The Department of Mis-information that is JK Rowling and her rascally publishers worked well. From their hints I expected a different result.

Though I anticipated the epilogue and the coming together of children of the 'survivors' on their first day of school; I was very confident that Hermione would be the soul survivor of the trio; and she would give birth to Ron's daughter (named Harriot after Harry).

I anticipated Hermione would become a single mother headmistress of Hogwarts.

I thought 'Harriot' would meet up with Draco's son on their first day of school; and that Harriot and Draco Junior would go on to fall in love; get married; and bring together the pure-blood / blood traitor families.

To JK Rowling I would say thank you for the stories; the many years of enjoyment reading them; and years of enjoyment speculating what would be in the next book.

I would welcome the publication of an encylopedia of Harry's world and the characters contained therein. I would also welcome a 'directors cut' style extended version of the books wher the author bolts in some additional chapters or paragraphs that were perhaps cut out or trimmed.

I've felt for along time that JK Rowlings true gift is in creating completely fictional yet believable characters; the destiny or doom of whom is very exciting. Consequently I would also welcome future books introducing new characters to the world.

Once again ... thanks for the stories.

I am with white_bumblebee on this one. I don't think they went abroad in terms of leaving the UK and going to Albania (especially the forest.)
The Grey Lady talks about going abroad to the Albanian Forest to hide the diadem and how voldy got it from there.
They didn't go abroad.

But anyway, my predictions, well that was a dozy. I mean, I got the whole No-wandless-magic part right. But other than that, !
But I am glad that is what ended up happening. I like that Snape ended up being good and that harry ended up not dying.
The whole he was a horcrux worked out but I didn't particularly enjoy it or anything...

I had nearly all of my theories wrong.

WRONG:
~I thought Lupin was going to kill Peter or Fenrir
~I thought a horcrux would be Godric's grave
~I thought Sirius would come back
~I thought Harry was not a Horcrux
~I thought Snape was an animagus

RIGHT:
~Snape was good
~Harry lived
~during the silver doe chapter i knew the patronus was Severus' because i knew he loved Lily and James was a Stag so a mate to a stag is a doe and that could represent lily to Severus.

Jeez, what wasn´t I wrong about?

I knew that Dumbledore was really dead and Sirius too. There was no way they were going to turn up alive somewhere in the last book.

Tonks and Lupin... Them dying and leaving behind baby Teddy... well, that just broke my heart.

Snape... always knew he had to be a good guy. I did suspect he loved her, but I had no idea he knew Lilly and Petunia before Hogwarts.

Fred... I hate to admit it, but after George lost his ear, I kinda figured Fred would be the one to lose his life. But still, I wasn´t prepared to actually read that Fred died. (at this point, my beloved new book, flew through my bedroom and hit the wall. I was angry and frustrated!)

The couples... Come on! Ron and Hermione, that was one of the easiest predictions! And how cute was it that all it took for Hermione to kiss him on the lips, was for Ron to mention getting the house elves into safety? S.P.E.W rules!
And Harry and Ginny... After the way he distanced himself from her in HBP, I knew he loved her and would eventually get back together with her.

Harry a horcrux... didn´t see that one coming, cause it was simply toooo easy.

Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy... I loved how Narcissa bows over Harry to check if he´s really dead and asks him where her son is... All she wanted was her beloved Draco to be alive and she didn´t care about Voldemorts cause anymore.

I didn´t see most of the deaths coming. JK had tortured us for months, saying people were gonna die and then she changed it, making it so some other characters died instead.
Hedwig, Moody, Dobby, Snape, Tonks, Lupin and Fred... may you all rest in peace

And Molly Weasley... I never figured she would explode and even swear for that matter. But all that bottled up anger, just came to boiling point. And seeing Ginny, her only daughter, almost getting hit by the Killing Curse... Well, that just send her over the edge. And personnaly... I LOVED IT!

Right

I thought that Snape, Wormtail and Bellatrix were going to die.
I thought RAB was Sirius's brother
I thought Ron and Hermione would get married
I knew that Draco would become good

Wrong

I expected Harry and Hagrid to die
I did not think that Fred, Tonks, Lupin and Dobby were going to die
I thought Lupin was going to kill Pettigrew
I thought that Snape was bad

I didn't have a huge amount of predictions before the book

I was prepared for one of the major three to die, glad they didn't, likewise Hagrid but fortunately Hagrid can't be killed

I expected a Weasley to die, one of the twins seemed most likely but when George lost his ear i thought, 'oh that's who she let off', only for her to kill Fred at the end, i did feel at least one Weasley should die, my reasoning for who it was - Bill had already been injured, Charlie was barely ever in the books so wouldn' have a huge impact on readers, Percy was disliked (although i held an outside chance he'd come back and jump in front of his brothers or something), killing mr or mrs weasley would be overkill i think and Ginny would've just been cruel, wouldn't be very fair if everyone else loses someone and all 9 weasleys survived, although i can't help wondering what happened to the joke shop without both twins

