Seventh book predictions.

[Taylor]

Minerva makes Filius the next deputy headmaster.

Hagrid becomes the griffindor HOH.

Neville becomes a teacher by the end of the seventh book. He will also play an important part in the seventh book and his powers will increase. In time he will become the head master for Hogwarts... (ok. I know that may be a shameless teaser for Destinys child...)

the positions open in the school will be-

Head of House Gryfindore & Slytherin.

DADA teacher

Potions Teacher

Transfiguration teacher.

Deputy headmaster/ Mistress.

Rooms in the room of Requirement are actual rooms in the castle.

More than one of the Horcroxes will be found at Hogwarts.

Kreatcher will play an important roll in the seventh book.

Dobby becomes Harrys new house elf.

Several of the classes like Muggle studies may not be taught, Hogwarts may become a defensive school in its training.

Madam' Trawlanys prediction of Harry living to be a ripe old age, becoming the MOM and having 12 kids will happen.- and none of them will ever have a scar...

The movie GOF will finaly win some award because LOTR has finished its series and there arn't any other movies that are serious compitition.

Taylor

[Alesia]

Okay Taylor, I will rise to the bait. I have been avoiding doing this because we have 2 years to go but if you are willing to take the plunge I will go with you.

I agree with you about Filus being the next deputy. (Even if it is just temporary - he is quite old.)

I am also with you about Hagrid being the Head of Gryffindor.

Neville is absolutely my choice to be the one who returns and he will return as the DADA teacher.

I disagree about the potions position. I think Slughorn will stay; he is safer at Hogwarts then on his own. He will function as the Head of Slytherin (again like Flitwick, it may only be temporary)

I can see Minerva attempting to do both Transfiguration and be Headmistress (again because of the war and a smaller returning student body)

I think we will get a new DADA teacher but just because of what JK said in her interview. (Which to me means Hogwarts reopens even in some limited capacity)

I am not sure I agree with the Room of Requirement being actual rooms in the castle so much as it pulls elements from existing rooms. (The Fo glass piece in OotP is what leads me to that conclusion.)

If there is a Horcrux at Hogwarts it is the unknown Ravenclaw or Gryffindor piece. The locket is at Grimmauld Place, the snake is at Riddle manor, the cup is who knows where - the orphanage maybe?
(As much as I would love to see the locket and RAB be someone other then who we think it is, if she is going to get everything done in less then 2000 pages, she has to make the locket quick and easy.)

Kreacher went with Regelus and he is how Harry will find the locket, but I think that is it.

I can't see Harry being comfortable with Dobby becoming his employee.

I agree with the idea Hogwarts curriculum will be cut. It will be interesting to see what the new Headmistress does about divination. It will definitely tell us whether she knows about the prophecy.

I would love to see Harry happy with 12 kids AND have Trewlaney be correct, but I just don't know that JK will ever let Harry be happy.

Some other things I think we may see:

• Hogwarts does reopen

• The death of Hagrid (To be replaced by a returning Charlie Weasley),

• Draco is still a bad guy, (but not good at it)

• Dumbledore was not the secret keeper for the Order,

• Percy Weasley will not return to his family and see the Light,

• We will either see A) much more of the adults - which I, personality would prefer or B) the adults will hardly be in the book at all - which I am hoping against,

• Tom Riddle was a follower of Grindelwald and was present when Dumbledore defeated him,

• Snape will remain in the grey. He may die saving someone and redeem himself somewhat but I don't think it will Harry,

• Petunia is a Seer and is the one who will develop magic late in life,

• Lupin gets the opportunity to kill Peter and doesn’t, (Peter goes to Askaban)

• The Trio and Ginny live,

• Aberforth Dumbledore is not the only person in Albus’s family,

• and because this ship floats until JK explicitly says it is sunk - Confirmation Dumbledore and Minerva were a couple! ;D

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[Taylor]

I disagree about the potions position. I think Slughorn will stay; he is safer at Hogwarts then on his own. He will function as the Head of Slytherin (again like Flitwick, it may only be temporary)

