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 Aug 15 2004, 01:44 PM
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1. Harry spends his shorted time at the Dursleys so far
2. We learn more about the circumstances of voldemorts birth
3. Nymphadora Tonks will be back and will possibly play an important role. I love Tonks, she's my favorite new character. Will she play a large role in future books and/or in Harry's life? J.K. Rowling: Tonks is hanging around. I really like her, too. 4. Moaning myrtle will be back in the story
5.Narcissa Malfoy will play a bigger role now Lucius is in Azkaban
6. We will find out what memory Dudley re-lived when the dementor attacked him in the beginning of OotP.
7. Wormtail will reappear in book six.
8. Harry will see more romance in his life.
9. There will be a new minister for magic.
10. There is a graveyard in Hogwarts and it becomes crucial in book six.
What do you think about the graveyard? Maybe Harry's parents were buried there???? Basic facts The title was once considered by author J.K. Rowling for the name of book 2, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which incidentally "holds some very important clues to the ultimate end of the series." She admits "crucial pieces of information" to be revealed in book 6 were actually pulled from that story very early on, as it wasn't the "proper home" for them. The opening chapter, Rowling has stated, is actually reborn from discarded early chapters removed from the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. We may see a more explicit scene of Voldemort killing Harry's parents. Some things in the list below could also be applied to book 7 but I will post it in both sections. Summary: These are facts straight from the mouth of J.K. Rowling, and were gathered from numerous online chats with her. Everything here is confirmed. Article: Facts about the book These are facts straight from the mouth of J.K. Rowling, and were gathered from numerous online chats with her. Everything here is confirmed. * Marks Evans is a nobody. * The Half-Blood Prince is not Mark, Tom Riddle, Voldemort or Harry. *Arthur Weasley won't be the new Minister of Magic. * Harry is a half-blood. * Ginny's real name is Ginevra Weasley. * By the ends of books 6 and 7 "you'll have all the back story you'll need", says JK Rowling, and a prequel will not be necessary. * There will be a new Minister of Magic, no more Mr. Fudge. * We will find out what happened to Hagrid's half brother Grawp. He will be a bit more controllable in book 6. * The Dursleys are in the next book, but Harry's stay with them will be the shortest yet. In book 5 he stayed for 4 weeks, so we know his stay will be less than 4 weeks. * Cho Chang will not be a romantic interest of Harry in Book 6, however Harry will be giving and receiving more kisses says JK. * In books 6 and 7 we will find out exactly why JK killed off Sirius. * Harry becomes even more powerful in book 6. * In books 6 and 7 we will find out why Dumbledore trusts Snape. * We will find out what happened to Wormtail aka Peter Pettigrew. * More about the animosity between Snape and Sirius will be revealed in the last 2 books. * JK has said that giving away the form of Snape's boggart and patronus says too much. We'll definitely find out what Snape's worst fear is, and it'll be important. * Hermione and Draco will NOT end up together in book 6 or 7. * We will find out what exactly Dudley saw when he looked at the dementors. * The reason Voldemort and Harry both didn't die when Voldemort tried to kill Harry, will be revealed. * We will see more of Draco's mother, Narcissa Malfoy, now that Lucius is busy. * We'll learn more about Harry's scar in the last 2 books. * Moaning Myrtle will make an appearance again, as will Tonks. * More about Voldemort's birth will be revealed, thus helping us understand why he is so evil. * Muggles begin to notice "more and more odd" occurrences in book 6, says JK. * The wizarding world is really at war in the sixth book. * Harry will tell his dearest friends about the prophecy after it sinks in to him. * We will learn more about Harry's relatives, including his grandparents (though JK says they aren't really important to the story). * We will find out what happened to Sirius's motorbike. * Book 6 will be shorter than the 5th book (or at least JK's 99% sure, but will not swear on her children's lives) possibly because she said this about OotP when she was writing that book and that turned out to be huge. * There will be no "new" nationalities of children at Hogwarts. Hogwarts is a British school, and JK says that adding foreigners for the sake of it is not in her plans. * During an interview, when JKR was asked in which Hogwarts room she'd like to be for 1 hour, she said it would be a room in which Harry has been before, but doesn't know its importance. Yet. (this could have happened in book 5, but we're unsure). * It's very important in the plot that Harry has his mother's eyes, and that her wand was very good for charms. * During an interview for Kids BBC, Victor Greensteet (reporter) asked Rowling if Harry would have a dragon for a pet. This is what she replied: "You can't tame a dragon, no matter what Hagrid thinks. It's simply impossible. So no. He has more common sense. He MAY have a different pet in the future, but for now, I won't say anything else". (This could have been Buckbeak, but I'm sure we can expect more pets). * In the same interview for Kids BBC, the reporter asked J. K. if Harry had ever used the internet, and this is what she had to say: "No. They (the Dursleys) won't let him go near Dudley's computer, and Dudley is the only one who has a computer. They hit him if he gets too near to the keyboard. So the answer would be No. I use it a lot, but Harry doesn't. Wizards don't really need to go on the web. They have an even better way to find out what's happening in the outside world, which I think is a lot more fun than the Internet, but I'm going