Never expected mad-eye to snuff it, and i was constantly looking for clues that he survived - like when they go to gringotts and see a man with a bandaged eye "that's mad-eye!" - it wasn't

Dobby too, didn't even consider him, his death was the toughest i think, i don't know why but i was most upset when he got killed

I was expecting a face-off between Draco and Harry, sadly it never came as Draco came good, that's no fun

I expected Lupin to die, mainly due to his long suffering, but not Tonks, but then i didn't know there would be a baby involved too, as soon as i heard 'baby' and 'godfather' i knew they were both going, too much of a sirius ring to it, but obviously i couldn't predict that prior to the release

In the early stages of the book because i was expecting a plot twist which never came i was suspecting Lupin or Bill to have betrayed the order, simply because they kept looking dodgy to me, Lupin being miserable and the whole baby thing didn't seem very likely to me and the pair of them asked about the plan, i'm glad they weren't traitors as they really shouldn't have been but i wanted a plot twist!

That's about it i think, we all knew Snape was good in the end didn't we? fans saw that snape-lily thing from book 5, JKR must have been itching to say 'yes, you got me, but you'll have to wait two more years'

Right

LV would die in the end
A horcrux was in the room of requirement
I thought RAB was Sirius's brother
Harry would not attend Hogwarts as a student
DD left a will that gave Harry something important

Wrong

I thought Harry and Hagrid would die, and either Ron or Hermionee
I did not think that Fred, Tonks, Lupin and Dobby were going to die - like most people.
I thought that the veil and the locked room in the DoM would be important
Dumbledore's chocolate frog card would allow Harry to talk and get info from DD

correct predictions:
harry is a horcrux
LV died
ron and hermione's relationship would finally blossom
ginny would not die; her and harry had to get together
the trio would go back to hogwarts, but not as students
harry lived (this was kind of wrong because he did die, but ultimately he did live)
percy would redeem himself
snape is a good guy ( i still totally loathe him though )
R.A.B. is Sirius's brother

incorrect predictions:
i really thought hagrid would die
i thought kreacher would betray harry
i didnt think a weasley would die because: charlie we barely ever see and it wouldnt hurt as much, george had already lost his ear and i didnt think she would hurt another twin, ginny had to marry harry, bill got attacked by greyback, percy had to redeem himself, and i never imagined her killing off molly or arthur.

im sure i have other wrong predictions, but i cant think of any more of them.
im glad none of them came true!!!
~FawkesyGirl~

I have to say if someone asked me the two characters I think would have died before the book I would have said Voldemort and snape, truly and honestly but I always thought that Snape would be doing something noble in dying! Even in saying that I was really surprised when both of them died, I never believed that they would die. All the other deaths were completly unpredicted. When she said there was more than tw deaths I didn't expect it to go into the double digits. I thought Dobby and Fred were the ones that upset me the most and I never expected both Tonks and Lupin to die. I thought Lupin might but not both of them together! Truly amazing book though and it wouldn't have been the same without them!

I've learned a long time ago that to never make predictions especially where J.K. Rowling is concerned. I was surprised though, when I found out that Harry, Ron, and Hermione lived, and that I was right about Snape being good -- I if Dumbledore trusted him, it was okay to trust Snape. I knew something terrible was going to happen at Bill and Fleur's wedding, but I never expected the chaos to escalate so quickly. And lastly, I was surprised how Dobby died. She really threw me for a loop with that one.

i was actually suprised percy came back, and that fred had died. the whole snape being good thing threw me off.
i also think everyone had an idea that harry was the 7th horcrux and he'd have to die, i didn't think he'd come back though. and i was so sad when hedwig died i didn't see that coming

I never thought that Snape actually "loved" Lily, but i thought that they had been friends so that was sorta right sorta wrong...

Neville- I thought that he would be the one to kill Bella... or Voldy.... but oh well... He stilled help!

Harry being a horcrux was right....

RAB being Regalus...

Kreacher helping.... I was happy with that....

Hermione/Ron!!! YAY!! I was right!

Harry/Ginny!! YAY!! Again!!

I'll probably think of more but right now this is it... I'll edit this when I do think of some more...

[s] Most of my predictions came true. I had always beleived beyond a shadow of a doubt that Severus Snape was good and boy did he pull through. I had predicted that Ginny and Harry would marry, that Ron and Hermione would marry and I even predicted that Neville would become the new Herbology Professor at Hogwarts. So I'm extremely happy with how everything turned out.

Of course I was bummed that Fred Weasly, Tonks, Lupin, Doby (I cried) and Mad Eye Moody were killed. I even let out a little yelp that Colin Creevy and Lavender Brown were killed. So many casualties....

The Deathly Hallows was a wonderful rollercoaster of emotions and what a ride over the last decade. My hats off to JK Rowling for creating and giving us the treasure that is HARRY POTTER. Definately an epic saga for the ages!

