this is my pet theory - about how harry potter books can be treated as a trilogy, it contains no spoilers, the second part is my wild wild guessing about what might happen in the seventh book.


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comments are wellcomed.

( cut for Deathly Hallows spoilers )

Don`t worry, no spoilers here.
I finished the book about 7 hours ago, and I just wanted to see if anybody else felt a little iono, maybe the word is empty after finishing.
This is the end; JKRs said theres no more hp books.
Its kinda saddening, actually, cause I`ve been reading these books since I was about 8(maybe 9) years old, so Harry Potter has literally been my childhood(i`ma be 17 soon).
When a series of books is so interesting that you read it over and over again, and read a book in one sitting, it feels like you know the characters, like they`ve become your friends. The end of this series is like I lost a group of my friends.
Its a book your either gonna love or hate; Im completely on the love side.
Now if this is completely crazy or not appropriate, i mean its not much left to theorize on, i will blame the crazyness of it on the fact that ive had 4 hours of sleep in the past 40 hours.

Happy reading, everybody.

No real theories, just a few Snape-related comments.

( Cut for length as well as Deathly Hallows spoilers )

Current Music: Sinfonia from Le Nozze di Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I have a (cracked) theory on how HP7 could go. Just click here for details. Sorry if this isn't the place for this.

Current Mood: weird

I, for one, have enjoyed talking about the plots, characters, and themes present in Harry Potter as much as (if not more than) reading the books. Whether or not a fan agrees with what JK Rowling did with the full series (I'm very pro-all 7, not that it matters), one has to admit that she knows at least a moderate amount of mythology from various cultures, not to mention a good amount of history.

That said, I recommend that all who wish to continue discussing HP turn to discussing the origins of HP.

( And here's where the spoilers for DH begin! )

Well, this is it. It's the last night before the book comes out. i know this is a very last minute there but i just made a connection that i really think may be important! (And for the record, i absolutely have NOT read any of the spoilers that are currently online!)

( Possible spoiler- but only because of an intuitive guess, not because of actual spoiler content )

Wow. i'm so excited about the next book coming out... and so sad. i'm really going to miss theorizing about what it all means! Ah well, i can't wait for tomorrow!!!!

Could Dumbledore have been an inferius?

Ok, this suggestion's probably worthy of the 'Quibbler'. The sooner the book comes out, the sooner sanity returns.
Mostly.

It never does say how Percy came to have Scabbers, does it?  (I'm re-reading POA, and for some reason, that question just occured to me.  Sad.)  That's kind of odd, don't you think?  Why on earth would Wormtail/Scabbers want to be with the Weasley family?  He couldn't have predicted that Ron and Harry would end up best friends.  Maybe he wanted to be close to members of the Order, hoping he'd hear something useful, I guess.  

Sometimes I wonder about Percy;  most of the time he just seems like a pompous creep.  But occasionally he seems like he has the potential to be more sinister than that.

So I (along with everyone else, I am sure) am re-reading all of the books I can before Saturday. While reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I stumbled across this:

"Whats the point?" Ron said dully. "We've got about as much chance of winning the Quidditch Cup this year as Dad's got of becoming the Minister of Magic..."

Gryffindor won the cup, so my thoughts are that its possible Arthur could become the Minister of Magic. It would fit nicely into the scenario with Percy.


Also:
Does anyone know if JK Rowling has said anything about the mirrors that Sirius gave Harry in book 5?

WARNING: There are now official, real spoilers in the wild. Photographs of every page have been leaked on bittorrent. There are already reports of trolls posting very spoilery comments in unrelated threads on various websites, so be careful!

A non-spoiler story about it, though it does contain some (short, non-spoilery) quotes.

Just thought people should know so you can be extra-vigilant.

x-posting to hptheories and unplottables

Current Mood: annoyed

Assuming that the leaked books are faked (in which case I'm probably wrong) and also that Snape did actually AK Dumbledore . . .

So, given I've been mostly lurking in this fandom for a good 5 years, and that the time for (predictive) theorising will soon be at an end, I think it's high time I post my theory about how Harry will defeat Voldemort.

Alas, irongargoyle beat me to parts of it in this post, but there were a few other points that I wanted to make in support of the theory, so I thought I'd just post the whole thing anyways...

( Does Voldemort have to die? )

But yeah. Curious about what everyone else thinks... *opens the floor*

This is probably major old news, and I'm sure I'm not the first one to think of it by a long shot.  But it's my little pet theory, most just something that I, personally, would really like to see happen.  I'm probably being far too optimistic, but hey, it passes the time, right?  I don't actually necessarily believe that this is how it's going to happen.  But I think it ties in nicely.