to keep quiet on this one." * The choice between what's right and what's easy will be a pillar of the plot in Harry's last 2 years at Hogwarts. * Harry's parents' profession will be a big part of the plot. * Something HUGE will be revealed about Lily Potter. this is from newsround JK Rowling gave fans some tantalising titbits about the future Potter books at her reading at the Edinburgh Children's Book Festival on Sunday. She said she was well into writing book six. She said she was "just over halfway through it". She added it was her favourite book so far. Click here to see pix from the JK reading "Of course I am the only one who has read it and I think it's rather good." Two key questions She did not give much away about book six, which will be called Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but she said a lot of questions will be answered in it. She also revealed there were two key questions about the whole plot that she had never been asked. The first is Why didn't Voldemort die when he tried to kill Harry? JK said that in the end of book four, Voldemort had said he had taken various steps against dying, but we should be wondering exactly what he did. Dumbledore knows more! The second question is Why didn't Dumbledore try to kill Voldemort in that scene at the end of book five? Dumbledore gave a kind of reason to Voldemort but it's not the real answer, and that Dumbledore knows something more. JK said if we are wondering about the overall plot, we should be concentrating on those two questions. Squib? She also tantalisingly answered a question about Aunt Petunia. When asked, JK said no, Petunia is not a squib, as she is muggle-born, but...... and left the sentence hanging. She said we will find out a bit more about her in the other books and that there's more to Petunia than meets the eye! She also revealed some more general snippets of information, including: Aberforth Dumbledore is the barman in the Hog's Head Dumbledore's patronus is a phoenix Grawp will be more controllable in the sixth book We will see a bit more of Rita Skeeter There will be a new character called McLagan Harry does NOT have a godmother The full transcript of the Q&A session will be available on JK's official website soon. hope you enjoyed reading this :D |
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Aug 15 2004, 01:50 PM
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Hugest HP Fan Group: Members Posts: 4,050 Joined: 22-February 04 From: Southampton, United Kingdom. Member No.: 23 |
CLAP CLAP!
GO RONWEASLEYROCKS GO GO GO!!! |
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Aug 15 2004, 01:52 PM
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Hugest HP Fan Group: Members Posts: 2,286 Joined: 22-February 04 From: UK Member No.: 14 |
LOL!!! well i didnt realise before I posted this that there are bits and pieces of it all over the site but it is good to have all the information together on one topic really. *blushes*
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Aug 15 2004, 02:51 PM
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Huge HP Fan Group: Members Posts: 1,052 Joined: 22-February 04 From: 127.0.0.1 Member No.: 21 |
Firstly, good list there. A few comments ..
IMHO, Wormtail was searching for the HBP, this was going to be in my fan-fic but I'm far too busy [and lazy] to carry it on.
I seriously doubt that the Potter's would be buried there .. Harry would almost certianly have been told of it .. imagine if he had just stumbled across it .. I know I wouldn't be too happy. Also, on the whole graveyard idea in general, does anyone else think that it seems almost a clumsy insertion by JK? Surely in five years Harry would have ... a)seen it b)or at least been told about it from either someone from the faculty or a fellow studnt Even some vague references in some of the other books would have been good enough. Didn't she say once that she didn't like to just 'spring stuff on the reader' without sufficient clues? Where was the background information about the graveyard. Graveyard Role I think that it is where the ghosts' bodies are buried -jmho And somehow (perhaps some blurb on a headstone) we'll find out more about the Bloody Baron and why Nearly Hedless Nick 'respects' him so much.
Very, very interesting .. but I have no idea as to what they might be ... Sorry, too lazy to comment on everything else. :P |
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Aug 15 2004, 02:56 PM
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Hugest HP Fan Group: Members Posts: 4,050 Joined: 22-February 04 From: Southampton, United Kingdom. Member No.: 23 |
RWR you post that *everywhere*- good on you
So is JK saying there is a graveyard at Hogwarts.....? i dont understand! (i seem to be saying that a lot lately!) |
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Aug 15 2004, 04:41 PM
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Hugest HP Fan Group: Members Posts: 2,286 Joined: 22-February 04 From: UK Member No.: 14 |
apparantly so. Thats a good idea about the ghosts estel and if Moaning Myrtle comes into it again maybe she was buried there and there is more to her than we think (not saying shes the HBP lol cos then the title would be half blood princess!!!) Also maybe we will find out more about Peeves? The Bloody baron intrigues me definately and why he is respected so much.
At first when I heard a graveyard would be included in book 6 I thought of where Voldemorts father was buried but that wouldnt be in hogwarts - now I know that is where the graveyard is. |
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Aug 15 2004, 08:00 PM
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Big HP Fan Group: Members Posts: 917 Joined: 22-February 04 From: Australia Member No.: 16 |
Good work RWR!! The reference to Moaning Myrtle could indicate that yes, the CoS will be revisited (maybe that's where the HBP resides???) because the only entrance we know of, is via MM's bathroom.