Suzy

Harry Being A Horcrux
I had a hunch that Harry's connection with Voldemort was more deep seated than just the scar. I danced around the idea of the fact that voldemorts powers being passed on to him because part of his soul was in Harry. And I was right. I did however think Harry would die too.

Snape Loving Lily And Being A Hero
Well I knew from day one that he was bound to be a hero I knew he was good. I read and re-read the previous books and something just didn't add up, I knew he was just a good guy who through being rejected so many times followed a bad path but has realised the error of his ways. But no one realised what a great fighter he was until he died and it was too late to thank him! I didn't think that Lily was the only reason for him "seeing the light" but turns out she was. I also didn't expect them to have know her since they were little but it adds a nice twist to it. Also the emphasis on Harry's green eyes made me suspicious and when Snape would stare into them all the time.

Hagrid Dying
I really thought he would die, I was preparing myself for it. I thought that JK Rowling would try to show us that no matter how big you are you are still vulnrable. I'm glad I was wrong!

Ron And Hermione Getting Together
I knew it from book one, all the fighting over Lavender and Cormac it was obvious that they really wanted to be together but were both too stubbon to admit it. Im just glad they didnt leave it too late.

The Mystery About The Veil Would Be Revealed and Sirius Would Contact Harry Through The Two Way Mirror.
The Veil wasn't mentioned and the mirror was a way of Aberforth helping Harry

Hedwig Dying
Well it's werid because I was joking to my friends about Hedwig dying instead of anyone important to spare the heart ache and it did happen but it didn't spare the heart ache...it was still really sad and so soon!

There were so many more secrets and deaths which were both unexpected and sad but made the book too good to put down. I shed a tear of two for everyone who died...well not so much Mad-eye because it was more of a shock to me and never really sank in. The death which was most disturbing for me however was Severus Snapes, only ever wanted to put right what he did wrong and his death was merciless and unnecessary. I'm just glad that Riddle and Nagini got what was coming to them!

i also didnt predict any of those deaths correctly. I actually thought Hagrid was going to die i was so shocked when Hedwig ( ) and Madeye and Fred died!!!

Even though a lot of people seemed to dissagree with me, I knew Harry was a Horucrux, I don;t know probably because he shared so many characteristics with Voldemort

Harry is a Horcrux

I DESPERATELY did not want to believe this was true because I didn't want him to have to die. When I read that Harry was indeed a horcrux, I started sobbing and I couldn't stop for a long time. It was painful to read about him going to his death and sacrificing himself for the benefit of others. However, I thought JKR's way of how he both "dies" yet is able to come back was the perfect way to end the book, so I was glad that she incuded Harry as the 7th horcrux.

The Deaths

I have to honestly say I was unprepared for all of the deaths (Dobby's rocked me the most). I was glad Hagrid survived as well as Harry, Ron, and Hermione (deep down I was wishing they would all survive). I agree with several previous people that it was a surprize that Fred was killed over George (I would have thought JKR would have picked George, which I felt had less comedic lines than Fred throughout the books).

Snape

I always hoped Snape was good, and I was so glad he turned out to be!

Harry would NOT kill Voldemort with the "Avada Kedavra" Curse

Though I had no idea how Harry would defeat Voldemort without using the killing curse, I couldn't believe Harry would use such an evil curse to destroy him. I thought the use of the "Expelliarmus" charm was the perfect way to bring about Voldemort's demise (it's CLASSIC Harry!).

I was completely shocked when Hedwig, Dobby, Fred, and Tonks died. I never really thought Harry would die. To go through all he went through and then die would've really sucked. I always knew Voldemort would die. I knew Snape was good but I didn't know how good he really was. I wasn't really surprised by Lupin's death. I kinda thought Neville would kill Bellatrix, but Mrs. Weasley was hilarious when she did it! I figured Harry was the seventh Horcrux. The connection between him and Voldemort seemed to be more than a "transferral of powers". Obviously Harry and Ginny would be together and Ron and Hermione would FINALLY be together. I so furious when Ron left Harry and Hermione.

That's all I can think about right now.

I was correct about everything...but one.

Snape was good, I had told everyone but no one believed me.

Lupin and Tonks died. I just knew as soon as it said she was pregnant that they would both die.

Harry was the last horcrux. I had this feeling.

I had a feeling that both Dobby and Mad Eye would die. Just because Dobby was so adorable and Mad Eye was so strong.

But Fred died. I still cannot believe it. I though Ron would die for sure, but it was Fred. This will seem really pathetic, but I loved that character so much. I had to take a break from reading, because I was sobbing so hard. That was a blow and an unexpected one at that.

I'll miss you Fred.