At the end, Harry becomes the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.  I know he wants to become an Auror, now.  But in OotP, Harry taught the D.A., and was apparently very good at it.  During the course of the book, it mentioned how Harry enjoyed setting up lesson plans and how he apparently felt good when his, you know, student body succeeded in mastering a particularly difficult spell.  He's obviously got a talent for teaching and likes to do it.  Plus, if he defeats Voldemort, how much call will there be for Aurors?  (I'm sure there will always be dark wizards, but certainly not the amount that there is now and was in the past...at least for the time being.)  Also, it's possible, to me at least, that after defeating Voldemort, Harry may be sort of burnt out on an Auror's job.  And with Voldemort gone, so curse on the DADA teaching position will probably be voided.

I really like the idea of the book having an epilogue, giving us a glimpse of life after LV.  And I thikn that it would be a particularly rewarding end if Harry became the school's DADA teacher.  (And probably head of Gryffindor house.)

Meh, not the best worded theory ever.  But I'm hot and tired and my brains are kind of toasted from reading a bunch of HP stuff today.  Can't wait for Friday night/Saturday morning!

A thought related to irongargoyle's entry about Harry not being able to kill Voldemort, because it doesn't seem like something JKR would have her hero do. I've been thinking about this theory for a while, and as far as putting theories out there, it's now or never, right? :)
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So.

( Spoilers for book six and leaked info on who RAB is! )

Here is my theory concerning the ending of Deathly Hallows...

( Why I think Voldemort will not die )

I was thinking about HP&GoF the other day and specifically Fred and George. I remembered the bet they'd made with Bagman at the World Cup that one team would win but the other would get the snitch (I can't remember which was which as I don't have the book handy at the moment). How could they have possibly predicted this? They bet all the money they had on it but how could they be so sure that they were right? After all, they didn't know that Bagman would be so difficult about it afterwards so it is obvious they had no means of 'seeing into the future'.

Also, I think Mrs Weasley says that they only scraped a handful of OWL's each. How come they're so talented when it comes to inventing products for their joke shop but they didn't do very well in the exams?

Correct me if I'm wrong as I can't check the book for any of the facts right now!

So I just got home from The Movie and thought I'd make a few comments...

( Spoilers if you haven't seen it. )

Anyone else? :)

Current Mood: giddy

So, like everyone in the whole world, I'm rereading most of the books. I read them in order last summer, so I'm just reading what I feel like now, skipping around - so far, 5, 3, 6, then probably 2 and half of 6 again.

Anyhow, rereading 3, I was struck by the big deal made out of Wormtail's life debt to Harry. I'm sure everyone, like me, is assuming that this will somehow be resolved by Wormtail dying in 7 to Harry's benefit, possibly while saving his life. ( But what about other life debts? )

( And another, unrelated life debt question )

To the person who just posted,

These spoilers have already been proven to be false.

You are an attention whore, and it's sad you feel the need to do something like this because you have no life and no self-esteem. You may think you're being "cool" and really pulling one over, but it's really everybody else who realizes how sad you are and what mental issues you must have.

You are banned, and the community is now on moderated posting.

As much as I f-ing HATE myspace, I love Harry Potter even more.

http://www.myspace.com/blackcurtain

They are having FREE screenings of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix JULY 28TH at 7pm in Portland, Sacramento, Dallas, Raleigh, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Orlando.

All you have to do is go to that link, add blackcurtain, put them somewhere in your top friends, and print your front page to get in.

My boyfriend and I were just talking recently about my wanting to see John Mayer and Ben Folds together this summer and how no one awesome ever comes to our area. And then this happens. We're going to the screening in Orlando.

Who else is going?

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Survive, David Bowie

While rereading books 1-6 Ive noticed many things that indicate foreshadowing. Mostly little things from books 1 2 and 3 that play out in 4 5 and 6. J.k. Rowling is a genious. One thing stood out to me was on pg. 260 of Sorcerer's Stone, when Harry, Hermione, Neville, and Draco are serving detention with Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest and Harry has his encounter with the centaurs. Afterwords Harry says:

"Firenze saved me, but he shouldn't have done so. . . . Bane was furious . . . he was talking about interfering with what the planets say is going to happen. . . . They must show that Voldemort's coming back. . . . Bane thinks Firenze should have let Voldemort kill me. . . . I suppose that's written in the stars as well."

Possible foreshadowing of the prophecy in OoTP? Perhaps even of book 7's outcome?

Has anyone else come across interesting things such as this while rereading the books?

