1) As we’re told over and over ad nauseum in every book, Harry’s the only person ever to have survived the Killing Curse. Mind you, I’m sure somebody as clever as Dumbledore could have figured out a counter, but he’s the type of guy that’d share it with everybody, not keep it to himself.

2) Snape swore an Unbreakable Vow at the beginning of Book 6 to kill Dumbledore if Draco failed. Once sworn, as we’re told, you break it, you buy…er..the farm, so to speak. Snape is last seen scurrying off into the woods with Draco…so….

I figured Harry’d end up with Ginny in Book 2, to tell you the truth. He saves her life, then she’s totally in the background for most of the rest of the series?

I agree that Harry is the final Horcrux.

I also think Dumbledore is still alive, and that in Book 7 when he asks Snape “Severus, please…” right before Snape appears to have killed him was actually a plea to Snape to follow through with a plan the two of them had already agreed upon. (Specifically, to fake Dumbledore’s death so the Headmaster would be free to operate against Voldemort in secret.) Remember, Dumbledore’s last line to Harry in Goblet gives a hint to whether Snape really killed him. As he told Harry, “The time is coming when people have to decide between doing what’s right and doing what’s easy.” If we assume that Snape’s redemption from the Death Eaters was valid, then what’s harder for him but to let everyone believe him to be evil — and to have killed Dumbledore — when, in fact, he did not.

Harry as Headmaster someday? I hadn’t given it much thought, although I do see him as the Defense Against Dark Arts Prof. If he is, indeed, the final Horcrux, I wonder whether he’d continue to have some taint from Voldemort even after the Dark Lord’s death?

I also think Harry will wind up with Ginny (anyone else notice the striking resemblence between Ginny and Harry’s mom???, and that Hermione will wind up with Ron.

I like Bob’s idea about Neville Longbottom ultimately defeating Voldemort. What poetic justice that would be! Were that to happen, I see Neville as being a perfect Minister of Magic down the road.

Most of all, I agree wholeheartedly with Chelle… Potter fans would’ve sat through a 3-hour Goblet if that’s what it took to stay true to the book.

I, for one, practically “see” the movie in my head as I read the books these days, which makes it all the more frustrating to sit through the real movie and see how much got left out.

Actually, having finished book 6, I think that Harry is a goner at the end of book 7. There’s a lot of speculation about what the final Horcrux is, and neither Dumbledore or Harry are able to come up with it. But think about it…if you’re the most powerful wizard in the world and very fond of living (to the point of killing other people to ensure you don’t kick the bucket any time soon), what better place to put something ensuring you live than in your mortal enemy?

I think the reason the bad guys haven’t been able to kill Harry is that the Dark Lord is playing his own game, which he hasn’t bothered telling any of his followers. He hasn’t killed Harry because he can’t…he hasn’t done it because he doesn’t really want to.

That’s my conspiracy theory, anyway. Sorry I couldn’t work in aliens or Large Mysterious Corporations.

Venomous Kate over at Electric Venom speculates on the possibility that J.K. Rowling will kill-off Harry Potter in the final installment of the series. As evidence, she lets us know

Harry becomes the defence against the dark arts instructor at Hogwarts.

Harry and Ginny couple, along with Ron and Hermione.

That’s what both our 13-year-old daughter, (the TeenWonk), and the WifeWonk thinks.