Thats all I can think of for now

I'm relatively new to the board, actually never posted because I didn't want to actually write down any of my predictions...whenever I spoke them outloud to people, the look of pure horror on their faces made me realize that I was thinking a lot differently than most...heres what I mean..
what I predicted...
1. Harry's eyes-the reminder of Lily to Snape, who was the nasty boy Petunia referred to.
2. DD was dying, so why not have Snape kill him to protect Draco and the wand?
3. The Chamber of Secrets would be used again, but Harry wouldn't be the one to go into it.
4. None of the trio would die, and not even Hagrid, but everyone else who had become Harry's family-i.e. Hedwig, Dobby, and Lupin would die. I knew a Weasley, but thought it might be Charlie, since we never really heard from him.
5. None of the Horcuxes would be from Griffindor because Harry was one himself. I also wondered if the fact that Voldemort used Harry's blood would protect Harry somehow.

what I was wrong about...
1. I never thought she'd separate the twins. I thought either both would live or both would die.
2. I thought Lupin would die as he took Greyback out.
3. I thought Neville would take out Bellatrix and then go on to cure his parents with his knowlege of herbology.
4. I thought Mad Eye would become MoM. Glad it was Kingsley though.
5. I thought that a death would happen at the wedding and it would either be Percy or Charlie.

There were some great surprises-the deal with the invisibility cloak, thought maybe someone was using it the night the Potters died? I loved the fact that Kreacher turned out not to be so nasty. I love how JKR is able to tie things up, how often did we hear about Harry's eyes so much like his mom, although he looked very much like his dad? The look of triumph in DD's eyes about Voldemort taking Harry's blood? She may be a bit predictable in some things, but she does a bang up job in tying all of her storylines together.

well i think it is funny coz i had my suspitions coz this is what i thort that since lv tried to kill harry ther joined together for some reason thats why he has the scar and he can see lv actions and what he is doing and stuff so i thort when lv kills harry or the other way round the person who killed them would die as well coz here both connected so i thort if harry is killed by lv lv will die aswell and tats sort of what happened but i wounder what happened to lv all that tym when harry when to kings cross with dd and how he thort harry was still alive that why he got some one to chek if he was realy dead.

I definatley thought the twins were safe, especially after George got hurt in the beginning. But if either of them died I wanted it to be George, for some reason I liked Fred just a little bit more. But I thought if any Weasley died, it would be Percy, sacrificing himself for one of his family members, namely one of the twins seeing as their relationship with Percy had always been the worst. But I pretty much predicted all the other deaths, except Snape. I guess I never really thought about him living or dying; I was too worried trying to convince people he was good.

I didn't think Harry would actually be a horcrux. I knew it was a possibility, but I didn't like it at all.

I thought Neville would kill Bellatrix. But I have to admit it was pretty cool that Molly did it.

I thought Lupin would take out Greyback, but as far as I know Greyback survived the Battle.

I thought that Neville would become DADA teacher. When I heard that one of Harry's friends would become a teacher and that it wasn't Hermione, I immediately thought Neville. But I thought she was tricking us with the whole herbology is the only subject he was good at thing, making us believe that he would be herbology teacher. I mean the DADA teacher was so important throughout the series so I thought that whoever did become a teacher would teach DADA. And I mean Neville improved so much in DADA through the DA and stuff.

I have to admit, I owe an apology to anyone who thought Harry was a Horcrux ... I thought the theory was utter rubbish, but I was wrong!

I was right when I thought Snape would be good, I was utterly convinced of it. And here I am, grinning I also wasn't one of those 'Dumbledore didn't really die' shippers ...

I was also right that the Wedding wouldn't go to plan, or that something would happen ... but I never believed I would see Hogwarts again!

xx

For some reason I knew that Harry wasn't going to die. I had this feeling that JK Rowling would want the Potter name to live on.

I knew that Harry was going to end up being a Horcrux. I felt that the reason Voldemort fell from power was because part of his soul went into Harry.

I didn't think that that many people would die. I thought it would be of a semi-less number. I was a little disappointed at that.

Wow, I can't believe we finally have most of the answers!!!

I was wrong: I will start here because the list is small
JUST KIDDING!!!
I never thought Snape would die.
I did not want Harry to be a horcrux because I thought he would have to die.
Peter would die at his own 'hand'
Percy would die
Neville would kill Bella
The cover vault was malfoy manor (my first thought was Gringotts but I talked myself out of it)

I was right:
PUPPET MASTER THEORY!!! for the most part. DD and Snape were working together
Snape was DDs man
RAB was regulus and he took Kreacher with him
The TIARA in the RoR was the horcrux!!!
And the sword was important!!
Harry/Ginny
Hermione/Ron
Snape/Lily
Snape was on the side of the good guys but not nice
Peter would die in debt to harry
Percy would come around
Neville would come to his own
The DA would maintain a resistance
There would be an epic battle


I'm sure there is more but I can't think of them now.

Cris

Well, first off I never expected the people who died (except Voldemort and Snape) to die, especially .. well everyone ! Like jeez, Hedwig, Dobby, Fred , Lupin and Tonks ! Why'd they all have to die ?!

Also, I never belived that Harry would be a Horcrux, because I thought that if he was that would make him die and JK wouldn't do that.. but she found away around that haha so I guess that's fine.

I never thought that Snape actually was good, or that he loved Lily, but I guess I was totally wrong about that too !

