Ten Book Seven Predictions
Potter fandom’s been a bit quiet lately so I though I would chuck out there my ideas about what will happen in the seventh book. Some of these theories feed into each other, others are self contained. Some I think are a real possibility. Others I think would just be awesome.
Ten Book Seven Theories and Predictions
1. We’re going to be seeing a lot of the Blacks
Yes, Sirius is dead. All evidence point to Regulus being dead. But the impression I got from Mrs. Black’s portrait was that the Blacks were more of a matriarchy so while the name is down, that’s not going to stop the family from having a large impact.
Why? We have too much information about them and we have too many players for them to not play a huge part. From the introduction of Sirius, we have slowly been learning more and more about the Black family, from the family home to new members being introduced, and I don’t think we are being given this information for no reason. Heck, the family House-Elf had a minor but pivotal role in OotP. One could point out that the Black family is there to be destroyed, however we have had the pureblood family destroys itself family already: the Crouchs.
As for the players, we have Narcissa, Bellatrix, Tonks and Draco who have appeared in canon and Andromeda is out there for potential of introduction. There is the good chance that Regulus is going to appear in the seventh book. And don’t forget Kreacher.
2. McGonagall will kick arse.
McG is a transfiguration teacher. Remember that episode of The Simpsons when Harry Potter was spoofed? Bart screwed up transfiguring a frog into a prince and created a pathetic frog-like creature that could only vomit and plead for its death. I bet you McG could do that to an opponent if she so wanted to.
Why? JKR has been dangling McG kick-arsedness in front of us since the first chapter of the first book. Slowly she has been doing cooler and cooler things, from taking on Umbridge to giving Neville some self-confidence to fighting Death Eaters. I think it’s time she came onto her own.
When it comes to McG, I would love to see her take on leading both Hogwarts and the Order. Main stream science-fiction and fantasy are full of the elderly, male mentor who dies to the point where it’s become a cliché, but I cannot remember ever seen a woman step up to the plate to replace them and I think it is about time that one did. Yes, JKR has gone on the record and said that McG is not in the same league as Dumbledore, though she is a worthy second, which is even better. McG will struggle and she will overcome and that would just great to read.
I should also point out that McG is a contemporary of Tom Riddle and got given the job at Hogwarts over him. It’s obscure, but it would be interesting if that came up in book
seven.
3. Dumbledore was dying in HBP
And Snape knew it.
Why? Because it would make theory 4 much more plausible if it was true.
It was either the arm or the potion, probably aided when in combination with Dumbledore’s age.
4. Tonks will be in league with Snape.
If Snape is indeed Dumbledore’s man and working deep undercover, he will need at least one person to know of this. That person can transfer essential information from Snape to the Order and vice versa and that person can vouch for Snape when it’s all over. And who better to do that job than a person who is both trained in defence and holds a nice government position with some authority. A person who received high marks in concealment and disguise but has yet to use those abilities in a plot essential way. A person who was acting just a little bit fishy in the last book. And a person whose House is unknown and who has blood ties to a notoriously bad family so can easily switch sides.
And just think how brilliantly it could play out. Tonks will be feeding information to Snape about the trio’s progress about the Horcruxes and at some point in the book will be caught in the act. Harry makes the assumption that half-blood + Slytherin = evil (Tonks is totally a Slytherin). Tonks flees and the readers are manipulated into agreeing with Harry. Tonks shows up later with Snape and either the info as to the whereabouts of the Horcruxes or at least on of the unaccounted for Horcruxes, reveling the Tonks and Snape are both on the side of light and very deep undercover. Harry realizes his assumptions based on blood and Hogwarts house are wrong and that prejudice = bad.
Why? Because it’d be freaking awesome.
It would answer questions. Why do we have a known metamorphmagus if the powers are never going to be used for anything other than entertainment? Why do we have all this information about Tonks, like that she is a Black and that she is a half-blood if it is never going to be used? Comparatively, we don’t know anything about Kingsley, Dung and Mad-Eye. Why has JKR on purpose concealed which house Tonks belonged to at Hogwarts?
