Book 6 (Rumours and speculation)

[FeedMeTV]

I've looked around but couldn't find one - maybe I just don't have the right sources.

[timdgreat]

lol, no i havent hear anything either and i try to keep up:rolly2:

[Giorgio]

So, who is going to be the next teacher agains the black arts ?

I think it will be someone new in the sixth book but I think it will be Snape in the seventh !
It just has to be !

[timdgreat]

hmm that actually makes a weird kinda sense, although i doubt it would happen i kinda want dumbledore to become the DADA teacher, that would be cool:rolly2:

[Giorgio]

It's just that Snape really really wants that job and if Dumbledore can't find another teacher ...
It would be easier to find a new teacher for magic drinks.
And it would be funny to see what happens and what Snape teaches Harry.

[little smaug]

Do we actually know that Snape wants the job? Or is that just what the students think?

Though I do think it would be interesting if that happened. But then who would teach Potions?

[Giorgio]

Maybe a new teacher ...
Or Trelawny, now that she doesn't have a job ...

[Dave]

Originally posted by little smaug
Do we actually know that Snape wants the job? Or is that just what the students think?

That's true, I think he is happy teaching potions, but simply feels that the Defence of the Dark Arts teachers have been pretty unsatisfactory, and that he could do better.

[FeedMeTV]

Originally posted by Dave
I think he is happy teaching potions

I don't think Snape's ever what you'd call happy lol.

[little smaug]

Threatening to poison all the kids? That'd make me happy!

[timdgreat]

lmao, yeah i can see how it would

i think the idea that he just isnt happy with the way the post has been run is more to blame with the rumors saying he wants the position, but i just cant see him moving out of his dungeon and teacking DADA:rolly2:

[Dave]

Some more spoilers follow:

from Scifi Wire

Rowling Teases New Potter

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling offered up hints to future novels while answering children's questions at the Edinburgh Book Festival on Aug. 15, her official Web site reported. "Well, I don't think it is giving too much away to say that [Harry] will survive to book seven, mainly because I do not want to be strangled by you lot, but I am not going to say whether he grows any older than that, because I have never said that. You are good at putting me on the spot!"

Rowling, who is currently writing the sixth volume in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, talked about the new books in an elliptical way. "I thought that I would give you something though, rather than get to the end of today and think that I have not given you a lot. There are two questions that I have never been asked, but that I should have been asked, if you know what I mean. If you want to speculate on anything, you should speculate on these two things, which will point you in the right direction. The first question that I have never been asked—it has probably been asked in a chatroom, but no one has ever asked me—is, 'Why didn't Voldemort die?' Not 'Why did Harry live?' but, 'Why didn't Voldemort die?' The killing curse rebounded, so he should have died. Why didn't he? At the end of Goblet of Fire he says that one or more of the steps that he took enabled him to survive. You should be wondering what he did to make sure that he did not die. I will put it that way. I don't think that it is guessable. It may be—someone could guess it—but you should be asking yourself that question, particularly now that you know about the prophecy. I'd better stop there, or I will really incriminate myself."

Rowling added, "The other question that I am surprised no one has asked me since [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] came out—I thought that people would—is why Dumbledore did not kill or try to kill Voldemort in the scene in the ministry? I know that I am giving a lot away to people who have not read the book. Although Dumbledore gives a kind of reason to Voldemort, it is not the real reason. When I mentioned that question to my husband—I told Neil [Murray] that I was going to mention it to you—he said that it was because Voldemort knows that there are two more books to come. As you can see, we are on the same literary wavelength. [Laughs.] That is not the answer; Dumbledore knows something slightly more profound than that. If you want to wonder about anything, I would advise you to concentrate on those two questions. That might take you a little bit further."

[little smaug]

Hmm, interesting. The way I interpreted the prophecy was, either Harry kills Voldemort, or Voldemort kills Harry. So the curse didn't kill Voldemort, because he delivered it, not Harry.

*shrug* Any other ideas?

[Dave]

I think that somehow Harry and Voldemort were linked together by the spell. I'm not sure if she is joking, but she has said many times that the Seventh book is the last because Harry may not survive, which leads me to think that he dies. The only explanation for that is that he must die for Voldemort to die too.

The actual spell cast by Harry's mother needs futher explanation though. Didn't she sacrifice herself to save Harry? I think that has some bearing on it all.

I think there will be some kind of final battle at the end of book 7 in which they both die. What if Voldemort was to tell Harry, "I am your father!"

[little smaug]

Lol, that would be great! "You killed my father!" "No, Harry, I am your father!" :lol: :rolly2:

Good theory, tho. It'd definately be a shocker if the only way to get rid of Voldemort is for Harry to die as well. Though I think JK would have to spend the rest of her life running from an angry mob!