Madness is about to ensue

[sarahxjane]

Potential Spoilers
Read with your own discretion.

With just over 4 days until the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows... most fans ( such as myself ) are anxious for it to come out.
Our minds have already been forming ideas of how the story will end.


What do you think is going to happen?

Who might die?
( Jo mentioned that more than 2 characters are susposed to die )


Will Voldemort's evil finally be extinguished?


Who is RAB?


What or who could the other horcruxes be?


Is Snape good or evil?





Post your thoughts and theories.



Also, if you don't like Harry Potter... please don't be an idiot and post.

This is for fans only, thank you.

[Tibs]

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Dumbledore dies.

[V3T_ddrultramix3]

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Dumbledore dies...

...of old age. Yes, I know.

[/moves to literature]

[sarahxjane]

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[/moves to literature]

OOPS.
X____X

[V3T_ddrultramix3]

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OOPS.
X____X

Don't worry, I've done it too.

[Relambrien]

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On another website's forum, someone posted the following list of potential endings. Note that these aren't spoilers, but an adaptation of various types of well-known ending styles. I do not claim to own any of the work in the following quote.

With the new movie out and the book coming out in a little over a week, I was wonder what everyone's thoughts are about Harry surviving the last book and if they've changed since the last book came out.

As I see it there are 7 possibilities.

1. Harry lives and Voldemort and another badguy dies. The traditional happy ending.
2. Harry lives, and Voldemort dies, but Harry loses a friend in the process. The victory at a cost ending.
3. Harry dies but one of his friends (Neville or Ron) kills Voldemort. This is a more classical Beowolf style ending where the hero dies, but passes the torch on to the next generation. Or it could be Harry dies and one of the cronies turns on voldemort.
4. The reverse of 3; Harry killing Voldemort and one of his cronies kills Harry.
5. Harry dies and voldemort lives. This would be the tragic ending but leaves the story open for Rowling or another author to pick up.
6. Harry and Voldemort live, two secondary characters die. This would probably be the strangest ending, that which alludes to an unending conflict between the two. For example Voldemort might almost kill Harry, but Harry because he has some of Voldemort's power would be able to come back. Or it could be something like Voldemort reforming or Harry crossing over, but I see both as unlikely.
7. Harry and Voldemort both turn their wands on each other. (End of Story). This is the Princess Bride (book) ending, better known as the Lady or the Tiger Ending.


So which is it? I'm rooting for number 1 myself. However I see 2 or 3 as the most likely possibilities as the trend for happy endings hasn't been as popular lately. It would also give a chance for underdogs like Ron or Neville to finally have their day in the sun. 7 would probably be the most interesting ending because people will always be talking about it. At the end of 6, there was a controvery about Snape being a good guy or a bad guy. That controversy will likely be put to an end in this book, but not knowing the outcome between Harry and He-Who-I-Can't-Be-Bothered-To-Remember-His-Name would also keep the fans interested for a long time thereafter.


So are there any other predictions for book 7? Like Dumbeldor coming back as a ghost? Part of me says yes he comes back and stays on as the headmaster, part of me says he stays dead because in classical literature, the hero has to figure things out for himself. He loses his father figure or mentor and learns what being a man is really about.

I'll refer to the types of endings by their number. I see 2, 3, and 7 as the most likely endings. Victory at a cost tends to work well for series like this; you can't just have everything be all happy, but you want it to end positively. Having another main character die is a way to up the tension and make a climactic end to the series.

Ending 3 is the kind of "light out of darkness" ending. All hope seems lost when the hero is defeated, but another person manages to save the world in his stead. This pretty much precludes any possibility for another book in the series involving Harry, which could be something Rowling wants. Also makes things very climactic, if depressing.

Ending 7 is the kind of ending I absolutely hate. Nothing definitive at all. This says to me, "The author couldn't decide what she wanted to do. So here, take an ending that isn't an ending at all." This sort of ending is ridiculously common in other forms of media, though luckily not that prevalent in books. This is because after the climax, there's usually a chapter-long resolution where everyone gets settled back into their lives, or the plot for the next story is foreshadowed. Still, it would be typical for such a hyped and popular series to have this kind of ending, so I still think it's more likely than say, ending six.

[three17s]

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BTW.

If you don't want the book spoiled on you, you might want to leave the internets ASAP.

[sarahxjane]

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Those are really interesting.

I can't even form an idea in my head about what might happen.

At this point, it can go any way that was mentioned in the above.


2, 4 or 5 are the possible endings I would like to see.