It would also tie up the Snape storyline, fit nicely into the theme that prejudice is bad, and function as the Slytherins do good event that is so desperately needed to really cement the message about cooperation.
5. Hogwarts will kick arse
Hogwarts is itself is an entity and will protect its students and teachers if they are threatened by a great enough force.
Why? Voldemort has giants, werewolves, Dementors and, of course, the Death Eaters. Seems to me they outnumber the side of the light by quite a bit. The playing field needs to be leveled, and what better to do it then the place where the final battle will pretty much inevitably take place. It also would make the Hogwarts motto make sense.
6. The Malfoy’s will turn
Lucius, Draco and Narcissa don’t seem to be the blindly loyalty type. Narcissa and Draco both defy Voldemort to some extent in HBP when Narcissa makes the deal with Snape and Draco is incapable of killing Dumbledore. I’m pretty sure that Lucius would only have gotten involved with the Death Eaters because initially he thought it would work out well for him. It’s no longer working out well for the Malfoy family and they’ll all be looking for a way out.
Though, saying that, I can’t imagine them ever fighting for the side of the light or being good. However, they’ll probably be willing to pass on information and names for a get out of jail free card.
Why? If I were Voldemort, I would have Slytherins do my dirty work. People with cunning, ambition, half a brain and of the opinion that they are above half-bloods and creatures like werewolves are not going to sit around and be treated like crap and being forced into making alliances with and taking orders from half-bloods, werewolves and giants. They’ll turn if they know they get a better deal on the other side. The question is, when the Malfoy’s turn, how much information and how many other Death Eaters will they bring with them?
Voldemort’s just going to have to learn the hard way that Hufflepuffs make far better henchmen.
7. Moony, Padfoot and Prongs will ride again
Let’s see: Harry’s Patronus is Prongs, Tonks’ Patronus is Moony. All it would take it for Remus or Peter’s Patronus to be Padfoot, which not outside of the realm of the possibility, and for them to all cast them at the same time, like, in say in a Dementor attack, which is again not outside of the realm of possibility, for the Marauders to symbolically return.
Why? Why not? It would just be a lovely moment if it were to happen. Two of the Marauders may be dead and the remaining two on separate sides, but the Marauders and the youthful innocence they represent, live on.
8. There will be equal amounts and maybe even more romance than HBP
Yeah, I know the criticisms of all the romance in HBP. However I do think there will be quite a substantial amount of romance and I think it is appropriate for there to be a substantial amount of romance.
Why? Because it’s war. War brings with it an urgency for people to live their live while they can and a lot of living one’s life happens to involve love and sex. In times of war, people become engaged and married in before they are sent off to the fronts. Look what happened with World War II. Loads of people became engaged or married and when the surviving solders came home and a lot of babies were born in the following years.
9. Harry will have the opportunity to kill Snape
I predict that Harry will have the choice to kill Snape, or let Snape die, only not take it. It is later revealed that when Harry let Snape live, Harry gained something he needed to destroy Voldemort, information or something, that he would not have received if Snape had died.
Why? Because JKR is playing an interesting game with fate and choice. The events leading to Harry having to defeat Voldemort so far have been the product of other people’s (namely Voldemort’s, Snape’s, and Lily’s). This finally gives Harry a choice, a moral choice about something different, but his decision will determine whether he defeats Voldemort or not. The message is that our moral choices are important in ways we cannot predict, so no matter what we should always do the right thing.
10. Hogwarts will be destroyed.
It’ll be completely totaled and they will have to go about building a new Hogwarts.
Why? The conflict in the Harry Potter books dates back to the formation of Hogwarts. Slytherin and Gryffindor’s break up is the origin of the rift between pureblood and Muggle-born. Harry and Voldemort seem to be just avatars of a greater conflict that is just gaining more and more strength as the century’s pass. Since it has been handed down through generations, really the only way to end it is to destroy the institution that began it all. From there they can rebuild and create a better future.