Not much longer to wait now =)

I'm halfway through OotP, and noticed a few lines that might shed some light on the "how many students are at Hogwarts?" discussion.

On page 218-219, of the American Hardcover of OotP, Seamus is telling Harry that his "Mam" didn't want him back at Hogwarts. And Harry retorts: "If you've got a problem sharing a dormitory with me, go and ask McGonagall if you can be moved..."

Where would he be moved to, if not to another of his year's dormitories?

There must be at least two.

Current Location: bear's house
Current Mood: curious

WOMBATs are crazy-making. That symbol on the spine of the UK children's edition is even worse. Put them together, and I don't trust anything I get out of it. So this is almost certainly nothing, but since I already went and opened up Paint...

The Deathly Hallows deluxe edition art has been released...

( Rather large picture under cut + spoilers. )

I had the strangest Potter-related dream last night and I had to share.

First allow me to say that I am (by all accounts) a horrible driver in real life. In this dream, I was out hanging out with Hermione and I didn't drive because I'm not legally allowed to (because I'm a bad driver) so Hermione drove. Drunk. In this dream, I was a random student at Hogwarts (sometimes I was actually there, sometimes I was just kinda watching) and we were on vacation...down the street from where I live in the States. Anyways, I must have spent a night hanging out with Hermione because she was drunk out of her pretty little head. And she was driving the Weasley's big blue Ford Angelia. But on the left side of the road, like you do in the States. WEIRD. Anyways, she's driving on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic, she's driving like a drunk person. At some point she crashes into this huge chain linked fence (which actually exists in the real-life road down which we were driving in the dream) and we land on the other side of the street. We're on the right side of the road, she crashes into the fence (also on the right side of the road), and we land on the LEFT side of the road. Don't ask me how. That's just how it happened. We get back to where we're staying (the entrance to which was a giant tree trunk), I'm wondering why we didn't just fly or apparate, and we're led into this little room (probably hiding from McGonogal, who was probably there to supervise?) and I saw this staff of sorts. It was made from what looked like a thin fence post, it was a cobalt blue color, and had a blue orb on top. It was splintered into seven pieces and had to be put back together. McGonogal kept wondering where Harry was, because she had to get the weapon (this staff/orb thing) to Harry so he could fix it and defeat Voldemort.

I don't know, either. No Ron, no Ginny, no twins, no one but McGonogal, Hermione, and a mention of Harry.

I hope this is allowed because it amused me to no end, and I can't wait till the book/movie come out.

Current Mood: amused

Well this might have been posted before, but I'm rereading the series [backwards, actually] and just read GoF a few weeks ago and am watching the film now and I thought of something that had occurred to me while reading GoF and never got around to posting ... Possible spoilers for HBP, I guess? And GoF which really shouldn't be a problem by now ...

( Snape Theory )

So I'm re-reading through the books before the summer events commence, and I re-stumbled across something that I know has been addressed previously, by the HP community in general... but i'm STILL not entirely clear on the number of students at hogwarts.

I only ask because while I was re-reading PoA, Harry was at a Quidditch match against Slytherin and observed "200 hundred Slytherin supporters". I ran very generous numbers... and even with GENEROUS head counts of the students... 200 hundred is FAR too many. There are 5 Gryffindor boys in Harry's year... But let's be generous and say there's an average of 8 boys in each year. Multiply that by two, to include the girls -- 16, times 7 -- 112 in each house (again, being generous), times 4 houses. That's 448. 200!? that's near half the school! There's no way half the school was supporting Slytherin in the Quidditch match. I did some research and finally found an essay on this exact question on the HP Lexicon. Seems pretty conclusive... but i was wondering if JK has ever addressed this issue, and I just was unable to find it.

Two more questions regarding the book covers... Not really spoilerish, ( but just in case )

And since I'm here... I'm very excited! I'm keeping it under control, though. Trying, at least.

Actually, while I'm here... I'm on Guam, which is on the other side of the International Date Line from the mainland US. I've been here for 2 book releases (well, while it's been WILDLY popular) -- and they NEVER make a big deal about how we'll be the FIRST PLACE in America to get to open the books. I don't understand WHY. Especially for the 7th book.

There's never been any release party, none of this staying up all night celebrating with a midnight release. NOTHING. It's quite frustrating.

I wish I were going to be in the states for this release -- But if any of you want to come here for the release, I'd be happy to show you around, be your tour guide, and to camp in front of the store. *hopeful smile*

;) either way... just wanted to share my frustration (and questions, don't forget)... and to remind you all on the mainland how lucky you are to be part of a large community. :)

Current Location: bear's house