[glow=red,2,300]It depends on how safe Slughorn feels, or if he feels that it can benifit him in any way. He knows that the longer he stays at hogwarts, the more in jepordy what he has - his finer things in life- and he is a creature of comfort- may be taken away from him. It took alot of perswading by dumbledore to get him to go to hogwarts.[/glow]

I can see Minerva attempting to do both Transfiguration and be Headmistress (again because of the war and a smaller returning student body)

[glow=red,2,300]Unless she is using a time turner, someone figured out the amount of hours that they would be doing a week per each class, and its typicly 50-60 hrs a week, plus grading papers. Running a school is full tim as well, so it would be doubtful she could do both unless she combined her classes into one class [/glow]
I think we will get a new DADA teacher but just because of what JK said in her interview. (Which to me means Hogwarts reopens even in some limited capacity)

[glow=red,2,300]yeah, Hogwarts will reopen, it has to to have one of the students return as a teacher. (btw, she has said in interviews it isn't Ron, hermione or harry, which leaves Neville- and he is good at Herbology, so what happens to professor Sprout?- unless SHE becomes the new Potions professor and Slughorn moves to the DADA teacher)[/glow]

I am not sure I agree with the Room of Requirement being actual rooms in the castle so much as it pulls elements from existing rooms. (The Fo glass piece in OotP is what leads me to that conclusion.)

[glow=red,2,300]What tipped me off to it being an actual room is the PC game, if you go down through one of the ports, it takes you to a storage area much like where Harry found a place to hide his book, which btw, was the place that they put the vanishing cabnet that was broken. They had to put it some place, and as Filch wasn't aware that where he was going to get the cleaning supplys is the same place where he places the old stuff. It is ironic that Harry was so close to the vanshing cabnet- unless Malfoys charmed the place to be the inside of a vanishing cabnet that linked to the one in Knockturn ally[/glow].

If there is a Horcrux at Hogwarts it is the unknown Ravenclaw or Gryffindor piece. The locket is at Grimmauld Place, the snake is at Riddle manor, the cup is who knows where - the orphanage maybe?
(As much as I would love to see the locket and RAB be someone other then who we think it is, if she is going to get everything done in less then 2000 pages, she has to make the locket quick and easy.)

[glow=red,2,300]She has pretty much said in one of the interviews done after HBP that RAB was Sirius brother. There are only two known artifacts for gryfindor at this time the sorting hat which belonged to Godric, and the sword. I don't think that it is ether of them as the diary manafested evil I can imagin that if someone put the locket on a chain and wore it, that ether it would posess them, or try to strangle them. Odd though, what would Salazar Slytherin be doing with a locket anyway??? [/glow]

Kreacher went with Regelus and he is how Harry will find the locket, but I think that is it.

I can't see Harry being comfortable with Dobby becoming his employee.
[glow=red,2,300]Dobby works for Pay, but he has also promised to help harry in every way. Dobby may follow harry where ever he goes. Now that Albus is gone, the contract that he made with Dobby is finished. There is also the question of Winky, now that she has no family to serve, what will become of her?[/glow]

I agree with the idea Hogwarts curriculum will be cut. It will be interesting to see what the new Headmistress does about divination. It will definitely tell us whether she knows about the prophecy.

[glow=red,2,300]She probably does, in some form. She also has Albus as a portrate right by her desk, and no doubt will be in long discussions with it - which, I am not sure why she just didn't ask the portrate what they were doing unless she knew Albus wouldn't tell her living- or dead.[/glow]

I would love to see Harry happy with 12 kids AND have Trewlaney be correct, but I just don't know that JK will ever let Harry be happy.
[glow=red,2,300]Getting back to the divinations question, as long as there is a hogwarts Trawlany will have a home- they can't risk letting her out in the world and Voldemort get her, so, yes, while Minerva knows Trawlany is worthless in teaching the subject, she would probaby know she made a predition that involves harry. Do you remember Rons prediciting about the drowning? and right after that he is stuck in the lake for GOF? well , sometimes there are self fufilling prophacys, and if harry marrys Ginny, yes, 12 kids are possible. Ginny has her own special magic being the seventh child, and a girl the first girl to be born in the weasly family for several generations.[/glow]

Some other things I think we may see:

