So which countdown to the end was more bittersweet, the marking of time until Phish’s final concert in Coventry, Vermont in 2004 or the countdown to the final Harry Potter book is released at the stroke of midnight on Saturday July 21?
Nationwide Harry-mania will go from the normal “dull roar” to “New Year’s Eve crazy” since Order of the Phoenix premieres on July 13, eight days before the final book hits shelves in a Midnight Madness sale. Here is the trailer by the way.
So many questions, so few pages. Is Professor Snape really evil or just acting under orders from the now deceased Albus Dumbledore. How much will focus on Hogwarts itself with its new Headmistress Minerva McGonagall and how much will follow the search for the horcruxes containing Voldemort’s soul. Who is going to kill Draco Malfoy? Harry? Voldemort? Ron or Hermione? When will Draco bite it – the beginning or the end? After all, alot of characters have quite a come-uppance due them: Peter Pettigrew, The Malfoys, Bellatrix LeStrange, Death Eaters, Crabbe and Goyle..
Rowling is clearly certain she is going out with a bang. Among other poignant comments on her website she wrote:
“One thing has stopped me from collapsing in a puddle of misery on the floor. While each of the Harry Potter Books holds a special place in my heart, Deathly Hallows is my favorite.”
That bodes well for us, because she has gotten better with each passing book.
Anyway, here are MY predictions for Book 7.
1. Harry dies. I’m sorry everybody, but Disney was wrong, it’s not a small world after all ***insert sing-song, hold hands ring-around-the-rosie*** The Brits know that’s all just pure weapons-grade bolonium. Why do you think J.K. is so crushed by the end and yet is so psyched it’s her best. For everybody out there saying only a happy ending will work and it’s not good literature if she kills them off and I won’t like it if Harry dies, I have three simple words for you…
ROMEO AND JULIET
Seriously, there’s PLENTY of outstanding literature where we lose the great protagonist. Hell Achilles doesn’t exactly make it far in The Iliad does he? Tragedy is far, far, far more cathartic than comedy. Everybody saying “it can’t possibly work as a tragedy – especially the dipstick professor from some crappy university – can shut the hell up. By the way, yes, Voldemort is destroyed at the end as well.
2. Peter Pettigrew will SOMEHOW redeem himself. Remember the line of Dumbledore’s from Prisoner of Azkaban, that Pettigrew owed Harry his life and that somehow tied their destinies together. At the least, Pettigrew’s debt to harry will result somehow in aiding Voldomort’s downfall.
3. Draco and his family get their just deserts, finally.
4. My bet is Hagrid will die instead of Ron Weasley, but off-shore bookies have solid odds that at least one Weasley will die.
5. A lot of members of the Order and even some more Hogwarts students will get killed. These are the Death Eaters after all tha they are fighting, not a bunch of nimrods from advanced chemistry class in highwaters and pocket protectors.
As for Snape…boy I can’t figure him out for the life of me. I can’t possibly see how he possibly could be good, but J.K. weaves such intricate plots webs my guess is she’ll make him good in the end and we’ll all be amazed at how we didn’t have the wit to see it.
And now we wait.
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