I would hate for it to end with them turning the wands on each other and then BAM -- ends.

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Taken from Snagwire



Character Information

* We will find out something "incredibly important" about Lily Potter.
* R.A.B's identity will be revealed.
* We will discover more about Dumbledore's past.
* We will learn with whom Snape's loyalties lie.
* Something will be revealed about Petunia Dursley, although we already know that she is not a Squib.
* We will see a reappearance of Dolores Umbridge: "It's too much fun to torture her not to have another little bit more before I finish." (MuggleNet/Leaky Interview)
* JKR has said "There is a character who does manage, in desperate circumstances, to do magic quite late in life, but that is very rare..."

Plot Information

* Harry will face Voldemort for the final time.
* Harry will be attempting to find and destroy Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes.
* Harry will return to the Dursleys' during the school vacation, but the magical protection Dumbledore arranged will expire when Harry comes of age on his 17th birthday.
* Harry will go to Godric's Hollow.
* The two-way mirror will make a reappearance.
* Fleur and Bill's wedding will occur.
* The fact that Harry "has his mother's eyes" will prove to be an important plot point.
* At least one character will die.


Other

* We will learn the exact reason why some people become ghosts when they die and others do not.
* The final chapter, which has already been written, will detail what happens to the surviving characters.
* There will be no more Quidditch matches

[Relambrien]

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BTW.

If you don't want the book spoiled on you, you might want to leave the internets ASAP.

Probably, yeah. I finished reading book six on the same day I got it (the release date), and then I went to go play an online video game. As soon as I logged in, I found someone spamming (mouse over) "SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE" (in case -someone- still hasn't read it) over and over.

If you're getting the book the day it's released, then just don't turn on your computer until you've finished it. If not...then you'll probably know the ending before you get the book.

[sarahxjane]

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I was on a forum when I found out who killed who in book 6.

At that point, I was 1/3 of the way through.

I know that once I get it, I'm hibernating in my room until I'm done.
I won't even go on certain sites, or talk to a lot of people.

This is the one book I really don't want to be spoiled.

I wanted to wait outside until I got my book, but I heard ( and saw online ) that people tend to yell out who dies and other important information to the poor customers waiting outside the bookstores...


D:


It makes me mad.

[archbishopjabber]

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Alright guys, here are my predictions.

Harry and Ron are going to move to Vermont and attempt fruitlessly to make children.

Hermoine is going to get pregnant and end up living in a trailor with a drunken abusive husband.

And, as for Voldermort. He's going to develop a raging heroin habit and end up having to sell himself to truckers in vacant parking lots in order to upkeep his habit.

And the IQ of anyone who reads this trash will be 15 points lower by the end of the series.

[Relambrien]

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Also, if you don't like Harry Potter... please don't be an idiot and post.

Also, if you don't like Harry Potter... please don't be an idiot and post.

Also, if you don't like Harry Potter... please don't be an idiot and post.

I'm looking at you, archbishopjabber.

[sarahxjane]

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-Sighs-

Some people just need to put their two cents worth in.

[archbishopjabber]

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They are honestly my predictions.

I will give evidence to support each.

The tension between Ron and Harry has been mounting throughout the novels. Simply the way they draw their wands and the endearing tone between the two makes them more than friends but just shy of... something else. Both have had issues with girls... these issues may have been sabotage because they are simply hiding their true nature. They definitely love each other as friends... and there is a thin line which I think in the seventh novel they may cross.

Hermoine is constantly persecuited for being a "mud blood." This may in the seventh novel come to a boil where her self esteem becomes so low that she subjects herself to a miserable life she thinks she "deserves" wasting all her talent.

Voldermort is probably in constant physical pain from the damage Harry caused to him so long age. The mental pain though is far worse, being bested by a baby. It would make sense that he would turn to drugs to cope.

As for the IQ comment. Harry Potter is on a middle school reading level at best, but most of the fans of the books I know are high school aged or adults. By reading way below their reading level they are lowering their potential IQ.

Nough said, I stand by my post.

[Relambrien]

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As for the IQ comment. Harry Potter is on a middle school reading level at best, but most of the fans of the books I know are high school aged or adults. By reading way below their reading level they are lowering their potential IQ.

That's because the series originated what was it, eight years ago now? I remember because I read the first book in the summer of my third grade. I am now in the summer of my eleventh grade. These fans of the series now were around HP's reading level when the series was first released, and I'm not going to stop reading a series I like midway through just because it gets progressively easier to read.