SPOILERS! Harry Potter theory thread.

[specnsadie]

i heard this really sad ending, and i really doubt it will happen because even though JKR does kill people in her books, i don't think she'd go that drastic. well here it is:
they find all the horocruxes except one and somewhere in this snape kills ron, and then harry and hermonie meet voldemort and voldemort tells them that hermonie is the last horocruxe and then hermonie tells harry to kill her, and he does, and because voldemort does not expect this harry kills voldemort.
again, its a very sad theory and i doubt it's true, just telling what i heard

[adam]

Its very dangerous to put part of your soul ina thing that can think for itself. Thats Dubledores words. (I am paraphrasing)

Also Hermione is exceptionaly clever so I dont think Voldy would risk it. Also wouldnt she have to be around at the time that Voldy kills someone in order to do the spell?

In other words, no!

[Raskolnikov]

Yeah scar is a subjective clue it can mean anything.
I didnt really catch anything since i was thinking of going to eat big BLTs at Carrows Kitchen after seeing POA.
thx for the info Adam

[Menack]

I think Dumbledore is deadm and though I was kinda confused at the beginning now it all makes sense. Think about it, Dumbledore was very old, and he was going to die of old age anyway. What I'm saying is that leaving him alive after the books ended wouldn't have been very clever as you'd assume he was going to die shortly after anyway. What confused me the most is why kill him in the sixth book and not the seventh, but then I figured the seventh would be too convoluted with shocking revelations and of course many other deaths, so Dumbledore's death wouldn¡t have had the necesary impact. I do believe he left some kind of mesage to Harry, something around the likes of "If you're seeing this it means I'm dead" sort of thingy.
lso, I'm praying for Snape to truly be evil. Really, making us believe he was the bad guy in the first books, then convince us he was good only to show us he actually was the bad guy all along would be a clever move for Rowling to make. The only thing I can't have an explanation for and I think will be explained in the last book is why Dumbledore trusted Snape so much, and never ever doubt his intentions, and why did he make him the Defense against Dark Arts teacher that very same year, knowing it could make him become evil again...assuming he did redeemed himself somewwhere along the path.

[Gideon]

menack said:

The only thing I can't have an explanation for and I think will be explained in the last book is why Dumbledore trusted Snape so much, and never ever doubt his intentions, and why did he make him the Defense against Dark Arts teacher that very same year, knowing it could make him become evil again...assuming he did redeemed himself somewwhere along the path.

Well in the sixth book, when conversing with Narcissa Malfoy (and was it Bellatrix Lestrange as well?) Snape did point out that Dumbledore had a habit of being very trusting, and was prepared to give people a number of chances, and tended to look for the best in everybody. If we are to assume that Snape is indeed evil (although personally, I'm hoping that he isn't, and that it's a trick by Rowling) then it would seem that at least part of the reason that Dumbledore trusted Snape so much is because it was in his nature - he seems the sort of person to believe there's some good in anybody (with the exception of Voldemort) no matter how evil they have been, or are.

But again, I'm hoping that it turns out that Snape is really good. I've always quite liked him, and I really felt sorry for him when Harry went into the Penseive in the fifth book and witnessed his father and Sirius picking on him. I get the impression that that may have been something that often happened, particularly in the first six years, before James started going out with Lily (and, seemingly, grew up a bit.) Snape did nothing to them in that scene; James was really the one who started it all, and although Snape was nasty as well (towards Lily), I went away from that chapter disliking James quite a lot.

[BritishHomeStores]

I never liked Snape, but I hope he is good. Even if he is evil, I don't think he is the kind of person who would work for Voldemort. He is quite dangerous, I think he could become worse than Voldemort if he wanted.

[adam]

Snape used to be a Death Eater remember. He DID used to work for Voldemort.

I also am not sure if Snape being evil is a bluff (ie. he is actually good) or a double bluff (ie. You where ment to think he is actually good but he is actually evil as it was shown in the first place) . I hope its a bluff but I am having my douts. I still think that Rowling regrets making paintings talk as that makes death less cut off from people. Otherwise she would have had Harry talking to his parents, then Sirius then Dubledore via painting. I think she wished that she hadnt have had that in the books.

Aparently the reason Dumble dore trusts Snape so much is that he told Dumble dore he didnt mean to get James and Lilly killed and he didnt know that by telling Voldemort he would kill them. What a rubbish excuse. I also wondered why Dumbledore let Snape teach Defence against the Dark Arts.

I am still saerching to find out where I saw the picture of the unbreakable vow being performed. it is bugging me. I was sure it was on one of the books.

[lazerxangel]

I'm confused abou the Hocruxes. How are they supposed to destroy them? Stick a basilisk fang through them like the diary? I don't think so...

[adam]

lazerxangel said:

I'm confused abou the Hocruxes. How are they supposed to destroy them? Stick a basilisk fang through them like the diary? I don't think so...

Good point. I dont think it said in the book. Probably just hit 'em with a spell.

[lazerxangel]

This is a bit off-topic, but do any of you read Harry Potter fanfics?

[BritishHomeStores]

I do, but not very often.

[adam]

I dont read fanfics.

[specnsadie]

nope, i don't know what they are

[adam]

I was thinking about school because I'm going back soon and I thought of Hogwarts and I thought 'Wouldn't it be cool if we had Hogwarts lessons?'. Then an idea hit me: What if we renames lessons after Hogwarts lessons to make them seem more exciting. It is sad but I don't care. I am going to fill in a spare time table with Hogwarts lesson that correspond to Hogwarts ones:


English - Charms (Flitwick Head of Ravenclaw)
R.E./ Religious studies - Defense against the Dark Arts (Merrythought/Quirril/Lockhart/Lupin/Umbridge/Moody/Snape [Head of Slitherin])
Math - Artithmacy (Vector)
Science - potions (Snape Head of Slitherin/Slughorn Head of Slitherin)
P.S.H.E./ Health class - Care of Magical Creachures (Grubbleyplank/Hagrid)
ICT - Divination (Trewany/Firneeze)
Food - Herbology (Sprout Head of Hufflepuff)
Geography - Astronomy
History - History of Magic (Binns [ghost])
French and other languages - Ancient Runes
Art and Design Technology and wood craft - Transfiguration (McGonnagal Head of Griffindor Deputy Head)
Drama - Muggle Studies
P.E. - Quidditch (Madam Hooch Quidditch ref)
Vocational courses/ out of school learning - apparation (Wilkie Twycross)
Sport Clubs - Quidditch Practice (Wood as Griffinor captain Flint Slitherin Captain)
Other clubs (Gob Stones/Charms Club)

Houses requirements
Griffindor- For sporty and brave people
Ravenclaw - For boffins and geeks
Slitherin - for goths and rockers and people who like to wear black a lot
Hufflepuff - Nice kind honest people

Assembly - Great Hall
Lunch - House Tables
Break/Recess - School grounds/Lake
Form/Registration - Common room
End of Day - Relax in Common room.

Those are the equivalents and notice the updated houses and school events. the only problem is I cant think what to put Dance class and Music class as. There are no more Hogwarts lessons! Dumbledore says that music is a magic beyond all they do at Hogwarts. Yoou could use this as a code to discuss classes although I see no point!

[lazerxangel]

O.o
But it's still an intersting idea...