book 7
What we know will happen:
We will find out what Dudley saw in Order of the Phoenix when he was attacked by the dementor.
We will find out the true identity of R.A.B., though most fans are quite sure it's Sirius's brother, Regulus.
We will see Viktor Krum again.
We will find out a little bit more about Harry's Grandparents.
We will find out what happened to Sirius' flying motorcycle, "but the real sleuths among us might be able to guess." Care to hazard a guess?
Wormtail's life debt to Harry will come into play, somehow.
We will find out what Lily and James did for a living. This piece of information is "important to a later plot." Possibly something Harry finds out during his visit to Godric's Hollow?
The shroud that surrounds Snape will fall and we will see where his loyalties truly lie.
One of Harry's classmates will go on to become a teacher, but it isn't "maybe the one you think, hint, hint, hint," and it isn't Ron, either. Our guess is Neville, but we'll see!
We will find out something extremely important about Lily and James and it will have a direct effect on what Harry has to do. And no, conspiracy theorists, it's not that they were actually both working for Voldemort, an idea that sickened Ms. Rowling (see below).
We will see Dolores Umbridge again.
We will see Rita Skeeter again. At the Edinburgh Book Festival, Rowling had this to say: "I actually quite like Rita. She is loathsome - morally, she's horrible - but I can't help admiring her toughness. She is very determined to do the job and there is something quite engaging about that. There is more to come on Rita."
The last word of the book is "scar," though that may change with future edits.
We will find out something "incredibly important" about Lily Potter.
Harry's eye color will come into play. Also, JKR said that "he has his mother's eyes and that's very important in a future book."
There is "more to the Sorting Hat" than what was presented in the first six books; we will "find out what it becomes" in book seven.
Although Aunt Petunia is neither a witch nor a Squib, "there is a little bit more to her than meets the eye," and we will find out what that is.
According to Jo, "one character got a reprieve, but I have to say two die that I didn't intend to die. A price has to be paid. We are dealing with pure evil. They don't target the extras, do they? They go for the main characters, or I do."
On February 13 2007
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