• Hogwarts does reopen

• The death of Hagrid (To be replaced by a returning Charlie Weasley),

[glow=red,2,300]JK has said that Hagrid will be in all of the books, Giants are very diffcult, if not impossible to kill, except when they bash eachother, in effect, it would take another giant to kill hagrid.[/glow]

• Draco is still a bad guy, (but not good at it)
[glow=red,2,300]I have a feeling because of the unbreakable vow, draco will fail, and snape will die as a result of it. JK also mentioned redemption in book 7.[/glow]

• Dumbledore was not the secret keeper for the Order,
[glow=red,2,300]Dumbledore was the secret keeper for Grimaldplace, unless he told you where it was at, you couldn't find it. (thats at the beginning of OOP.now for the order itself, I don't know , as it was a collection of people, that it really could have a secret keeper. Clearly the teachers at the school support Albus, but they are not nessasarly members of the order as we never see them at the meetings,[/glow]

• Percy Weasley will not return to his family and see the Light,

[glow=red,2,300]Percy is a stupid ambitious git. even when the ministry says make nice with the family he cant because of his ambitions. Someone said something about a character named Percivil who betrayed those who cared about him and there has been speculation that Percy will do the same, and more, with his own family. (IMHO, Percy should be the one reciving Shock treatment at St Mungos, or join those who have been confunded...)[/glow]

• We will either see A) much more of the adults - which I, personality would prefer or B) the adults will hardly be in the book at all - which I am hoping against,

[glow=red,2,300]Alas, its the story of Harry, so if Harry interacts with the adults, we will see that.[/glow]

• Tom Riddle was a follower of Grindelwald and was present when Dumbledore defeated him,

[glow=red,2,300]Well, he would have to be pretty young to do that.
Grindelwald happened during WW2. Minerva and Tom are about the same age (which means Minerva went to school with Hagrid) There is no indication of a connection between them as his history starts at the orphanage, and he goes directly into school then works at Knockturn ally, and by the time he has graduated, Grindewald has perished. (note that the frog card said dumbledore was responsible for Grindelwalds defeat, not death. He also said there were "many ways to distroy a man that were far worse than death"[/glow]

• Snape will remain in the grey. He may die saving someone and redeem himself somewhat but I don't think it will Harry,

[glow=red,2,300]See above, I think his death would be linked to the unbreakable vow he made, and he may figure ether way he is a dead man. Albus did say that Malfoy was not a killer. [/glow]

• Petunia is a Seer and is the one who will develop magic late in life,

[glow=red,2,300]Alas,Petunia is as muggle as they come. If she was a wizard, her name would have been down in the book. [/glow]

• Lupin gets the opportunity to kill Peter and doesn’t, (Peter goes to Askaban)

[glow=red,2,300]Ah, well, Peter has a silver hand, and silver can kill werewolves. Peter also knows given the chance they would turn him in for betraying Lily and James. While he is a coward, he is also a rat.[/glow]

• The Trio and Ginny live,

[glow=red,2,300]yeah, and Neville too! actually, JKs final chapter deals with what happens to everyone, so, someones got to live to tell the tale.[/glow]

• Aberforth Dumbledore is not the only person in Albus’s family,

[glow=red,2,300]At this time Alberforth is the only one she has mentioned. if there are more, they would have shown up at the funeral, wouldn't they? [/glow]

• and because this ship floats until JK explicitly says it is sunk - Confirmation Dumbledore and Minerva were a couple!

[glow=red,2,300]you realize, in a grand way, now that Minerva is Headmistress, when she dies, her portate will hang beside Albus's forever... and the people in the portrate are allowed to travel between pictures?

If you have a copy of POA on disk there is a place where that knight who took over for the pink lady is getting very friendly with the maiden with the flowers. (minerva has her hair down in that cut sciene too.)[/glow]

anyone else want to join in on the speculation?
taylor

[ginny]

Me!

So, yeah..

I disagree about the potions position. I think Slughorn will stay; he is safer at Hogwarts then on his own. He will function as the Head of Slytherin (again like Flitwick, it may only be temporary)
I think that Slughorn might stay or might not stay; seeing as he wasn't the DADA teacher, he does not have to leave, and he might feel a bit safer at Hogwarts then at home. Although, since Dumbledore died it might have shifted his feeling and he feels that he wants to go back to his house.