Ten Book Seven Theories and Predictions
1. We’re going to be seeing a lot of the Blacks
Yes, Sirius is dead. All evidence point to Regulus being dead. But the impression I got from Mrs. Black’s portrait was that the Blacks were more of a matriarchy so while the name is down, that’s not going to stop the family from having a large impact.
Why? We have too much information about them and we have too many players for them to not play a huge part. From the introduction of Sirius, we have slowly been learning more and more about the Black family, from the family home to new members being introduced, and I don’t think we are being given this information for no reason. Heck, the family House-Elf had a minor but pivotal role in OotP. One could point out that the Black family is there to be destroyed, however we have had the pureblood family destroys itself family already: the Crouchs.
As for the players, we have Narcissa, Bellatrix, Tonks and Draco who have appeared in canon and Andromeda is out there for potential of introduction. There is the good chance that Regulus is going to appear in the seventh book. And don’t forget Kreacher.
2. McGonagall will kick arse.
McG is a transfiguration teacher. Remember that episode of The Simpsons when Harry Potter was spoofed? Bart screwed up transfiguring a frog into a prince and created a pathetic frog-like creature that could only vomit and plead for its death. I bet you McG could do that to an opponent if she so wanted to.
Why? JKR has been dangling McG kick-arsedness in front of us since the first chapter of the first book. Slowly she has been doing cooler and cooler things, from taking on Umbridge to giving Neville some self-confidence to fighting Death Eaters. I think it’s time she came onto her own.
When it comes to McG, I would love to see her take on leading both Hogwarts and the Order. Main stream science-fiction and fantasy are full of the elderly, male mentor who dies to the point where it’s become a cliché, but I cannot remember ever seen a woman step up to the plate to replace them and I think it is about time that one did. Yes, JKR has gone on the record and said that McG is not in the same league as Dumbledore, though she is a worthy second, which is even better. McG will struggle and she will overcome and that would just great to read.
I should also point out that McG is a contemporary of Tom Riddle and got given the job at Hogwarts over him. It’s obscure, but it would be interesting if that came up in book
seven.
3. Dumbledore was dying in HBP
And Snape knew it.
Why? Because it would make theory 4 much more plausible if it was true.
It was either the arm or the potion, probably aided when in combination with Dumbledore’s age.
4. Tonks will be in league with Snape.
If Snape is indeed Dumbledore’s man and working deep undercover, he will need at least one person to know of this. That person can transfer essential information from Snape to the Order and vice versa and that person can vouch for Snape when it’s all over. And who better to do that job than a person who is both trained in defence and holds a nice government position with some authority. A person who received high marks in concealment and disguise but has yet to use those abilities in a plot essential way. A person who was acting just a little bit fishy in the last book. And a person whose House is unknown and who has blood ties to a notoriously bad family so can easily switch sides.
And just think how brilliantly it could play out. Tonks will be feeding information to Snape about the trio’s progress about the Horcruxes and at some point in the book will be caught in the act. Harry makes the assumption that half-blood + Slytherin = evil (Tonks is totally a Slytherin). Tonks flees and the readers are manipulated into agreeing with Harry. Tonks shows up later with Snape and either the info as to the whereabouts of the Horcruxes or at least on of the unaccounted for Horcruxes, reveling the Tonks and Snape are both on the side of light and very deep undercover. Harry realizes his assumptions based on blood and Hogwarts house are wrong and that prejudice = bad.
Why? Because it’d be freaking awesome.
It would answer questions. Why do we have a known metamorphmagus if the powers are never going to be used for anything other than entertainment? Why do we have all this information about Tonks, like that she is a Black and that she is a half-blood if it is never going to be used? Comparatively, we don’t know anything about Kingsley, Dung and Mad-Eye. Why has JKR on purpose concealed which house Tonks belonged to at Hogwarts?