I knew Snape was good but I thought Harry might die so I was wrong there. I didn't expect Lupin or Tonks' deaths. Dobby's death totally got me teary-eyed. It was obvious that Voldy would die I thought there was a slight chance that we might've seen Sirius again but no...
And I thought that not all of the Weasleys could have survived - it was a shock when I first read it but understandable after a while.

I Didn't See Most Of The Twists Coming! They Hit Me Like A Big Yellow School Bus!

But The Ones With the Biggest Shock Factor!

1.Hedwigs Death...Poor Owl

2. Fred's Death...No More Fred & George Witty Back-And-Forths

3. Snape Being DD's Man The Whole Time: Brilliant Twist! Favourite Of the Entire Series! Good Auld Snivellus!

4. Harry NOT Dying! Or Did He? Trés Confusing!!!

5. The Pathetic First Kiss Of Ron & Hermoine. Had Bags More Potential, Needed To Be More Passionate/Humerous... I Mean Harry Was There For Gods Sake!

I have to admit, those lists of eight, nine things that you guys predicted astounds me. I was wrong about just about everything! But, hey! At least I can admit it.

My Predictions:
1. I thought Harry could not die. All of that hype was shmuckbait. (Means a cliffhanger, where the main character could die, but never does because you can't kill off your main protagonist! [u] Only a 'shmuck' would beleive that!) And then Harry did die, but I was sort of right, because he came back.

2. People can't come back from the dead. It's unrealistic, and an author can't do that without sacrificing the realistic qualities of their story. This was reiterated by Hermione, when she was proving Ron wrong about Dumbledore being dead. I maintained that DD was dead [u] for sure, but then Harry sort of died, and came back.

3. One of Harry's really close friends would die. Aka: Hermione or Ron or Luna or Neville or Ginny, but not more than one, because it would just kill Harry to have his fiends killed off like that. Needless to say , they didn't ( ), but Hedwig did.

4. Fred and George would not, could not die. I distinctly remember telling my uncle this five days before the 21st. I thought that a war was difficult enough, and you would need some comic releif during and after the war and who knew how to do it better than F&G? Of course, Jo managed to get plenty of jokes from others in DH, and then Fred died.

5. Harry was not a horcrux. I just thought that it was way too unrealistic, and didn't you need to go through spells and stuff to make one? How could it happen as an accident?... Well, one way was the way it did happpen.

6. Snape was working for himself. He wasn't working for DD, because he killed him, and Snape had to have done something to assure Karakoff in the pensieve so well that he was with LD and planning DD's death was unrealistic, and he wasn't working for LD because DD was a logical man, and must have known something about Snape to be so sure. He really seemed to be the kind of guy that knew what he wanted for himself and was smart enough to get it.

7. Percy was a traitor, and was too stubborn to come back. Simply stated, and simply proven wrong.

After that I stopped and didn't want to think about the possibilities of who else could die, which is a good thing, otherwise the list of things I predictedl falsely would have gone on forever!

Still I enjoyed DH despite being so horribly wrong about so many things.

Well, I thought that severus was good so that s good, i was sure that harry wasn t a horcrux... that didn t go very well. I loved the deathly hollows (the rock, the elder wand and the cloak)

I am sure that once we re-read the book, we will be able to come to terms with the events.
I was devistated that Fred got killed and not both: Having one twin live was far worse to think about and absorb.
Once Lupin had come around and gone back to Tonks, I thought that was the nail in his coffin: finally acheiving happiness was a sure sign of his doom.
Snape's role was quite tragic!! He and Harry were puppets in the game in a sense. A tragic hero. Once the emeralds fell from Slytherin, you knew Snape was going down! I thought he would either be good or very bad and he was really neither.
I never believed Harry to be a Horcrux!!
I was expecting some "switching spell" where someone was really another, but it never happened.

These were my top 20 (I couldn't narrow it down to 10) predictions:

1: Neville would do something heroic.

Ever since he stood up to Harry, Ron and Hermione in PS, i thought he would do something heroric. And he did i guess-who would have the guts to kill Voldemort's pet snake with gryffindors sword?

2: Ron's chess playing skills would come into play.

Ok, i guess this wasn't true. But i always thought they'd be important for something. But i guess not.

3: Regelus (sp?) Black was RAB.

Well duh. Who else could it be? I first thought of this idea on the way hoome from my dancing lesson. But unfortunately, it had already been speculated on.

4: Krum would be seen at the wedding.

I was right! I thought he'd be there, or else for the final battle.

5: The wedding would be a time for relatinship troubles. (coughharryGinnycough).

Well, i guess not really. Ron and Hermione were dancing, but that didn't really say much.

6: Harry, Ron and Hermione would surrvive.

You can't kill of the main characters-the books named after one! Geez ...

7: Neville would die. Later changed to Hagrid would die.

I always thought neville would die doing something heroic, but then thought, nah, Hagrid will die protecting Harry. But he didn't and i'm glad.

8: Voldemort would die.