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Aug 16 2004, 12:58 AM
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Hugest HP Fan Group: Members Posts: 5,658 Joined: 22-February 04 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 13 |
Well done RWR! that must've taken a while... :clap:
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Aug 16 2004, 04:24 AM
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RONWEASLEYROCKS that was a -totally- awesome post!!! great job finding all that stuff! it gave us ALOT of clues. the graveyard is weird, i guess the ghosts bodies could be buried there but what makes the graveyard so improtant if it just tells about the ghosts past? i mean im not say that it woulant be a cool thing to read a chapter on like the bloody barons past (because we know so little about him) but what makes the graveyard so improtant?? maybe...you know how Jo said that the wizarding world will actually BE at war?! well wat if the ghosts play an important part in the war? i mean its not like they can die again, right? and they could be sent out as spies! (cuz they can like walk through walls n stuff) i dont know if it sounds crazy to you but its my therie lol tell me what you think.
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Aug 16 2004, 06:36 AM
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Hugest HP Fan Group: Members Posts: 2,286 Joined: 22-February 04 From: UK Member No.: 14 |
well Ive always hoped that in the last book there would be a sort of war at hogwarts. It always made sense to me with my theory that voldemort/tom riddle is the heir of slytherin and I think Harry is the heir of gryffindor and they are sort of ending godric and salazar's fight which began all those years ago. In the war I thought that dumbledore would require the help of the house elves (200 of them), Hagrid's creatures (blast ended skrewts etc), Grawp (and maybe more), the ghosts (in particular peeves - to add a bit of comedy for us!),the centuars willing to help (firenze and more??), the students willing to help, the teachers, the order...etc. Voldemort would have the DEs, the giants, the dementors and whatever else he managed to find.
But thats just what I want to happen.... |
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Aug 16 2004, 07:15 AM
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Hugest HP Fan Group: Members Posts: 4,050 Joined: 22-February 04 From: Southampton, United Kingdom. Member No.: 23 |
an Epic Battle....like LOTR, nice B)
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Aug 16 2004, 07:16 AM
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Hugest HP Fan Group: Members Posts: 2,286 Joined: 22-February 04 From: UK Member No.: 14 |
erm in lotr they just fight constantly lol :lol:
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Aug 16 2004, 07:21 AM
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Hugest HP Fan Group: Members Posts: 4,050 Joined: 22-February 04 From: Southampton, United Kingdom. Member No.: 23 |
And i dribble....but moving swiftly on....
I too would like to know why the Bloody Baron is so respected |
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Aug 16 2004, 02:55 PM
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Big HP Fan Group: Members Posts: 788 Joined: 12-July 04 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Member No.: 491 |
Thanks RWR - great summary :clap: There is some very intriguing clues inthere. Now we will have something new to think about :D
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Aug 16 2004, 03:02 PM
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Great post. It nicely sums up all of the info that we've learned on book 6. Though I must say I'm sad to see it's only half-done. Could be a year+ before we see book 6. Maybe you won't see anymore posts from me for another 10 months or so!
Oh and I can't see a huge battle at Hogwarts just because DD can't ask students to fight against Death Eaters. He knows about the prophecy w/ Harry - but how could he enlist students? If he really did create "Dumbeldore's Army" what would happen to those who didn't join (i.e. Lucius)? Would he lock him up in Hogwarts? I dunno... |
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Aug 16 2004, 06:59 PM
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yeah i can't see DD and the teachers letting a war go on inside the castle...that would just be weird...and what about the 1st years, i mean most of the kids over 3rd year can take care of them-selves but its not like a death eater can't take on a bunch of 1st years. but im not saying it wouldnt be wicked cool, with all the secret passages and the ghosts to help and the paintings could carry information from one another. it WOULD be pretty exiting but higly unlikely, oh well.
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Aug 17 2004, 08:29 PM
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-THERIES
-Sirius is really dead :cry: wahh Im sorry to say it -Snape will not get the job in the 6th OR 7th book -the DADA teacher will be a new character in the book (I think so because in every other book its been someone we've never met before) also I think it will be a GOOD teacher its about time we had someone good dont u think? (other than Lupin of course) -POSSIBILITES FOR THE HBP -#1 guess-Lupin -2nd guess-someone totally new -3rd guess-Hagrid -4th guess-NH Nick -QUESTIONS -when will Jo finally finish the 6th book?! I cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <_< -how long will it be from the time Jo actually finishes her book to the time the book is in stores? (I hope not too long!! :() thats all for now, tell me what you think. |
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Aug 18 2004, 04:35 AM
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rwr - thanks for posting all of that. i am forever in your debt.
i was having a conversation with a mate of mine the other day and he asked me if i had heard any rumours/facts about hbp (he's a BIG hp fan but is currently on tour with his band and unable to make it to a computer) and i didn't really have anything to tell him. now i can tell him everything you've posted and make him a happy bunny. thanks again. :wub: p.s i love your harry and his wheezy icon :D |
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Aug 18 2004, 06:15 AM
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lol holly thanks :lol:
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I'll remember that ;) |
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Aug 18 2004, 08:54 AM
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im still wondering about the graveyard, hmm...what could make it so important?
P.S. RWR i was wondering if i could copy some of your icons? would you mind? |
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