- Its the wrog queston to ask what you shold ask is will he do the wrigt thing and i think he will.
- I think the real question is what made Dumbledore trust Snape in the first place. I think this will be answered in book 7 and it will have something to do with Harry's mother, Lily. I suspect Snape's reversal from Death-Eater to Dumbledore's trusted spy revolves around hidden feelings he had for Lily. We learned that when he was in school, James and his friends teased Snape but at least once, Lily tried to defend him. Snape's reponse to her was nasty, but I think it was out of jealousy rather than hatred. Maybe when he learned Voldemort killed her, he realized he had chosent he wrong side and sought out Dumbledore to repent. He has always tried to save/teach Harry despite his hatred of James. Perhaps due to a love for Lily???
Rowling has allowed that at least two major characters will die -- state your case for who you think is marked for death.
- I believe either Harry, Ron or Hermione will definitely die. While I don't want either of them to, I could see Ron or Hermione's death being the last straw that would give Harry the strength and/or anger to kill Voldemort.
- Snape- will prob sacrifice his life for Harry's. Even though he is good people want repentence for Dumbledore's death.
- Im 90% sure Ron will die but i hope he dosnt cos i like him and ginny will die aswell
- Fred/George/Percy/Neville- someone close to Harry but not one of the main elements of the Harry Potter Universe (i.e. Hermoine, Ron, Ginny, etc)
- I don't have any idea who is going to die. I just hope that it's not Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Hagrid, or any of the Weasley's (with the possible exception of that prat Percy).
- I think Percy will sacrafice himself for some one from his family or Harry, thus bringing him back into the good graces of his family.
- I think Draco will sacrafice himself for the good of the Order.
- Voldemort dies along with Percy Weasley. Harry kills Voldemort and Percy died protecting the Order from discovery by Snape.
- What about Draco and his family? When you defy Lord Voldemort, you're pretty much as good as dead.
- Snape, Harry, Voldemort, various members of the Order (Lupin, anyone?), possibly a Professor or two (McGonagall comes to mind...) I doubt it will be Ron and Hermione...
- MAJOR THEORY ALERT - I think that Harry is a horcrux. Possibly the 6th splitting of Voldemort's soul, with the dark lord himself being the last. Might explain why harry has such a connection to him, speaks with snakes and has a sibling wand. This would mean Harry would sacrifice himself in a massive attempt to kill himself and Voldemort as well
- I saw on tv that a hacker got into J.K.Rowlings computer and said that either ron or hermoine is gonna die in the 7th book or something.
- Neville Longbottom. Neville has grown increasingly courageous and reckless during conflicts with death eaters (e.g. Battle in the the Department of Mysteries, book 5; Battle below the Astronomy Tower, book 6). He is also embattled and desirous of seeking revenge against Bellatrix Lestrange for his parents' death. For all his well meaning, Neville fumbles and barely survives in dangerous situations, sending curses bouncing in the wrong directions etc. Prediction: he will go after Bellatrix Lestrange and come off the worse for it. Bellatrix will kill Neville or use the Cruciatus curse to addle his brains. Bellatrix having destroyed both Sirius and Neville, Harry will have the rage to use his first successful Unforgivable Curse on Bellatrix. Harry needs to practice using these curses, growing dark and dangerous, and losing his goodness to some extent, in order to eventually be able to kill Voldemort. Harry will use Crucio against Bellatrix, as he tried to do unsuccesfully in book 5, or he will kill her with Avada Kedavra.
- I think Harry is likely the 7th Horcrux and will have to kill himself to save the world. I am also going to guess Neville in his trying to avenge his parents against Bellatrix- he's been developing as a character, but he's magic skills just don't match his courage. Also potentials- someone from the Weasley family (I think either Ron or Ginny- remember Mrs.Weasley's boggart), members of the Order of the Phoenix
- One weasley and Dolers Umbrige will Die i think its Pearcy
- Snape will die for the good guys (He must make the ultimate sacrifice so Harry knows what side he is truly on). I also believe Mr. Weasley will die- one of the weasley's has to die, and I don't think Ron or Ginny is going anywhere. His death was also forshadowed in the 5th. I think Hagrid might be a goner as well, he's served his purpose.
