51. Harry Potter-Look what's coming! Think what's coming.

Here's a movie trailer for Order of the Phoenix.





And my predictions or thoughts on the 7th book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:

#1. Dumbledore told Harry in book 3 that his release of Peter Pettigrew was magic at its deepest, that Peter was indebted to him, and that this bond would come to fruition in the future. I'm hoping it does and I'll be deeply disappointed if it turns out that Dumbledore's promise was empty drama. What I'm hoping is that Peter is responsible for Snape's demise.

#2. Florian Fortescue has gone missing from Diagon Alley (book 6, I think). And we know that one of the portraits of an old headmaster at Hogwarts was a Fortescue. I'm wondering if Voldemort has taken up residence in Florian's place to have access to a portrait that can now spy on what's happening in the Hogwart's headmaster's office.

#3. Where will Harry find the Horcruxes? There are 6 (or possibly 5 if the last one was not completed). hc 1-The diary-ruined. hc 2-The ring-broken. hc 3-The locket.

The RAB inscription on the fake locket has been discussed in other circles (and yes, I exaggerated when I said I didn't ever pay attention to the scuttlebutt on HP fan sites--but I haven't been around them in a while). So I agree with those who suggest that one of the horcruxes is the locket last seen in Sirius's house (Phoenix headquarters). A possible complication may be that Kreacher has stolen it.

Other horcruxes?
hc 4-The cup? Could it be in Godric's Hollow? (My lovely Webster's International shows that "hallow" is a variant of Hollow--perhaps the deathly hallows are the hollows where the horcruxes are hidden?) Voldemort planned to use something for his final horcrux when he killed HP. So he might have dropped it at Godric's Hollow and not gotten it back yet. (But would it even be a horcrux or was the magic spell unfinished?)

hc 5-The snake. With Voldemort. HP's parseltongue will come in handy, no doubt.

One more horcrux?
hc 6-Don't know-possibly Voldemorts' award for special services on hand at Hogwarts? Seems unlikely, though. Dumbledore thought it would be a possession of one of the original Hogwart's founders. And there are interesting theories you can read about at Mugglenet. (I like the one that suggests the horcruxes are interrelated-so Voldemort would have used the cup to get to the locket, the locket to get to ? etc. But then how did RAB get to the locket? Did RAB have the cup and leave it at his home-now OOTP headquarters, too?)


#4. Voldemort has wanted to come back to Hogwarts for quite a while. I want to know why. I don't think it's just to retrieve a horcrux (he could have had Snape do that), or to release the basilisk (killed in book 2). Dumbledore suggests that he was looking for more ancient magic to learn. I'm hoping that Harry (or more likely Hermione) finds some special magic (besides love) deeply hidden that could be useful, something that Voldemort suspected was there but couldn't find (because of his black heart?). Or perhpas the "deathly hallows" are the ghosts themselves and Rowena Ravenclaw or the Bloody Baron holds a deep secret?

#5. Last prediction ( or not): Harry finds a way to unleash Voldemort memories transferred to him in the lightning bolt incident. Remember-he felt somehow that he knew Tom Riddle, that he recognized the name and felt friendly toward him-a shadow of memory? Perhaps there's more to find "within himself" as Dumbledore is always saying (only it's not love this time either).