What to Expect for Book 6

Part 2
By Nina TH

    In my last article I wrote about some of the questions surrounding book 6. This article is a follow up to the last one, so I guess I'll just begin…

What will happen with Luna, Ginny and Neville?
    These characters are the new heroes of the Harry Potter books. They fought gracefully to help our friend Harry, and they went from being small characters to being important to the plot. But what now?

-Luna: I think we'll be seeing much more to Luna in book 6. We all know how Harry felt like he could talk to her about Sirius. I'm pretty sure Harry will feel a lot closer to Luna after their meeting at the end of the school year. Maybe we'll even see her before school starts? In GoF, when the Weasleys, Harry and Hermione and the Diggorys are about to grab the portkey, Mr. Diggory asks: "What about the Lovegoods?". Mr. Weasley's respons is: "They couldn't make it.". This meens that the Lovegood family lives in the same area as the Weasleys! If Harry is to stay at the Weasleys (I'm not sure that would be safe…), maybe they will meet Luna or something there! Although I don't think that Harry will spend his summer there, but I'll get back to that later…

-Ginny: Ginny used to be a sweet little girl. In book five we saw her evolving into a brave, powerful, strong young woman. She is no longer "Ron's little sister", she is her own character. I think Ginny will spend a lot more time with the trio from now on. She has matured into a character who I'm sure Rowling has great plans for. She will definitely get a lot more adventure in the future books after showing the great amount of bravery she did in book five.

-Neville: Neville will be much more important in book six! He was a part of the prophecy since it could have been about him. However, we learned that it was not about Neville, but about Harry. Some people say this is wrong. It is really Neville the prophecy is about, and Neville will triumph over Voldemort. I think we have enough proof that this cannot be: Voldemort lost his powers when he tried to kill Harry as a baby. It's like Dumbledore said: Voldemort chose Harry. And choice is a very important word in the HP books. Neville also made great progress in the fifth book. I think he'll get even stronger when he gets a new wand. The wand chooses the wizard. Neville had his father's wand, so it would make sense that if he gets a wand that fits him, not his fathers', it'll be easier for him to perform wand magic. I think Neville also will be around the trio a lot more in the future books…

Who will be the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain?
    Well first of all: Who are the candidates? Harry, Ron and Ginny. I don't think the new beaters can be considered qualified, the chasers are leaving and Fred and George have already left. And since Ginny is not officially on the team yet, we can eliminate her too. So only Harry and Ron left. Both of them are good candidates, but who would do the best job? Harry diffidently has the best experience so I think it will be him. Of course, I also thought Harry would be the prefect, so I could be wrong. But if Ron gets to be Quidditch captain, will Harry be jealous again? We saw his reaction when Ron was made prefect, but he got over it… right? I have to mention what Ron saw in the mirror of Erised. He has already been made prefect, and he has held the Quidditch cup. He's only missing the Quidditch captain and Head Boy role. But the mirror was just an illusion. Harry saw himself with his parents and the rest of his family, but we know this is impossible. If you want to read more about this subject, you should read the Magical Musings article number 6.
Malfoy may very well become the Slytherin Captain as well.

Where will Harry spend his summer?
    He will spend parts of it in Privet Drive, that should be obvious. But he's not going to stay there all summer. Here's a chat I found on the web:

Adele: Will poor Harry be stuck at the Dursleys' all next summer?

JK Rowling: Not all summer, no. In fact, he has the shortest stay in Privet Drive so far.

    So... where will he go? I don't think it will be to The Burrow, It's not exactly the safest place to be is it? Where would it be safe to go? Grimmauld Place? I think the safest place will be privet drive, so it doesn't make much sense to me that he's not there… Apart from PD, I think Grimmauld Place is the safest. But how will Harry feel to go back to Sirius's house? And since Sirius was Harry's godfather, does Grimmauld Place belong to Harry? If it does, so does Kreacher. This would lead to many problems and conflicts I'm not even going to start on! Apart from Grimmauld Place, where can he be safe? Maybe we will finally get to see where Hermione lives? She's a muggleborn with muggle parents. Maybe it's harder for the death eaters to find Muggle houses than wizard homes. They don't have connections in the muggle world, so maybe they can't find Hermione's house as easily. I personally think he'll get to travel somewhere we haven't heard of yet…

What about Grawp?
    The last thing we heard from Grawp was when Hagrid told Harry he was behaving a lot better. He was also mentioning getting him "a lady friend", but I don't think (hope) he will. But will Dumbledore allow Grawp to stay? He is, as we have learned, a danger to the students and high inquisitors ;) If Grawp is allowed to stay, I think Hermione will go visit him since she was so amazed when he remembered her name. I also think Grawp will be a good weapon in the second war. Maybe Grawp will be the "person" who gets all the other giants to join "the good side"? Or will the other giants make Grawp move over to the dark side? Either way I think Grawp will be important to the plot somehow. He did save Harry and Hermione in the fifth book, maybe he'll do it again?

    That's all I had for now. I hope you enjoyed and that you will read my next article! Unfortunately that might be a while.. I'm going on vacation for about two months now, so I won't be able to write. I might have time for one more article before I go, but I can't make any promises. So I won't be back before August. But until then, have a great summer!