Harry Potter and the Last Book (Now with Discussion of Books 1-6!!)

There hasn't been a Harry Potter thread yet, so I thought it would be as good a time as ever.

Primarily though, I wanted to use this as a vehicle to put forth an oft-discussed possibility: what if J.K. Rowling dies before completing the last book? Are there any particular theories you've heard of or made that you favor in particular that you'll carry as your own personal ending for the series?

So yeah, discuss your thoughts on the series, but also what you think will happen in book 7!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Oh yeah.

Spoiler:

Who do you think R.A.B. is?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Enkidu

If the task is the only thing the unbreakable vow was about, Snape wasn't forced to kill Dumbledore, and he did it out of his own free will.

SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE?! NO!! YOU BITCH, YOU BITCH.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Kilroy

Hmm, I once visited a website called something like www.dumbledoreisnotdead.com, and the author had some good arguments. One I remember clear is this: We've encountered Avada Kadavra some times now. Fake-Moody on a spider, Wormtail on Cedric... It is described as a green flash, and then the targeted person just falls over. However, when Snape uses it, Dumbledore is flung from the tower. The actual force sends him flying. Why? The author's guess? Since non verbal spells played a pretty large part in 6, chances are that while Snape said Avada, he thought something else. All smoke and mirrors. It would also fit the phoenix associations coming from the casket erupting into flames and such. I could actually see Dumbledore coming out of this alive.

Cheers for the link. Some good reading and theorizing without having to wade through "OMG DUMLEDOR NOT DED?" threads everywhere else.

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