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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Donovan Morningfire" data-source="post: 3117470" data-attributes="member: 39532">To get back to Harry and the Horcruxes (sounds like a 50's band, don't it?)...Rowling's left a lot of possiblities that the search could go much quicker than we think.  After all, there's RAB (mostly speculated to be Sirius' younger brother Regulas), and that the real locket is actually at 12 Grimmauld Place.  There's also Kreatcher, who may know plenty about the horcruxes due to having been helping Regulas Black track down/find them.  And I highly doubt the remaining Order of the Phoenix members are going to abandon Harry at this point in the game, especially not the last Marauder or the Weasleys, who see Harry as pretty much being one of their own.Yeah, right now things are looking bleak for the good guys.  From the common appearance, with Dumbledore's death, Voldemort looks poised to take it all.  But how many times in other stories and films have we seen the Big Bad on the precipice of victory only to be toppled by the hero that was deemed at best a minor threat at the last moment?  And when it's against all odds, doesn't that make the final victory for the good guys that much sweeter?If anyone's interested in some theories, some of which are really good, check out the editorial section over at <a href="http://www.mugglenet.com" target="_blank">www.mugglenet.com</a>.  Even Mrs. Rowling has been impressed with the editorials written there.  They've pondered the seeking of the horcruxes, as well as the final battle between Harry and Voldemort.  I personally think that the simple fact Harry is so easily able to conjure a corporeal Patronus is going to play a part in the final battle.  Of course, who's to say that Dumbledore didn't plan on his not being around when the time came for Harry to face his destiny, and thus leaving Harry some advice or tips on really advanced defensive magic?***As for Snape and his "teaching" methods, perhaps Dumbledore's reason for not intervening is to teach the students (and younger readers) some real-world lessons in that you're not going to be able to get along with everyone, and you've just got to work around that.  But then again, most reputable schools would have tossed a teacher like Snape out on his greasy bum a long time ago, where Albus kept him around since he knew that he'd have need of Snape's spying services again some day.***Since the movies came out, my mind's eye has been painting the characters as looking/sounding like their respective actors.  Of course, I only started reading the books after seeing the first movie, so that's not that surprising.</blockquote>

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