| I'm a long time reader of the series.
I'd like to put up a few counterpoints on this post.
**Dumbledore is dead and gone. The only way a Hogwarts Headmaster fills the office picture frame is when they are truly dead.
**Fawkes is gone as well. The second to last chapter in HBP called "The Phoenix's Lament" ends with Fawkes busting into flames (or apparating for a Phoenix) and leaving Hogwarts for good. Oddly enuf only Pawkes and House Elves can Use magical forms of instantaneous travel within Hogwarts. Now I could see him returning to help Harry in DH, but I doubt the likelihood of this.
**Certain deaths that I'd bank on would be.
-Professor Trelawney
-Percy Weasley
-Gryffindors - Any of them are targets for Death Eaters.
-Nevil's Grandmother. I can't remember her name.
-Cornelius Fudge
-Lucius Malfoy
-Bellatrix Lestrange (killed by Nevil for revenge)
-Voledmort, though I wouldn't bank on him actually dying rather than his essence being captured with some sort of "Arcane Device" to bind him and his power forever, by Arcane Device I am not referring to a Horcrux. To quote Dumbledore - "Tom, Tom you could never understand that death is not the worst thing that can happen to a person."
**Both Draco and Mother Malfoy will either join the Order of the Phoenix or go into their protective custody.
**Fleur's wedding is going to go off with out a hitch, but the honeymoon will be cut short I think with a death in the family. (See above statement about predicted deaths.)
**Nevil won't kill Voldemort. The fact remains that even with prophecies that come true its only a matter of the will of the persons involved with the Prophecy that determines the outcome. The prophecy is invariably about Harry being that the will of the people it was about decided to go for him and his parents. The Longbottoms therefore become non-existent in matters of the prophecy. This is stated by Dumbledore in book 5. I trust in the hidden meanings behind many things within this storyline and I do admit (and so does he) that Dumbledore can be wrong, but in most cases he isn't. Using this deductive reasoning...Harry must be the one to kill Voldemort  |