Come on, if he surrvived, he'd just continue kiling until the whole world was at his feet, and no author would do that to her highly successful book series.

9: The picture on the front cover (UK version) was the trio at Gringotts, trying to get a horcrux. And the thing on Harry's back was Kretcher.

Well, they were at Gringotts, but i guess it wasn't Kretcher. Griphook maybe, but not Kretcher.

10: Krecter would be important somehow.

Well, he knew about the locket, he turned around and became half-way decent. I guess he was important.

11: We would see norbert, or Fluffy, or one of Hagrid's monster mates again.

We saw the spiders-does that count?

12: Voldemort would try and basically take over the world.

Well, the magical world, but that's close enough.

13: If Fred or George died, the other was going down with him.

When Fred ... oh god. I thought George was going to try and get the person who killed him and would die in battle. But no way would just one die-they've been joined at the hip forever. I can't imagine one without the other. But i guess not.

14: Percy wouldn't be at the wedding, but would make it up with the family at some point.

Well he did (Right before Fred was killed *sob*).

15: Harry was not a horcrux.

I ccan't believe this theory was right. Though he didn't have to sacrifice himself completly (He came back).

16: Harry was not heir of gryffindor.

He wasn't!

17: The Weasley's were.

Well, did we ever find this out? No. It's possible.

18: Luna would be important somehow.

I dunno how, but was she? Hmmm ... you'd think that after two books of Crumple-horned Snorcacks and Nargles that she'd say something of importance? But ehy-she got them into Ravenclaw's tower.

I can't think of any more. Good thing too-this list was getting long! So how did i do? 11/18 Hehehe ... Not bad!

i guessed a couple things right like harry being related to the peverells. but not snape being good, or dumbledore not telling harry that he was supposed to die. and i couldnt BELIEVE that fred DIEEED!!! i seriously think that JKR made a typo and really meant percy. im serious.

i would have never guessed dobby to die.

i knew one of the weasleys would die because there is some many of them but i expected bill or mr. weasley.

i also expected neville and mcgonnagal to die.

i would have NEVER guessed kretcher would be nice.

i had no idea what to expect for harry, but whether you guessed he would die or live, youre right

i was super pleased when mrs weasley dueled bellatrix

i also expected hagrid to die.

never thought she'd take hedwig. i guess it would have been hard to travel inconspicuously with an owl.

i had a feeling that harry would be the final horcruxe but only cos my boyfriend explained why he thought so the last book or so.

i expected a LOT more people to die. i am glad they didnt.






how could you have possibly guessed this. i dont think there was any info to back this up in the other books. only a memory where she told james to leave him be.

I didn't really make many predictions...I like to be quite surprised. I didn't think Harry could be a horcrux....I was wrong about that but most of the supporters of that were wrong on a lot of the details...much more complicated than anybody guessed. I was right that Harry was going to live, though and that Snape was good and that he would die. My other guess of who would die was Ron, which of course didn't happen.

I had one prediction about the actual story which is that when Dumbledore tried to destroy the ring, he got possesed by the soul but was able to control himself and not let the soul take over but was not able to for long. He knew his time was running out so he gave the task of destroying the horcruxes to Harry because he wasn't able to continue on being in control. He also told snape this. I didnt decide whether or not Dumbledore and snape had decided together or if snape decided on his own to let snape kill him to protect the secret of snapes loyalties.

I of course was half right. The stuff I got right was that Dumbledore was dying and that snape knew about it and thats why Dumbledore suddenly told Harry everything about the mission and why Dumbledore died so easily. The only things I got wrong was what was killing Dumbledore and the reason for Snape killing him. Pretty close for something I made up as I typed. (If and anyone read the theory that I wrote and it was different from what I just said because the theory changed in my head afterwards then sorry about that)

My other theories was about the plot of the storry. It was that Harry would have to coincidentally run into all the horcruxes pretty easily in order to find them all in 600 pages. There obviously could have been at least 200 pages of searching adventuring and whatever else there is to find a horcrux for each of the horcruxes. which would have been 800 pages and then the battle part of it which could have been another 300. But when I saw the number of pages it was going to be, I had a feeling it was going to have a lot of coincidences. I was right.

Other theories was that it wouldnt continue in Hogwarts and that they would be in hidding for a long time and the story would continue 5-10 years later. First right, second wrong.

Other theories that was not mine that I have read about and debated about were that Harry was a Horcrux and that Regulus was RAB.

RAB = Regulus didnt matter to me that much when I read it but when I found out it was true I was pretty shocked.

The 7th Horcrux thing was something I debated against for a long time and I was absolutely sure it wouldn't happen. When I found out, I was so shocked and disappointed because of the sudden twist added that it ruined the rest of the book for me. I was wrong.

There was a moment that I just wondered whether JKR just went to the fansites and looked up all the big theories that the 7th Horcrux one that seemed possible and wrote them into the book. Of course that idea was gone as soon as it came.

