One more, and then I'll stop. Really.

[cahn]

In the interest of being able to say "I told you so" (or alternatively "You told me so"), here are my HP predictions:

1. Snape is good. Also, he is so dead.
2. Harry won't die (a recent conversion of mine; until about a month ago I totally thought he was going to kick the bucket).
3. Malfoy will convert messily to good, then die or be gravely wounded.
4. One of the Weasleys will die, but it won't be the parents or Ron or Ginny. My money's on one of the twins.
5. Snape will turn out to have had feelings for Lily, which is why Dumbledore trusted him, and why he never told Harry. There will continue to be just about zero reason why he didn't tell McGonagall anything useful.
6. (okay, this one's a bit far out) Pettigrew will deliver the killing blow to the Dark Lord.

Things I wish would happen in Book 7, but probably won't:
1. Krum comes back and kicks Ron out of Hermione's affections.
2. Barring that, Ron and Hermione call it quits and she starts dating Harry.
3. Ron grows up. (Actually, I give this a 40% chance. Please?)
4. Snape turns out to be working for the highest bidder, and isn't on the side of "good" or "evil" at all.
5. Dumbledore had a good reason not to actually, you know, teach Harry useful magic in his "tutoring" sessions. Along with this, he had a good non-expository-backstory reason to tell Harry Riddle's story.
6. Harry realizes that jumping to conclusions about people being evil is wrong, and maybe one of these days he should stop doing that, even if he is right once in a while.
7. Harry makes any effort at all to practice Occlumency.

(Occlumency... by the way... "Blocked again and again and again until you keep your mouth shut and your mind closed!" Replace "shut" and "closed" with "open" and "free" and this would be a good description of what my singing teacher says to me. EVERY WEEK. Grr. Singing is like the anti-Occlumency!)

Okay. I'll try to stop now with the potter. At least until july 21. I will. (Now that we've finished the sixth book, this will be a bit easier.)

Comments

[julianyap.livejournal.com]

(Hello!)

So, my theory of why Dumbledore trusts Snape so much is because they made that unbreakable vow thing (can't remember what it is called) that Snape makes at the beginning of Book 6.

I think this is good because why else would you introduce it right at the beginning of Book 6? On the other hand, it would tend to undermine the character trait of "Dumbledore has absolute faith in people" so the theory isn't perfect.

[joyce.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on 1, 2, and 3 (the power of Love will bring everyone to Good, right?). I don't think she'll have the umph to kill one of the Weasleys; I think Luna or Neville is more likely (and that would suck, I love both of them, especially poor Neville). 5 could be interesting, but would that have been enough to make Snape work for Dumbledore, especially since Lily ended up with someone else?

And I'm taking no bets on who's going to kill Voldemort (except Harry, the obvious choice.) I think a random number generator could do better. :)

I'm really, really hoping that Snape is playing on for himself. One thing I don't like about the books is that everyone is either Good or Evil, and that's not how real life goes.

I've never been much of a Potter geek, but I'm really looking forward to seeing how it all ends. :)