Another theory that came up in my musings was those lines where Prof. McGonagal and Umbridge are bickering about how there may be a new Minister of Magic by the time Harry comes of age. Will Fudge continue to be the Minister by the time all is said and done? How is the government system in the magical world? Here in America and in many other countries, there are time limits to terms of positions with a great deal of power. Will Fudge have to "run again" for re-election? Is any of this really significant now that Fudge is acknowledging the truth? Will he try to help Harry, also? Will he be a useful ally or will he be as useless and annoying as he's been in the past? Is he hiding anything?

I think that book 6 will be a bridge between 5 and 7, kind of like 3 was. There was a great showdown between Harry and Voldemort in 1,2,4 and 5 so there may not be a showdown between the two of them at all in 6. Voldemort might be planning and scheming and doing other things in book 6. Or book 6 could have a showdown between Dumbledore and Voldemort where Dumbledore dies and Harry goes out to avenge his death in 7.

The question also remains as to who will be the new DADA teacher. Will he or she be an asset to Harry and will the position will continue it's streak of bad luck? JK Rowling has already proven that she likes to break trends of things, people or events. Very little has remained constant throughout the books so maybe there will be only one DADA teacher for the two years.

In regards to everyone’s favorite kid, Malfoy. What will become of him? Malfoy is growing older and stronger as the years go by along with Harry. He’s not the most powerful of wizards but we’ve seen that you don’t have to be a great wizard to cause a lot of damage (Peter Pettigrew). His hatred for Harry may fuel something terrible in him that could cause Harry more damage then anybody realizes. Will Draco Malfoy join his father in the Death Eaters? The Order of the Phoenix requires wizards of age (although it may be that they will break this rule for Harry since it all comes down to him) but do the Death Eaters have to be a certain age to join? We know now that Malfoy won’t walk around boasting about his father anymore since everyone now knows what kind of a piece of garbage this wealthy wizard really is. It’s clear the other two houses (Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff) like to take Gryffindor’s side in everything against Slytherin. So far of what we’ve seen is that Malfoy only has friends in Slytherin, where as Harry and his friends have friends throughout the three houses (Luna, Ernie). Liking Malfoy isn’t easy so how will his “friends” in Slytherin (Pansy for example) treat him now that everyone knows the truth about the Malfoys. Bad guys are notorious for bailing on each other when the stakes are down. Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Theodore Nott and any other children of Death Eaters may now have to band together (and maybe start their own group: Junior Death Eaters…ha ha). (Flower Child)

Therefore, if this is his 500th anniversary of his death in 1492 then the date of the party Harry attended in his 2nd year after recently turning 12 is 1992 --- which means he was born in 1980. Reading further Tom Riddle opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years prior when he was 16 --- which means Tom M. Riddle was born in 1926 (Paul M.T. W.)

• Something I found very strange in the 5th book is the use of the two names Purkiss and Perkins. They sound very much the same, don't you think?? Doris Purkiss is the woman, who thinks that Sirius is Stubby Boardman and Perkins is the name of the man who works in the same office as Arthur Weasley. BUT this is not the only time his name was mentioned. In the chapter Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four (page 318) it is mentioned again. They are having a History of Magic class and Hedwig comes in, hurt. When Harry asks if he can go, Professor Binns tells him: Yes,...yes, hospital wing, ... well, off you go, then, Perkins... Even Binns should know that Harry isn't called Perkins, but Potter! So why does he mix up the names??? (Emily Miller)

