Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince-SPOILERS!!!!

[billd91]

Or He could have listen to Dumbledore about the powerfull magic of love. It's great relief to Harry share his burdens with a LOVED One. True Love as apposed to Frindship love. She is a target either way and he could have relaxed and enjoyed himself at times to reup his courgage.

But we already know he's got plenty of love going for him already. He doesn't need a specific romantic love to achieve what he has done so far. And he'll have Ron and Hermione with him already. They're of age and can make their own choices about going with him. Ginny can't without there being a lot of trouble.
We'll see how this all turns out. Ginny is like Fred and George. She'll understand what he means but probably completely subvert him anyway.

 

[theRogueRooster]

I want him to survive and become an Auror -- the boy's life has not yet begun, and he deserves a long, quite life after his experiences of youth...

Just to throw my two cents in, I don't think Harry will become an Auror. Once all the dust settles, I think he'll become a teacher: the Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor to be exact.

-tRR

 

[BrooklynKnight]

my two cents.

I think Draco is evil. Evil to the core. He's just a little coward who cant follow through.

We'll definatly see some Dumbledore in book 7. Either as a ghost, or as a portrait.

I dunno how or what Harry will end up as, but honestly, I can see him just taking some time off after Voldemorts defeat, or becoming an Auror and cleaning up the rest of the deatheaters before coming back to Hogwarts as a teacher, and eventually head of Gryffindor. I can see Hermione also coming back to teach.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Just to throw my two cents in, I don't think Harry will become an Auror. Once all the dust settles, I think he'll become a teacher: the Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor to be exact.

It occured to me last night that it may happen even before the dust settles. Harry says he's no coming back to Hogwart's, but what if he's asked to become the next DADA teacher? Especially if the alternative is another Ministry hack?

 

[thalmin]

Since I loaned my book to one of my players, I can't check this myself. Exactly what is the wording of Snape's Unbreakable Vow? And what was the spell Snape used to kill D?
I don't think Dumbledore is dead. Did Snape blast him before anyone else could actually kill the weakened wizard? By pretending to kill Dumbledore, Snape can protect Draco (save his soul and save from Voldemort.)

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Snape used the Avada Kadavra spell, one of the Unforgiveable Curses. And the Vow had a certain amount of plot wiggle room - it was never exactly said what Draco's task was, but it was fairly clearly stated that Snape would do whatever it was if Draco couldn't.

I think there's room for wiggling out of it. Dumbldore shows up in the portraits in the Headmaster's office, which only happens to dead Headmasters. I also think he'll stay dead, since as otehr have noted, this forces Harry to stand on his own.

 

[TanisFrey]

Yes, Peter Parker pushes away MJ in Spiderman, but at the end of SM2, it's a bit different.

By the End of SM2 MJ know of the problems and perils of the relation. And Peter is releived by confideing in someone about his hidden life.

 

[TanisFrey]

Snape used the Avada Kadavra spell, one of the Unforgiveable Curses. And the Vow had a certain amount of plot wiggle room - it was never exactly said what Draco's task was, but it was fairly clearly stated that Snape would do whatever it was if Draco couldn't.

I think there's room for wiggling out of it. Dumbldore shows up in the portraits in the Headmaster's office, which only happens to dead Headmasters. I also think he'll stay dead, since as otehr have noted, this forces Harry to stand on his own.

It was the logical time to kill off Dumbldore. This way Harry can shine in the last book.

 

[Michael Tree]

Also, from what I can gather from reading, you must plan the Horcruces, and there's every reason in the books to believe that Voldemort fully expected to kill Harry.

Yes, and it's likely that Voldemort expected to use the murder of Harry to create his last Horicrux, and so had Horicrux preparations in place. When his spell rebounded, the horicrux preparations may have backfired, making Harry into a horicrux.

Does anyone have the full text of the prophecy handy? I wonder if Harry being a horicrux jives with it.

I definitely think R.A.B. is Regulus Black. As for the other Horicruxes, Mundungus Fletcher stole a lot of items from the Black house, including one silver chalice. The Hufflepuff artifact? A friend of mine also remembers that in the descriptions of his house in OotPhoenix there was a large locket that Harry & friends couldn't open.

 

[Digital M@]

I think I know why Dumbledore KNEW he could trust Snape.

And I know why Dumbledore pleaded with Snape at the end.

Snape told him exactly what the Unbreakable Vow pertained to. Dumbledore wanted Malfoy to have a chance at redemption. The only way for that to happen was for Snape to kill Dumbledore. They both knew it would happen, and it was better for Snape to do it than anyone else.

Very nice, that makes sense, but only time will tell.