I can see Minerva attempting to do both Transfiguration and be Headmistress (again because of the war and a smaller returning student body)

I dunno. As taylor said, she might not have enough time to do all the work. Even though the headmaster/mistress does not teach a class, they still have lots of work, so I don't know if she can handle it.

I think we will get a new DADA teacher but just because of what JK said in her interview. (Which to me means Hogwarts reopens even in some limited capacity)
Yes, i think so too. it makes sense. and it might be one of the students, cuz as taylor said, JKR said that a student will teach a class.

If there is a Horcrux at Hogwarts it is the unknown Ravenclaw or Gryffindor piece. The locket is at Grimmauld Place, the snake is at Riddle manor, the cup is who knows where - the orphanage maybe?
(As much as I would love to see the locket and RAB be someone other then who we think it is, if she is going to get everything done in less then 2000 pages, she has to make the locket quick and easy.)
Yeah, I agree. It may be something else, but most likely the ravenclaw piece, not so much the Gryffindor, because Dumbledore said that the only exsisting thing known to him of Gryffindor's was the sword, and I don't think that is a Horcrux.


• Hogwarts does reopen
i dunno. I want it to, but if it does reopen, there will be some way where Harry, Ron, and Hermione have to go back to Hogwarts.

• The death of Hagrid (To be replaced by a returning Charlie Weasley)
He's been attacked many times, and hes survived all those stunners. Plus, hes got giant blood, so I dont think he'll be killed.

• Draco is still a bad guy, (but not good at it)
I think that Voldie will punish him for not doing his job. Although Snape did it for him, Draco was going to go over to the good side. If Voldie doesn't punish him, he will stay bad though.

• Dumbledore was not the secret keeper for the Order
Ermm...I have nothing to say except for that I think he was. I dunno how to support that though.

• Percy Weasley will not return to his family and see the Light
I agree. Percy's a git.

• We will either see A) much more of the adults - which I, personality would prefer or B) the adults will hardly be in the book at all - which I am hoping against
Hmmm....I'm going for A. I think that'll happen.

• Tom Riddle was a follower of Grindelwald and was present when Dumbledore defeated him
I don't think Tom Riddle was alive when Grindelwald was....he might've cuz DD defeated him in 1945 and the 2nd book is supposed to take place in 1992, so then 50 years ago (the the CoS to be opened) would be 1942....hmmm...he might've, but I doubt it. It's a good theory though. It's acutally kind of like Draco, following voldie at a young age.

• Snape will remain in the grey. He may die saving someone and redeem himself somewhat but I don't think it will Harry
I'm still debating about wether he is good or bad. So I dunno about this one.

• Petunia is a Seer and is the one who will develop magic late in life
I don't think she is the Seer, but I agree that she's the one who will develop magic late in life.

• Lupin gets the opportunity to kill Peter and doesn’t, (Peter goes to Askaban)
I think that Peter will die saving Harry or someone else. Dumbledore said in the 3rd book that Peter owes Harry, but I dunno if he will do anything for Harry....

• The Trio and Ginny live
I would like that to happen....but I doubt it. I dunno why, I just do...and I wish I didn't, lol

• Aberforth Dumbledore is not the only person in Albus’s family
Ooh, I think we might find out more about DD's past....maybe...meh...i dunno, but I agree that there are more peeps in his family.

• and because this ship floats until JK explicitly says it is sunk - Confirmation Dumbledore and Minerva were a couple!
Of course!

And on the topic of shipping, I think that it will be Ron/Hermione and maybe Harry will defeat Voldie and then it will be Harry/Ginny again! ;D

~Ginny

[hpimperfections]

I agree with some of your predictions, but I think Neville's too young and inexperienced to be up for a teaching position. Also, I think Slughorn will stay on because at heart he's really extremely loyal to Dumbledore. I don't know if Hagrid will become HOH, but I agree that Flitwick will probably become Deputy headmaster.

In addition, my predictions are that Hogwarts will reopen and that Harry, Ron, and Hermione will spend at least some time at Hogwarts, if not a whole school year. I also think that JK is going to kill off Minerva, Lupin, possibly Luna, and possibly Neville. Also, if Dumbledore is indeed still alive, he will not appear until the end of the seventh book and he will not help Harry fight Voldemort.