What is Draco's fate?
- I don't think Draco Malfoy's first name was chosen at random. Draco appears to usually be translated as "dragon" in Rowling's world, such as in the Hogwart's motto. ("Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus," meaning "Never tickle a sleeping dragon." The Book 7 cover art (back cover, shown on some websites) shows Harry, Ron, and Hermione riding on the back of a dragon. If the dragon isn't Norbert, then it could very well be Draco, transfigured by the Order to hide him from Voldemort.
- In response to the comment above: I think that's a really interesting idea, although I do think it is more likely Norbert. If it were Draco, wouldn't it be platinum blonde or something? :P
- Narcissa Black, who only cares for her family and is willing to act rashly and defy Lord Voldemort to insure their protection (e.g. Half-Blood Prince, Spinner's End chapter) will do an action that provokes Lord Voldemort to order her death. Draco is a mama's boy and a papa's boy. With his mother killed and his father in prison, Draco will have a moral dilemna and a personal crisis that causes him to come back to the Order of the Pheonix for protection, if not out of a desire to become good. He will have some role to play cooperating with Harry and the gang.
- Narcissa is killed by Fenrir Greyback, who also kills Bellatrix Lestrange (she went crazy when Greyback killed Narcissa). Draco lives with his aunt and uncle, Tonks' parents.
Will any character come back from the dead (Sirius Black, anyone?)
- Hmm, I always wondered if they would pick up the confusion of Sirius' death in a future book, we never did figure out what was behind the veil.
- I don't think anyone is going to return from the dead. I think that option was pretty much put to rest at the end of Order of the Phoenix.
- Never (I believe) have we seen someone "come back from the dead", except in ghost form, so how could Sirius be revived? We also know that he is 100% dead, because his possesions passed on to Harry. I think that he will definitely reappear, I've heard something about the two way mirrors coming back, but if I remember right Harry broke his...
- I doubt we've seen the last of Sirius, but I also doubt that he will come back as a ghost. The truth of the veil hasn't been revealed yet...That being said, there aren't too many options. Something tells me the mirror has something to do with it...
- From what they showed in the fifth movie, it seems Sirius is definitely dead. This was something I was always unsure of when I read it in the books, but when you see how they do it in the movie it seems pretty clear the Sirius is killed and then falls through the veil. I don't think Jo would have let them film it that way if that wasn't the case.
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Noone is brought back to life, but Harry sees Dumbledore, Tonks and Moony, Sirius, and his mum and dad in "the locked room" at the Department of Mysteries. He gets in there after his duel with Riddle - The veil might mean the decased person that fell throuh will come back if some one is in despert need.
- You guys are stupid. They did come back ...... However, buy the Ressurection Stone. (Lupin, Black, James, and Lily came back) But they where only visible to Harry the Hero, and invisible to anyone else.
What do you think Harry is reaching for on the book jacket?
- A horcrux? the final horcrux? i dont know
- No clue. Looks like he's saying "Accio".
- Huh? You can read non-moving lips? lol jk Hmm...the last Horcrux is a likely possibility, or he could be raising his hands in triumph...
- The last horcrux is Voldemort himself.
- A snitch, which Hermoine, Ron, and Ginny, throw to him when he kills Voldemort, this allows him to live through the battle, HE MADE HIS OWN HORCRUX.
- Yes, because if Rowling decides to kill Harry, she would be killing a boy who never really had much of any happiness and that just seems harsh and heartless.
- Yes, barely.
- Ok im gona sound stupid But harry will make a HORCRUX.in the form of a snich kill him self cos hes the last one but survive because of his HORCRUX the snich
- I realize that a lot of readers would have an aversion to Harry dying. I would be immensely sad if he did die in the final battle, but I would understand. Harry's ability to love is the key. There are several parallels to the story of Christ in the Harry Potter series, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Harry sacrifice himself to finish Lord Voldemort...
