Now with the huge loss of dumbledore and returning of voldemort will patil twins parents will allowed parvatil and padma patil back to hogwarts? As we know that patils twins parents did not wanted them back at hogwarts in the beginning but still still they sended them at hogwarts because parvati tried and managed to talk with their parents. But talking didnt help in the end of the year when dumbledore died hence patil twins parents came at hogwarts to bring them back at home before the dumbledores funeral. Dunno about padma but parvati belong to gryffindor and belonging to grryffindorr means showing courage, hence i think she will show courage and again will manage to convince her parents.And if parvati will be back to hogwarts obviously padma will follow her sister too. Anyway its just a question of one more year at hogwarts. Its their NEWTs year which stands very important step and a final step towards their carrier. Patil twins parents wont like to take such a big risk would they? And losing gryffindorr students means losing courage too. Anyway parvati belongs to gryffindorr and she will show lot of courage to come back wont she? i will be glad to see them back what about you?

No, they will not return, but they will want to, like Ron said, Hogwarts is still probably safer than their homes.

i dont think so either, they left the day after *someone* died (i dont want to be a spoiler). so most likely they will not be coming back.

i definetly don't think that the twins will come back, they were trying to send them home in book 6, and now that death eaters attacked the school i most definetly think their parents won't let them come back

Actually, their parents can't stop them going back to Hogwarts now, if they want to go back. They've come of age. So, if Hogwarts actually reopens in Book Seven, I can see them going back.

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I have to agree with Balderdash! and laurahonest.

A great deal was made of wizards coming of age at 17 in the HBP Jo made numerous references to it in the book (the apperation lessons, Harry being able to leave, and no longer have the protection of the Dursley’s house, Ron Drinking on his birthday and so on.

Coming of age seems to mean a great deal in magical world and I believe that if the Patil Twins want to return to Hogwarts they will very much be able to. However this question’s closely linked to the will Hogwarts open in Harry’s seventh year thread. If it doesn’t open that’s pretty much their mind made up for them.
However I feel that parvati would definitely wish to return. She seems infatuated with Divination, Firenze and Professor Trelawney not to mention that she has a very close friendship with Lavender. But I suppose we'll just have to wait and see.

i say that hogwarts will be open but the trio wont return. i dont think that draco, the patails, or seamus will return. I'd say that about half of the returning students will return. Most of the returning students will probable be muggleborn or students with similar conditions to harry's. There will probably be almost no first years, except for muggleborns(who have no idea of even DD or The Dark Lord) most magical parents of first years will want to hold on to their children and not let them go and be foolish about thinking that their homes are still safer than ogwarts, anyways, thats just what i think

There is something telling me in the way back of my mind, that they will return, and Hogwarts will be open once again.

Honestly, what is a Harry Potter book be like without Hogwarts? I think that either, they are going to go back like normal students, they will arrive late and leave whenever they want to find the horcruxes (someone will give them permission), or they will go and leave their seventh year early.

If they do not go back to Hogwarts, Rowling will be just getting rid of characters left and right. There will be no more teachers seen, Neville will probably disappear for a long time in the book, Luna wont be in it.

since the patail twins will be "of age" i dont think that their parents will be able to stop them from returning to hogwarts.

I agree with everyone in saying that once you come of age, your parents can't stop you from doing what you please. They can get mad at you and try to prevent you from doing what you want, but they no longer have any real authority over you and your decision.

Horace Slughorn, I don't think closing Hogwarts would get rid of a lot of characters. A lot of the teachers are in the order and Jk could easily find a way for students at the school to assist Harry, he'll need all the help he can get.

I think hogwarts will open again thats clear and also I think the trio will return to hogwarts because they are looking for the horcruxes so then in hogwarts there mut be at least one horcruxe (I dont know the sword of Godric or something else) the point is that the trio surely will come back, I dont know if parvatti should come but the trio will.

In Book 1, Hagrid says, there is no other place safer than Gringrotts Bank, well maybe Hogwarts...

I think they will be sent back, but, in order to train fully as a wizard and be able to defend themselves properly.

I can't see Mrs.Weasley allowing Ron and Ginny to leave Hogwarts - so i guess the gang will all have to return. After all, whats a Harry Potter book without Hogwarts?

i dont think all students will come back. I now think hogwarts is not as safe as it used to be maybe even less safe than peoples homes!

I think Harry went to Hogwarts with his friends because you know in the end of the book 6 was Dumbledore sitting in the picture on the wall in the headmasters room and sleeped. Phineas Nigellus talked with Dumbledore often when Harry was in the headmasters room why shouldn´t Dumbledore talk to Harry and give him some tipoffs where the rest of the horcruxes are?
Dumbledore is alive in the picture that´s good for me to hear!

i agree with souljacker they are 17 now they can do what ever they want to do they don't have to listen to there parents. they are adults now so they make their own choices and i think most of the kids will go bad to hogwarts for the lessons and learning new spells i think no matter what they will teach the student advanced magic just in case they run into death eaters dementors or even Voldemort i think they will teach them newer and better spells.