[foci too busy to sign in]

Lupin will live. I'd bet you anything. He is JKR's favourite character. He is paired off with Tonks. One of the Weasleys is more likely to die than he is.

[Alexannah]

I like Lupin, but I think all the Marauders will be dead by the end of the series. 2 are dead so far, and in reverse order to how they appear on the map (Prongs then Padfoot), so I think Wormtail will be next and then Lupin. That and JKR's website rule out the silver-hand-werewolf theory. Wormtail has to repay his debt too, so he'll probably die for it.

I honestly don't believe Albus is dead. I could get into a whole seperate debate on that one.

I don't think Harry will live (as much as I want him to). I think Ron, Ginny and Molly will die too. Minerva will live, though, and obviously married to Albus. Ron will be killed by Bellatrix.

I think Albus and Minerva are James' parents ie Harry's grandparents. I have 'evidence' to back that up, if anyone wants a debate on it!

Neville will play a part in the end, and I think he may be a teacher ... don't know what he'll teach, though. Herbology would be the obvious one but JKR doesn't do obvious.

I really want to find out ore about Albus' family, even if they are dead. And Aberforth is the key to the locket mystery, because he got it off Mundungus, who stole it from Grimmauld Place with the silverware.

I have no idea what Slytherin would want with a locket.

I think the fact that Minerva and Tom Riddle are only 2 years apart in age means something, but I've no idea what. Grindlewald probably has some significance too, but again I haven't a clue what.

I don't think Albus will help with Voldie's defeat par se, but will sort of give little nudges in the right direction from the sidelines. And Snape's still loyal to him, so I expect he'll play a part too.

Petunia doesn't have to be a witch/wizard to be a Seer. JKR said she's not a Squib or a witch and there's definately more to her than meets the eye. So that only leaves Seer.

She was also in contact with Albus since Harry was left with them.

I reckon one of the Horcruxes is at Godric's Hollow; the name makes me think it's Gryffindor's. Another will be at Hogwarts; it's inevitable as TR spnt what was probably his best years there.

Er, that's about all I can think of there, but I do have some other theories somewhere in the murky depths of my brain.

[hpimperfections]

Wow! I'm seriously amazed that you actually think Harry is going to die! I doubt that's going to happen though--some of the plot elements in the series are just too predictable, and JKR does have young readers who would simply be inconsolable if Harry died. As interesting as it would make the series, I doubt Voldemort is going to triumph. After all, what the books really come down to is a battle between good and evil. I don't think any members of the Golden Trio (i.e. Harry, Ron, Hermione) are going to die, and I doubt JK will kill off the Weasley family. If she does, that'll make me sad even though they're not my favorite characters. It's just not right.

By the way, I'm pretty sure JKR says something on her site about Dumbledore not being related to Harry, so...I'm more than willing to debate that with you though.

On Dumbledore's family...I think JK says that there may be something about them. Also, WHERE is there evidence in the book that Aberforth Dumbledore has anything to do with anything? He is mentioned once in the fourth book and that is it. Some sources say he is the bartender of the Hogs Head. That has to be a completely random theory, unless JK specifically stated it, which I'm not sure about. If there is any evidence to this effect, please share it.

I've been searching JK's site for this one part where she says something about Grindelwald's significance being revealed in the seventh book...However, I have not been able to find it (sigh!).

Albus's existence will probably not be discovered until after Voldemort has been defeated.

I like your idea of a Horcrux at Godric's Hollow--also the connection between the place name and Godric Gryffindor. Slow person that I can be, I seriously only just realized it when I read it in your post.

One new prediction: Snape will--a) die or b)be killed by 1) a Death Eater or 2) one of the DA members or a misguided teacher.

hpimperfections

[foci too whatever to sign in]

...Snape will be killed by Voldie...
And JKR personally stated that Aberforth WAS the bartender of the Hog's Head. I think it happened during a book reading or public interview, somewhere between OOTP and HBP. I can't give you a link but I'm sure you'll find this on mugglenet or TLC.

[Alexannah]

The link to the interview is:

www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/news_view.cfm?id=80