- I am certain that Harry will come out alive in the end. First of all, the final battle with Voldemort has to be something clever and unexpected. We know from GoF that they cannot duel properly. I know (mostly because I hope so much) that Harry will win. It would be a horrible message if evil triumphed over good. These are still children's books we're talking about. Quite a few people have theorized that Harry will have to sacrifice himself because he is a Horcrux, which must be destroyed in order to kill Voldemort. But I highly doubt that will happen. It would be a dangerous (and frankly stupid) move on Harry's part to kill himself. I think this because destroying the horcrux doesn't guarantee that Voldemort will die. What if Voldy figures out that Harry is a horcrux and that he is dead (thus losing his last horcrux)? Harry would have to know for CERTAIN that someone would kill Voldemort after he died. But what if that person failed? That gives Voldemort time to make more horcruxes, and that means he basically wins. And the world falls into chaos. Horrible ending right? If Harry does consider suicide, I hope Hermione talks him out of it, because no good would come out of it. I suppose that maybe Harry could destroy Voldemort himself (his body), as happened at Godric's Hollow, and THEN kill himself. I'm not even sure if that would work, but it doesn't matter because I highy doubt it's going to happen. Harry will destroy all the horcruxes, including the one in himself (without dying), and then battle it out with Voldemort. He will come out on top, with the help of Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, Luna, Snape, and Peter Pettigrew. The end!
- Yes, but he is in a coma for many months.
How will Peter Pettigrew repay his life debt to Harry?
- I think Peter will sacrifice himself/help Harry in some way in the final battle against Voldemort. If Harry really is a horcrux, maybe Peter will be able to tell him how to destroy it without dying?
- I don't know that Peter Pettigrew will repay his life debt to Harry. He is what he is and that's a rat.
- Might know where a Horcrux is. That's about all I can think of...it can't be anything too dramatic, Wormtail's too minor a character.
- Peter Petigrew will use his silver hand to destroy a Horcrux. The silver hand, forged by Voldemort, will be invulnerable and strong. This makes a nice contrast to the fate of Dumbledore's hand, which withered and died when he destroyed Slytherin's ring. To obtain or to destroy a Horcrux requires a human sacrifice (e.g. Dumbledore's drinking of the potion in the cave after getting the locket nearly killed him). Furthermore, right now, Petigrew is in Snape's service. Assuming (as I do) that Snape's aim is to destroy Voldemort, Snape will use Pettigrew's hand to his advantage when Snape attempts to destroy at least one Horcrux. Pettrigrew may be used in this way, and repay his life debt, unwittingly and unsuspectingly.
- Pettigrew does not really repay Harry, but when Harry visits Godric Hallows, Pettigrew tells him the truth, that Harry is a Horcrux.
Who is R.A.B.?
- I believe it is Regulus Black, Sirius' brother. They made mention of the fact that he was a DeathEater who didn't survive very long once he left Voldemort's side. I believe that he is the one that took the locket horcrux and left the fake it it's place. He was an insider who left, and he says in the message that he knows he is going to die.
- Regulus seems to be the common answer, and it makes the most sense. Rowling herself sounds cagey about it, but I think we can infer that we've hit the nail on the head. My question is, did Regulus get to any other Horcruxes, and what did he do with the real locket, anyway?
- R. A. B. is Regulus Black, Sirius' brother. I think that Regulus hid the locket it somewhere where he knew Sirius would find it so that instead of Regulus beating Voldemort Siriuswould doit for him. Kreacher probably held that information so he knows where it is so he can help his true Master to find it. That is probably why J. K. Rowling told the movie direct that if he left Kreacher out they would regret it in later movies. I can't think of anything else that Kreacher would be useful to.
- I believe that the real locket is at Sirius' house. Well I guess it's Harry's house house now... But remember in the Order of the Pheonix when they were cleaning the house up and they found that locket that wouldn't open... That is the real locket...
- My initial reaction to reading R.A.B. was definitely Regulus. But now, it just seems so obvious that I hope the R.A.B. is somebody else. Plus, the way Sirius described Regulus in the 5th book is somebody who wasn't important enough for Voldemort to kill him, I doubt that Regulus had the intelligence or the gumption of finding the horcrux and destroying it.
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