Anyways there's all my theories.
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i suppose theres a lot of things that i both expected to happen and didnt expect to happen:

1) i knew a lot of people would die but i didnt think the people that died would die (if that makes sense). i didnt think fred would die or lupin and tonks and especially not dobby or hedwig!

2) i thought ron might get killed off or hagrid but that didnt happen

3) dumbledore had planned his own death - biggest shock ever! and the fact that the curse from the ring would have eventually killed him anyway... kind of dissapoitning

4) dumbledore's past - the whole thing about him and grindewald being friends and his sister dying and the 'greater good' thing, id never have imagined dumbledore like that

5) kretcher being so nice was another shock, i was half expecting him to double cross harry like he had done in OOTP, it just felt weird him being so nice

6) percy coming through in the end was another shock

7) oh yea and i never guessed that his invisibility cloak was the one from the deathly hallows story or that he was related to the peverells

there were things i think i knew were coming, like ron and hermione's kiss and harry not dying (half true anyway) and i always hoped neville would come through in the end but i never thought he would in the way he did, but still go neville oh and snape being a good guy after all - again half true but i'll give him credit
there were prob more things i just cant remember right now

I thought after Dumbledore's death in HBP that Hagrid, being one of the last sources of wisdom and comfort for Harry would die as well. I thought one of the 3 (Harry, Hermoine and Ron) would at least die or be seriously wounded and at least Harry died--he didn't stay dead.

My prediction that Snape was good (well sorta) was true. He was just totally blinded by love of Lily. Interesting premise.

I was almost sure that Harry would, eventually, die. But he didn't.
What surprised me the most was that last duel between Harry and Voldemort. I expected something more dramatic than just "the spell reflected back at him".

I forgot I had one prediction, that many others had too. It had to do with the fact that Ron and the Weasley family was so poor. I thought that Ron may have been tempted to go to the dark side by the offer of riches. Of course he would have not taken the bait, but he still would have been tempted.

i just wanted to add that HeatherHoustontxhc said...



about thatsProfessortoyou but even though i didnt mention it before i also had a little feeling that snape may have liked lily and that was my reason as to why snape was horrible to harry because he disliked james and vice versa but because he had lily too. now im not going to claim i predicted everything that was revealed, because i didnt, i just thought that maybe snape liked lily and it turned out he did... now im not trying to sound clever by saying that im just saying it wasnt impossible for anyone to think that

As an explaination to the two of you and anyone else who is interested. There is a whole Lily/Snape ship thread where we have discussed our feelings and canon back up on why we believe this.

In short, there were quotes from DD suggesting that Snape had ulterior motives for his actions. Snape had regrets etc. Reading and rereading' Snape's worst memory, reading 'between the lines; putting two and two together, hypothesizing and theorizing, basically using our brains when reading, lead us to beleive that Snape had a thing for Lily.

We have also built on each other's theories and brainstormed together to come up with some really awesome ideas. I am proud of this and I'm sorry if I came across 'trying to sound clever' in a bad way. My post was 75% jest - notice the ROFLMAO smiley- and 25% gloating (to be perfectly honest)

Cris

befoire reading the book, i was wary on making predictions, and tried to not make any... but then i couldn't help myself with all the theories flying around and well, i was mostly wrong, thankfully =)
i was wrong about neville killing off bellatrix... after the 5th book, i always thought that for sure, neville would have the pleasure of killing her, and that it would be a pretty big scene and a victorious one at that
i was also wrong on harry and ginny not continuing their relationship. i definitely thought that they would somehow keep in contact and find ways to be together, seeing that they hardly had any time for that in the previous yr.
i was wrong about harry's fate. i thought that j.k. rowling would definitely make it a mysterious and unique ending ( which is was already!) by making it so that harry would kill voldemort, but then right after, he would die...i guess thats what happened, but the other way around, which is good
i was right about one thing though: ron and hermione getting together. that was one of my happier moments in the books because their relaitonship, in that sense, was building for a long time and it was made clear in the HBP that it was only a matter of time. i'm glad that j.k. rowling didn't make it a cheesy moment though, and i rather liked how she added a good laugh in by making the trigger for the kiss having to do with SPEW. it wasen't a cheesy, overly down, huge cathartic moment, which would have made it unhermioneandronish..if that makes sense =)