1. In the last book, Harry may need to choose between living in this world or going 'beyond the veil' to be reunited with his parents and Sirius. Of course he'd have to kill
Voldemort first.
2. Since Snape is a member of the order, will his loyalty lie with Harry who has close ties to the order, or will he still side with Malfoy even though his father has been proven
to be a death eater?
3. Is Tonks the new DADA teacher?
4. When Rowling wrote about the magazine being banned, but then everyone raced out to get a copy, was it a dig at those schools etc who banned Harry Potter from their
libraries?
5. Why does Harry always get in trouble for doing magic outside Hogwarts, but Fred and George spent their holiday Apparating and Disapperating?
6. Harry should know by now to take Dumbledore at his word, and if Dumbledore says to do something he should trust him. By the same token, Dumbledore should realise if he wants Harry to do something and it's important, he should give him reasons. If they communicated properly, most terrible things could be avoided.
7. Harry and Snape should grow up and sort out their differences. Harry still has to take potions, and is likely to join the order, so they will be part of each other's lives for a long time. They know a lot about each other. Harry saying he'll never forgive Snape, even though Snape went off to get Sirius etc shows he can still be very immature. Snape failing Harry for no reason shows he can be immature. They could learn a lot from each other if they put the past behind them. They don't need to be friends, just have a working relationship!
8. Is Lupin going to play a bigger part in Harry's life now? He's the last of James' school friends who can do so.
9. If Hagrid knew about the Thestrels, and Luna and Neville could see them, why didn't everyone know about them? When they first arrived and everyone was talking about the 'horseless Carriages' why didn't someone who could see them say 'Actually, they're pulled by these huge big horse-things......'
10. Why was Grawp brought into the story? Obviously something major is going to happen with the giants in the next couple of books. Are they going to join up with the
order? Dumbledore once mentioned it would be a good idea.? (Anthony)

• Finally I found one site that mention the disapearance of our little fellow Wormtail. I don't recall that he's dead by the end of book 4. In OoTP, his name was mentioned only twice. One is when Sirius think that Wormtail told Voldy that he is Padfoot and when Harry saw him in old photograph of first Order. Other than that, we have no clue. Here's my speculation:

Wormtail is (polyjuiced) Fudge. Fudge in OoTP is rather strange and growing very unfriendly to Harry. Remember how he treat Harry during PoA by giving him shelter and "protection" form Sirius? He was willingly to break his own rules to protect Harry.
And think how Harry and his friend could be so easily enter Ministry office (through visitor entrance!) all the way to Department of Magic. More than that, how could a dozen of masked Death Eater enter the office afterward? I smell a rat..

No, Fudge is not under Imperius Curse. Mr Weasley specifically mentioned this after Harry's hearing. (Irvan Kartawiria)

• I believe that if there is to be a new Minister of Magic it will be Amelia Bones. Dumbledore won’t accept the position if offered and Bones seemed like a fair person, plus, I’m sure that JKR would like to have a female in charge since she generally tends to forget about them. Girl Power! (Soledad)

•This is what i believe is going to happen in the future of Harry Potter. Book six Hermione will be injured by Voldemort and when she is in the hospital wing, Ron and Harry will both go after Voldemort. Ron who we all know is smitten with Hermione will surprise us all with the power that he has, but it will not be enough, Ron will either be permentantly injured or he will die. Harry will have the opportunity to kill Voldemort but will fail, he will loose his nerve. Lupin is going to be the new Harry father substitute and will play a big part in the next book. The end of this series is going to end in a blood bath. JKR told us that there were going to be very few survivors. In book seven Harry will learn to the full exstent his connection with Voldemort and learn of an ancient magic that binds them. He will have to sacrifice himself in order to kill Voldemort, after all didn't Dumbledore say that the power he has is in Love and what greater love can Harry give then his love for the wizarding community and Hogwarts by saving them all.
It will not be Dumbledore that tells Harry of this connection, because as we know Dumbledore struggled at telling him of the prophecy he wont be able to tell him of this. It will be Snape that tells him and this will be his way of redeeming himself. The last word of the book is supposidly 'scar'. I think this will refer to a statue of Harry in Hogwarts. A lot of people are going to die in the last book. I think Hagrid will go, Lupin definatly and i think Ron will die in Book six. There needs to be alot of death because Harry has to loose everything to make that big sacrifice he also has to be angry enough. Ithink that Draco Malfoy secretly likes Hermione and will join sides with Harry in the end for her. Hermione and Dumbledore will survive in the end of it. I want to know how Peter Pettegrew is going to tie into all of this, wether there is a significance with Harry's eyes, Whats Dumbledore going to do in the next books and how is Voldemort's snake going to tie into things. (Debbie)