It would also tie up the Snape storyline, fit nicely into the theme that prejudice is bad, and function as the Slytherins do good event that is so desperately needed to really cement the message about cooperation.
5. Hogwarts will kick arse
Hogwarts is itself is an entity and will protect its students and teachers if they are threatened by a great enough force.
Why? Voldemort has giants, werewolves, Dementors and, of course, the Death Eaters. Seems to me they outnumber the side of the light by quite a bit. The playing field needs to be leveled, and what better to do it then the place where the final battle will pretty much inevitably take place. It also would make the Hogwarts motto make sense.
6. The Malfoy’s will turn
Lucius, Draco and Narcissa don’t seem to be the blindly loyalty type. Narcissa and Draco both defy Voldemort to some extent in HBP when Narcissa makes the deal with Snape and Draco is incapable of killing Dumbledore. I’m pretty sure that Lucius would only have gotten involved with the Death Eaters because initially he thought it would work out well for him. It’s no longer working out well for the Malfoy family and they’ll all be looking for a way out.
Though, saying that, I can’t imagine them ever fighting for the side of the light or being good. However, they’ll probably be willing to pass on information and names for a get out of jail free card.
Why? If I were Voldemort, I would have Slytherins do my dirty work. People with cunning, ambition, half a brain and of the opinion that they are above half-bloods and creatures like werewolves are not going to sit around and be treated like crap and being forced into making alliances with and taking orders from half-bloods, werewolves and giants. They’ll turn if they know they get a better deal on the other side. The question is, when the Malfoy’s turn, how much information and how many other Death Eaters will they bring with them?
Voldemort’s just going to have to learn the hard way that Hufflepuffs make far better henchmen.
7. Moony, Padfoot and Prongs will ride again
Let’s see: Harry’s Patronus is Prongs, Tonks’ Patronus is Moony. All it would take it for Remus or Peter’s Patronus to be Padfoot, which not outside of the realm of the possibility, and for them to all cast them at the same time, like, in say in a Dementor attack, which is again not outside of the realm of possibility, for the Marauders to symbolically return.
Why? Why not? It would just be a lovely moment if it were to happen. Two of the Marauders may be dead and the remaining two on separate sides, but the Marauders and the youthful innocence they represent, live on.
8. There will be equal amounts and maybe even more romance than HBP
Yeah, I know the criticisms of all the romance in HBP. However I do think there will be quite a substantial amount of romance and I think it is appropriate for there to be a substantial amount of romance.
Why? Because it’s war. War brings with it an urgency for people to live their live while they can and a lot of living one’s life happens to involve love and sex. In times of war, people become engaged and married in before they are sent off to the fronts. Look what happened with World War II. Loads of people became engaged or married and when the surviving solders came home and a lot of babies were born in the following years.
9. Harry will have the opportunity to kill Snape
I predict that Harry will have the choice to kill Snape, or let Snape die, only not take it. It is later revealed that when Harry let Snape live, Harry gained something he needed to destroy Voldemort, information or something, that he would not have received if Snape had died.
Why? Because JKR is playing an interesting game with fate and choice. The events leading to Harry having to defeat Voldemort so far have been the product of other people’s (namely Voldemort’s, Snape’s, and Lily’s). This finally gives Harry a choice, a moral choice about something different, but his decision will determine whether he defeats Voldemort or not. The message is that our moral choices are important in ways we cannot predict, so no matter what we should always do the right thing.
10. Hogwarts will be destroyed.
It’ll be completely totaled and they will have to go about building a new Hogwarts.
Why? The conflict in the Harry Potter books dates back to the formation of Hogwarts. Slytherin and Gryffindor’s break up is the origin of the rift between pureblood and Muggle-born. Harry and Voldemort seem to be just avatars of a greater conflict that is just gaining more and more strength as the century’s pass. Since it has been handed down through generations, really the only way to end it is to destroy the institution that began it all. From there they can rebuild and create a better future.