well just like most people, i was wrong about a lot too. up until the very chapter of 'the prince's tale', i thought that snape was either on voldemorts side or simply alone and on his own side. oh how wrong i was. i thought that there was no way that snape could have actually killed dumbledore yet still be on dumbledores side. the only possible explanation was (like some guessed) that dumbledore had asked snape to kill him. and i thought that was comlpetely insane! oh well... i still loved how snape ended up (aside from the fact that he died of course), i just didnt expect it, especially the thing with him and lily, even though that was one of my favorite parts. and i kinda thought that harry could be a horcrux but that would have meant that harry would have to die and i didnt see that happening (and i still dont understand how all of that happened...with harry the horcrux and then him dying and then living and stuff). hmm, what else. well i knew ron and hermione would get together of course. it certainly didnt happen the way that i expected though but i liked it, how ron was worried about the house elves. but it made sense i suppose. i just thought it would be a little drawn out and a bigger deal. i didnt know what to think about harry and ginny though, and their whole relationship through the book was kinda fuzzy. the deaths...i didnt really have too many predictions about that. i should have forseen lupin, even though i didnt, and with everything hagrid went through, i thought he was a goner. and freds death was really depressing and i almost cried, but i figured wed have to lose a weasley somewhere. it was unfortunate that neville didnt kill bellatrix but i absolutely loved (and i mean loved!) when mrs. weasley went after bellatrix! that was definitely one of my favorite parts in all seven books! but i think the 2 most shocking deaths for me were moody and scrimgouer. i never thought about moody dying and when bill just said 'mad eye's dead.' it really hit me hard. and scrimgouer dying didnt really affect me, it was more what it caused. 'the ministry has fallen. scrimgeour is dead, they are coming.' the affect that that had on me, i cant even comprehend it. it was just such a shock to see the wizarding world fall into such a state of chaos.
well i kinda got off track there didnt i? anyways, i think the whole thing was just so surprising because it was so different than the others. it was nothing like i expected yet i somehow knew that was how it had to happen. i cant think of anything else i was wrong about but i know there was more... i just cant think of them now...

i had the snape being told to kill dumbledore thing pinned, but not the fact that dumbledore was already fated to die,which made alot of sense. i really liked the way it played out and how she explained why dumbledore would have let himself be cursed that way.


my other main predictions involved death, and i was completely wrong on all of them except i predicted the deaths of the last remaining Messrs. (Moony and Wormtail....Wormtail's being much more twisted O_o)

but hagrid lived(i was sure he was gone because she had been killing off harry's protectors and he to me was one of them), fred died (i was sure Mr.Weasley of any of the Weasleys would be the one), and Mad Eye, Hedwig, and Dobby were all rude surprises. Dobby worst of all---he was one of my favorite secondary characters.

anyone else notice how powerful house elves can be when they set their mind to it? (between dobby and kreacher leading the hogwarts house elves in battle). random afterthought, sorry.

ok i think i confused you thatsProfessortoyou i was agreeing with what you said i wasnt trying to say that you sounded clever by saying it, i just wanted people to know that i didnt want it to seem as if we were, for predicting the snape/lily thing

the reason i mentioned i had predicted it was because HeatherHoustontxhc had said that it was impossible for anyone to guess that, so i was backing you up in a way by saying that it wasnt impossible and that i had predicted it too... make sense?

oh and i dont think it is gloating if you got a prediction right, nor does it make anyone stupid for getting it wrong (not saying anyone said that). JK did an amazing job with putting unexpected twists in and thats why we love her - george losing an ear, how unexpected!

On many of the predictions I was just cold wrong.

I thought Snape was evil through and through and would only be helpful to Harry by chance.

I thought we would see a lot of Fawkes the Phoenix in the role of comforter to Harry, I especially expected this when Hedwig was killed.

I expected those who died to have a good reason for dying, a specific act of protecting Harry or destroying a Horcrux or defeating a Death Eater, I didn't expect people like Tonks and Lupin just to show up dead.

I expected a death/ resurrection scene (What I call the discussion with DD at the railroad station) because of the hints that the scar was or contained a horcrux. Plus that seems to be the way to deal with absolute evil.

I expected characters like Ginny, Malfoy, the other Weasleys, the Order etc. to play a larger role in the hunt for the horcruxes, I didn't expect HP HG and RW to spend so much of the book in solitary pursuit.

I did expect one or more of the Malfoys to come to Harry's aid for the benefit of Draco, thank you Mrs Malfoy.

I thought the Deathly Hallows would be a place, not discreet items. I didn't expect the primary role of the nursery story.

There are hundreds more predictions great and small but I think I was right about 50% of the time.

Far too many of my predictions held up for me too be entirely content

Harry is a Horcrux was a really big theory, so whilst it's not strictly mine, it definately held up...that was a shame i hoped there would be a different, more complex answer...

RAB is Regulus was aklways going to be true, but deep down i hoped it would be aRABella Figg...

Snape was good and he loved Lily, which was a theory is upported, whilst once again hoping there would be a different answer to the question. I did not however forsee Snape and Lily being bestest best friends, so that was pretty cool.

Harry living was i think a bit of a cop out. Yer people say it was braver of her to let him live as it would have been too easy to kill him, but still i feel that it left everything a bit too rosy and tied up.

I was wrong about so much, and didn't even excpect a lot of other stuff- for example:
1) completly thought Sirius was coming back
2) never even considered Dobby dying
3) definatly never thought Kreacher could make me cry
and then also I'd kind of known all along that one of the twins was going to die, didn't want to admit, but i could just feel it somehow. And it happened. I'm still not ready to accept that Fred is dead though, or Lupin or Tonks- their deaths happened so close to the end and there was so much going on besides that, that it didn't sink in while I was reading the books, and I'm happy to go on believing that they're still alive