I created another thread here about number 7 didnt know about this one! anyway what i asked was that why did Rowling choose to write 7 novels in real life, fiction is fine but isnt it amazing that she started this series in 1997 and ended in 2007, any theories?

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Well in the Muggle World the #7 is the luckiest number and also the most powerful. I mean come on 7 is the winning number in almost all casino games. LOL! And in the Wizarding World the #7 is supposed to be the most magical number.

Here is the Biblical Meaning - click here

Here is the Numerology - click here

I hope those site help you out some.

I've been trying to tell my brother about this for AGES but he won't believe me. He thinks I'm trying to make pointless connections, but now i have proof!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA! Ok anyway...since I've been like trying for ages to find more seven related things in the books just to prove him wrong, I've got all the things on the list already but here are a few more...

.Seven galleons for a wand
.seven enchantments guarding the PS/SS
.seven rooms in dept o Mysterys that we know of...
.Seven is the age when most young wiz/witches begin to show signs of magical ability
.seven tips on safty from the ministry in the leaflet in the sixth book


I'm looking for more if i find any I'll tell you

Concerning the 7 good guys dying in the last book, I think that is coincidence cos she never meant to kill off Lupin and Tonks.

Also in the end weren't there 8 horcruxes so that doesn't hold...

All in all 7 is just a magical number!

in the fourth book Frank the gardener was nearing his 77th birthday when he died, you had to be 17 to enter the triwizard tournament, Diggory has 7 letters, Severus has 7 letters, Skeeter has 7 letters (only just realised this, if your wondering,) the unicorn whose hair was in Cedric's wand was 17 hands, Harry's wand is 11 inches, Sirius sends Harry 7 letters in the fourth book, Harry was the seventh horcrux Voldemort never meant to make and that's all I've found at the moment but I'll look throught the other books to see if there are any more.

I believe the horcruxes were: Hufflepuff cup, Ravenclaw diadem, Slytherin locket, Gaunt's ring, Tom Riddle's diary, Nagini, and Harry. I'm reasonably confident those were the horcruxes, so yeah still seven. I got kind of confused with the count when I found out Harry was a horcrux, but if there was eight it would defeat the purpose of LV having a magical number of them.

Oh and Ginerva Weasley already pretty much listed what I was going to.

And mundu, good observation! I never would have noticed that, but it's interesting.

Seven is the most magically powerful number in the wizarding world (don't ask me why though) so Voldemort would have wanted to give himself the ultimate invincibility through the maximum power.

well lets see.
. Seven books.
. seventeen chapters in PS
. Seven years at hogwarts
. Seven staff at the staff table
. Chapter seven of PS (the sorting hat.) is a very important chapter
. Seventeen sickles to a galleon.
. Seven Weasley children
. Arthur's father (possible father to be precise.) was called Septimus Weasley.
. Seven letters in Granger and Weasley.
. Seven players on a quidditch team.
. Seven on Harry's quidditch robes.
. Dobby told Harry once he had seven socks
. Ollivander wands cost seven Galleons.
. the philosophers stone was in vault seven hundred and thirteen (that's 2 significant numbers.)
. Ollivander gave Harry a seven inch wand to test when Harry was buying his wand in PS.
. A popular broom is the cleansweep seven.
. The fat lady's portrait is on the seventh floor.
. Seven hundred quiditch fouls
. In PS Griffondor hadn't won the house cup for seven years.
. There are seven greenhouses.
. In PS there are seven bottles in Snapes challenge, that Harry must get past to reach the stone.
. Seven horcruxes.
. There were seven challenges guarding the philosophers stone.
. Seven lockhart books.

and many more

wow that is a lot. You have the majority of me '7 list' ... yes I have a list too .

here are a few you didn't get...

.Dumbledores office is on the 7th floor
.the Room of Requirement is on the 7th floor
.(in 7th book) the person who thought Dumbledore had stolen his uses of Dragon blood he said he had already discover 7.....(i think, need to check)
.coincidence but still .... Chamber and Secrets both have 7 letters.

if I find more i will update

Well seven is the most important magical number in the wizarding world. Also, the christian belief it think is that the world was created in seven days? that might be part of it

I've got a couple more.

The marauders nicknames strung together: Moony, wormtail, padfoot, prongs. makes 7 syllables (Probably a coincidence.) Also in HBP, Snape (As the prince.) tells Harry to add one clockwise stir after every 7th counterclockwise stir.

Well I found this interesting article about it. Here's an piece of it:

"[Voldemort] In splitting his soul seven ways, he finds his demise. Interestingly, Harry learns to rely on the Seven Contrary Virtues (humility, kindness, abstinence, chastity, patience, liberality, diligence) to destroy Voldemort’s seven horcruxes. In order to defeat Voldemort and overcome evil, he has to also overcome the temptation of the seven deadly sins. Sometimes this requires Harry, Ron, and Hermione to wear the horcrux (deadly sin) around their necks. Again, symbolically, when they are wearing the sin (much like an albatross), they lash out at one another and display qualities of sin and evil. In order to overcome the evil presence of the horcruxes (sin) and destroy them, the three children must learn to live the Seven Contrary Virtues.

As the characters travel together to find and destroy the seven horcruxes (the seven deadly sins), they realize they must work together—and essentially they learn to act with virtue.....
This seems to parallel the use of the The Contrary Virtues in Psychomachia (“Battle for the Soul”), an epic poem written by Prudentius (c. 410). In the poem, the seven deadly sins become defeated through the virtues: humility against pride, kindness against envy, abstinence against gluttony, chastity against lust, patience against anger, liberality against greed, and diligence against sloth. Harry, Ron, and Hermione find victory in learning all of these virtues......

And the number seven continues. There are the Seven Heavenly virtues (faith, hope, charity, fortitude, justice, temperance, and prudence), which are a combination of the Cardinal Virtues (prudence, temperance, courage, and justice) and the Theological Virtues (faith, hope, and love). And don’t forget The Seven Corporal Works of Mercy—which again are also displayed by the characters in fighting their battle against evil. Many of these can be found in Hermione’s work to help the house elves. Others are displayed by the three main characters."

I thought this was pretty cool, and it sort of altered my perspective of the series a little. I thought you guys might like to read about this, you might be a little shocked at what you find out. As for me, I'm going to take her challenge and try to find all the uses and meanings of "7" in the books.

-Karina

There were 4 original elements (fire, water, air, earth) but as time progressed there were more and more, eventually there was fire, earth, water, air, metal, aether, and wood. There are seven continents, seven wonders of the world.

If you check you can see that all the members of the DA who went to the department of mysteries equal seven (just another thing) Ginny was the seventh ichild and first Weasly female in 7 generations (although you probably knew that) and of course multiple other times in which the number seven shows up throughout the series, as you already know. I do not fully know why JK Rowling chose the number, but I have a few ideas.

I found a site which explains the number 7 as a magical/lucky number:


The rest of the article can be found here

i honestly have just thought that they picked seven, because it was a slightly odd number, like magic is slightly odd, but reading all these theories makes me think again

7 is the lucky number and I'm guessing the books are all about luck