I've already posted my theory about Harry, Hermione, and Ron returning to Hogwarts, but I'll sumarize it here so that people don't get too confused, and so I remember it. Harry's not going to return because of what he has to do, so he'll run away at the wedding. Hermione and Ron will come after him, unable to live at Hogwarts knowing he's out there, battling Death Eaters alone, and when they find Harry, he'll try and make them go back. From there, I'm not so sure about what'll happening, knowing the characters manipulative abilities as we do. Draco won't return, and I'm unsure about Crabbe and Goyle, though they probably want to deny that they were involved, and go on living, though who knows. Those with protective parents, like Patil's, Bone's (though she kinda doesn't have much family left at all), and some of the other's who were removed in the second and sixth novels. Seamus wont want to leave (Sorry about the name, but I all of a sudden though of Seamus Harper from Andromeda, so I can't spell right now), and I don't think that he will. Other than that, the rest are minor characters, that really don't matter, though I still love that scene in the fifth novel when the death eaters were released from Azkaban, and people finally understood how Harry felt about having his parents' killer on the loose. Wow, that had nothing to do with this, did it?

~La MaitressedeMort

I dont think we'll have a glimpse of whose at Hogwarts, I mean, the story follows Harry, and siince he stated in HBP, he's not coming back now. So, I have to believe that if anything, Hermione and Ron will have small parts in Hogwarts, and then will appear at Harry's side when he needs it the most

I think that who will return depends on what LV does during the summer. If LV goes on the rampage and starts killing muggles and wizards and witches than i think that most everybody(including the twins) will come back. THeir parents will see the need for them to become trained in DADA. If LV doesn't do much during the summer than the parents will not want their children to come but most will because they have come to age. Only those who are not brave enough to challange their parents or those that do not care about hogwarts and wish to follow Dracos path will be absent from Hogwarts.

i think alot of students will come back and hogwarts will reopen i think its like ron said that hogwarts is safer

Dumbledore was the only reason Hogwarts was "Anti- Voldemort Free" and i rekon he will invade Hogwarts and Harry will be there even thought he said he wasnt the OOTP will advise and make him

Well, I dont think many people will come back to Hogwarts again. What, with Dumbledore dead *sigh* and Voldemort roaming around, I dont think that parents would want to send their kids back to Hogwarts. They always said that Dumbledore was the only person Voldemort was ever scared of. So now that he is dead, Voldemort, the greatest wizard of all time, has no fears and is probabaly going to do whatever he wishes. Even though Hogwarts still has all of the Professors in it, Voldemort isnt scared of them he was only scared of Dumbledore.
I wonder if J.K. Rowling will even put Hogwarts in the 7th book.
Well...let's wait and see!

I think initially Harry, Ron and Hermione will not return to Hogwarts, but as their quest to rid the world of deatheathers/horcruxes progresses, they will realise that they need to go back at least to discover Dumbledore's ideas on where they need to go next. Like many have said here, Hogwarts was considered the safest place around, and it would have remained so had it not been for those two vanishing cabinets (and I'm sure the OOTP would have destroyed the one at Hogwarts by now).

HP isn't HP without Hogwarts, but JKR has been slowly expanding the HP world throughout the books, so I'm rather intrigued as to where she will take us next. Probably more intrigued about that than whether anyone will return to Hogwarts really.

Something that no one seems to have considered is that JKR's US publisher at least is Scholastic. They sell a lot of books through the schools and to school libaries. I don't think they would allow her to write something that in anyway encourages kids to drop out of school for whatever reason.

Hi HagridsHero, just thought I'd give you the perspective from the English school system:


In HBP, Harry and Co. are effectively taking their A levels, which are not compulsory. In England, you take your GCSE's at age 15-16 (depending on where your birthday falls in the year) and then have the option to either leave school at 16, or to go on and do A levels between the ages of 16 - 18. So in Hogwarts, OWLS are GCSE's, and NEWTS are A levels.

Don't forget, both Fred and George left school in OOTP before completing their NEWTS, so as far as people like Scholastic are concerned, the dye has already been cast...

I do think some students will not come back. Maybe some of the muggle born students whos parents do not know how big it is for LV to be back will come. I think the weasleys will be allowed back, and Neville. Also im sure if they want to, all the Slytherins would be allowed back. I meen what do they have to be scared of.

i believe that at least pervati will come back, i dont remember much about padma so im not sure if she will try but i think that pervati will run away if she has to because she has been determined for a couple years now to stay at hogwarts, i dont think she will stop before the very last year

I have somthing dumb and concrete to say here. You know how on the spine of all the books it says year (1-6) well if they didnt go back to hogwarts wold it still say year 7? I dont think Jo' would have added that little feature to the book if she wasnt going to have them go back.

I don't think that all of the students will return to Hogwarts because really the only reason why some of them have stayed for this long was becuase of Dumbledore, who is dead. I don't think that Hogwarts is [as] safe without Dumbledore.

Yeah, students that just believe a good side is always win will come back and support Harry CS by pray them Well I hope like that.

i think neville will come back.he seems like the guy that would.i would expect that no slytherins would but probably some gryffindors and maybe even ravenclaw and hufflepuff. hogwarts is going to stay open,jk said there would be a new DADA teacher so we know that.