• I knew I recognized Sturgis Podmore's name from somewhere else. So I went back and looked. It was Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore from the Headless Hunt in COS. Is there any relation between the two of them? I thought that was interesting because JKR almost never has a "coincidence" in her books. I wonder if there is a good reason that she used the name twice (Flower Child)

• Ok, this may be a completely wild theory but here goes. JKR has impressd the fact that Dean Thomas is an excellent artist.We also know that it's mostly (if not always) potraits or paintings and not photographs that people can converse with, especially since the subject has always been dead. It seems pretty useful and an easy way to keep people "alive". Now people have mentioned that JKR couldn't have completely "killed" Sirius. I personally think he's dead, as are Harry's parents. I also don't believe that any of them will come back as ghosts. I have surmised that perhaps Harry will be able to speak to them as portraits and may be Dean Thomas will be the one to bring them (or at least Sirius) "back to life" in the "potrait sense". I don't know how the potraits can bring people back to life, whether the subject is dead or not when it's done but if it can be done, then why shouldn't Dean give Harry the gift of kind of having Sirius and his parents back? I think Dean's artistic talent will play some kind of a role because why else has JKR told us numerous times that he's an excellent artist? (Flower Child)

• I just thought of something.

Hermione is ALWAYS saying, " You can't disapparate inside the grounds, " "You can't enter by stealth" etc etc. well...it must be for SOME reason. i suppose it could just be a joke JK likes, but what if it it's something more? maybe someone tries to get in or gets in and tries to get out and can't? Like, i dunno, a death eater or something, and then they get caught? Just thought it was weird how they keep going on about it. (Hannah xxx)

• Well, I know what you mean. I read some interesting comment on this site. Somebody wonders about the fact that Dobby 'visits' Harry in the hospital wing, when his bones re-grow. Suddenly Dobby hears somebody coming and guess what! He DISAPPARATES!!!!!! Strange, isn't it? But I'm sure that you know that houseelves are very powerful, on which is laid an emphasis too. I really don't know why, but something tells me that THIS IS A HINT!!!!! ;-) (Sylvana)

• In the fourth book it is mentioned that house elves use a different kind of magic, and the could be why house elves can apparate inside Hogwarts. ( Meg )

• Crookshanks... who I believe was James and Lily's cat. He's very comfortable with Sirius Black. He's also extremely smart and even though Sirius never knew the cat, James and Lily could have talked about him around Crookshanks. The shopkeeper also said he'd had Crookshanks for a very long time and that no one wanted him. He also took a liking to Harry straight away. His legs were also wobbly, as though he'd been hurt...perhaps when Lily was killed and the house was detroyed. Maybe he'd been trapped but managed to get out. But he was left injured. Just an idea. (Kate J)

• I wonder if anybody saw the fact of Mundungus. Dumbledore told Harry that one person heard the begining of the prophecy before been saked. Before that, Sirius had told Harry that Mundungus was saked about twenty years ago, what if he missed for about four years?, we know that Mundungus sells everything, even a bit of information...

Another thing, i think that any wizard or witch can do magic without a wand, the difference is that the wand´s objective is to canalize the force of the wizard to focus in a spell, hax or anything, but Harry dont seem to need a wand, he can canalize his spells without a wand. The only creatures that can make magic without a wand are house elves and goblins (and phoenix), but we know that a wand is definitly necesary to make magic, because without a wand you are condemned to act like a muggle ( we can see Hagrid punishment: they broked his wand in two).

Now that Harry knows everything about his destiny, i think it seems logical, that Dumbledore teach Harry to fight "like Voldemort does", or like Dumbledore, new Harry´s mission will be to teach DA every new spell, hax or whatever new thing Dumbledore´ll teach him.

I can see a great battle at the end of the seventh book, DA besides the MoM, giants, house elves, centaurs, etc. fighting DE and Dementors, some Giants and goblins, and of course: Voldemort. Wich another idea could Rowling have making Harry to teach the Patronus course if it wasnt a battle against the dementors? (Oswaldo Lopez)