Book Seven Predictions
antosha_c participated in a "Book Seven Predictions" Meme today, and I couldn't resist trying my hand. bandcandy has done something similar in the past, but I was able to maintain self-control in her case. Now I've lost it, and I have to give in. I'm listing AC's predictions below in italics and replying to them; then I'll add my own.
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But, but, if you're going to pick a Weasley to kill, Percy is the easy choice. To make good angst, we would need someone who hasn't been set up on such a redemptive track. Anyway, what Percy needs to sacrifice isn't his life, it's his political career.
Luna ... or else she'll snuff it.
No, don't say it! She's the one I'm most worried about.
We will learn that Severus Snape believed himself to be in love with Lily Evans, but that she never loved him, except possibly as a pal. He hates Harry because he sees Lily’s eyes looking out of James’s face.
That fits my feeling, too, but I worry that it's too shippy a prediction to have much to do with the actual story.
Harry will wind up (in the Epilogue) being an Auror. (I want him to be the long-term DADA teacher
I'd like him to be a Quidditch player. Auror is too much like what he's going through now.
Viktor Krum will do battle against the Death Eaters. I have no prediction as to whether he will ( ... )
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I'm worried about Luna too. I hope she survives.
Quiddich player would be a pleasant career for Harry, but I think Jo has invested too much in the "Auror track" option -- both McGonagall's extravagant promises in OoP and the last-minute reprive into NEWT-level potions in HBP. Personally I'd hate to be an Auror if I'd just spent the last third of my life fighting evil.
I like your line about Krum. But I think this would be more like losing the snitch and winning the game.
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We know, though, that Lily's eyes in Harry's face have some tremendous importance, and that there's something significant about Lily we haven't learned yet. Nor has Snape's behavior immediately after Dumbledore's death been explained. The unrequited love explanation is the neatest, most efficient explanation and I think we've been building toward it.
As to the Epilogue, Rowling has said (as Tolkien said) that the primary topic of the series is death. The appendices (essentially epilogues) to LotR showed us the lengthy lives and accomplishments, and eventually deaths, of the characters. In The World According to Garp (in which the protagonist says, "A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases"), the epilogue takes us through the entire lives, including the deaths, of all the remaining characters, including the baby who eventually dies in middle age of cancer. Jo's already said she'll show us the future of the survivors ( ... )
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Oooh! Oooh! Are you aware of the big push in the H/Hr camp that alchemy figures very strongly in the series ...
... and is proof that Harry will end up with Hermione???
The latest is all here, unless you're locked out of it.
Ron already told her he loves her.
What, that facetious bit of rubbish in the common room towards the end of HBP?
It will be necessary for Ginny & Harry's love to contribute to the end of Voldemort
*blaaarggh*
*bleh*
*vomit*
Are you serious?
Gawd, the 'romance' between them in HBP was such a badly written farce ... the seventh book is going to be completely unbelievable if H/G 'love' is supposed to underpin the demise of Voldemort!!
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No, but I'm interested. I'll take a look (although alchemy isn't my field -- I'd just heard about the black-white-red thing and thought, "wow").
I already told you I wasn't rooting for any of the ships before HBP and I experienced no glee at how things fell out. But I think JKR has had her say on the subject. In the meanwhile, no seventeen-year-old boy ever said "I love you" to a girl he knew well, facetious or not, without some big feeling behind it; that goes double for someone normally as emotion-avoidant as Ron.
And as for the H/G love -- we already know LV is wiped out by "love" of some kind. Could be lots of kinds. Don't know. But the only real plot justification for splitting H & G up at the end of HBP is to give them a moment to come back together that turns out to be important for some reason. So it's not too far-fetched...
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Hmmm. What you say about the H/G breakup etc is certainly plausible, so I have to agree, yes, it could end that way. But Harry could just as easily never link up again with Ginny, find someone else, etc. But I appreciate your point, that it's not 'far fetched', fair enough. In fact, given the dissatisfaction many of us had with their 'romance' in HBP, perhaps a second attempt at H/G by JKR would prove to be much more impressive. Couldn't be worse :-)
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The one thing I'm aching to find out about (not a prediction but a hope - though probably one that won't come to fruition) is what happened to Lily and James's parents.
We know both sets of parents were around while their children were at Hogwarts (Petunia complains about Lily getting special attention from their parents b/c of her magic, and Sirius talks about spending a lot of time at the Potters'), but somehow by the time Harry was orphaned all his (presumably young) grandparents seemed to have snuffed it. I want some answers!
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How very unsatisfying.
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