Yeh it'll open again, everyone but half the slytherins wil come back, harry needs to to become an Auror

yea see,thats the part i dont get.harry wants to become an auror,but he doesnt want to go back to hogwarts.whats up with that?

lilyluvr, where did you see that JK said there will be a new DADA teacher? I must have missed that. Also, Harry does want to be an auror, but he realizes there are more important things than school or a job.

That said, I think Hogwarts will reopen and Harry will go back. All the important characters will return. That is why they are important. Love, friendship, courage or whatever will bring them back.

i dont think he'll come back.he wants to find the horcruxes,so finding them sort of makes him a auto-matic auror,right? i mean,thats way more important than returning to a school,which is not all that safe.

and i did read somewhere that jk said that there will be a new DADA teacher.

New DADA teacher? That should be interesting...
Anyway, I personally think that Harry, Ron, and Hermione will go back to Hogwarts and hunt down the Horcruxes at the same time. How they will do that, I don't know. However, I think that the 3 of them should definatly become Aurors. It would be a fitting ending, if none of them die (which I highly doubt). The only reason I want the three of them to go back is so that they can become Aurors. I think that would make a highly interesting addition to the book. How they will go to school and hunt down Horcruxes and the same time is still a mystery to me. Dumbledore did it by leaving the school from time to time, but I highly doubt McGonagall will let them... who knows? I suppose we'll just have to wait and see.

i think they are going to come back, but to look for horcruxes. harry might want to take a look in the chamber of secrets again, and maybe some other secret parts of hogwarts. i always imagined harry and voldy having the last battle at hogwarts so they might come back.

I think that the trio will go back. I think most of the main charachters will come back. There'll be a new DADA teacher of course. and half of Slythrin will return. I think Harry will either leave the school at some point to find the Horcruxes.

I highly doubt that the trio won't go back to Hogwarts at somepoint b/c that is what book 7 is all about.

If Harry doesn't go back how is he supposed to become an auror any ways?

I'm not sure who will go back but I know that Harry definatley won't be going back to Hogwarts unless he really needs to. He will be too busy searching for horcruxes to bother about his education. His dream to be an auror will have to wait, but I'm pretty sure that after defeating Voldemort he will pretty much prove that the ministry needs him. After all these years he, Harry, was the one person who was able to destroy Voldemort, but of course, he was the only one who could. But who says that he will survive that anyways....

i think that the first person to come will be neville i mean his grandma is strong albus supporter and i think that she will think that albus would want kids to come to school still. The trio on the other hand will also return..i think that after their trip to godric hollow snape will make contact with harry and will explain that the death was arranged and so on. He will then inform of a horcrux of voldemort that lies in hogwarts...well thats what i think a bit far-fetched i know...

When I saw this thread the immediate person that came to my mind was Neville! He has an urge to learn. He is kind of like a sponge- he wants to take in all the information possible. Even if his grandmother doesn't want him to go back, I think Neville will finally stand up for what he wants and tell her.

I am not sure about the trio. On some days I think that they will and on other days I highly doubt it. Today I am in between. I'm sure that Hermione would look at the future and their careers while the boys would only rely on the present. Which turns to the fact that what if they die? They obviously wouldn't have a very bright future. At the moment, I think that first and foremost they want to take Voldemort down at all costs. That is the main concern; to find the horcruxes and destroy Voldemort. Harry won't rest until he does. Maybe they will go back to Hogwarts for other purposes, but not for actual schooling.

haha wen I saw this I thought of Hagrid Not to get an education,but for his gamekeeper duties. I think he,like,might continue because Dumbledore wanted him to.

We know the trio is probaly not going to return,not just because it would be too sad,but because Harry has to go and find the last Horcrux and destroy it,then kill LV.

Hermione and Ron are going to stick by Harry during all of this.

I think that Neville and the Patil twins will return,also Seamus,Dean,Luna,and all the other Gryffindor boys/girls.

ha, i doubt the patil twins will come back.they were like,the first ones to leave hogwarts when.....it happened.(to tragic for me to say ) but i think alot of the students will come back,but im not so sure about neville...because his grandma seems pretty overprotective so...im not so sure.....anyway, i think luna will come back, definetly. i wonder if mrs.weasley will let ginny come back.....

The twins may not come back, but other students' parents are going to want their kids to go to school so they have a better chance at fighting Dark Magic if it ever comes their way.

that might be, but now i dont think much slytherins will come back, if draco is a DE, other slytherins could become them too. or they even might come back as spys. the parents might notice that and not send their children.

hmm, well i think that dumbledore knew he was gonna die, and so he probably did prepare a will and leave things to harry that would help him. I think he gave Harry the penseive and i hope fawkes will be harry's too. anything else useful would probably go to harry.

I hardly think that anybody will return. I mean with the loss of Dumbledore and the countless happenings at Hogwarts parents will probably not allow children to go. The Ministry will probably close down the school and not allow anyone to go there anymore. Well it dosen't really matter anymore because Harry might not be coming back. Even if he does return I don't think that there is a use for Hogwarts as a school at this point.

friggin' FRED AND GOERGE!