Anyway, School year is over, a new headquarters is found, and Harry, who has been studying hard all year is now much more powerful than the end of the last book. He is asked by dumbledore to join the Order of the Phoenix now that they have reformed with new headquarters, but Harry declines. Harry comes clean about how it was Voldemort who read his mind and figured out where the Order's headquarters was. Everyone apologizes to snape, he is reinstated. Snape tells how Harry finally has control, but the link between Harry and voldemort is still there, so Harry can't join the Order of the Phoenix. Over all, not much action, it's all psychological except for the destruction of the previous headquarters for the Order of the phoenix. Most of the story revolves around Harry and how he searches for who he really is, what he wants to do. His character is going to built up alot. We will find out more information about his parents. Harry will alienate himself to some degree against everyone, because he knows that he has to be able to choose the good of the many over the good of saving a few friends. We find out more about his parents from some old person.. especially his mom. Maybe an ex-boyfriend of hers or something, if Tonks is not the new DagainstA Teacher, then whomever that is will tell Harry more about his mom. Voldemort never makes a single appearence since he is busy recruiting new Death Eaters, freeing the other death eaters, and rallying his powers for the final showdown.... oh, and of course Draco Malfoy and his buds get turned into toads or something goofy at the end, again.
Harry knows this, and he wants to go on the offensive. He has gathered "Dumbledore's Army", and is trying to convinced them to go with him to figure out what to do about Voldemort, how to attack Voldemort before the Dark Lord can attack them.. BUT, Voldemort and the Death Eaters, and the Giants, and the Dementors Attack HOGWARTS in May. This is the Final Battle.
DA and the Teachers (and several members of the Order of the Phoenix who have been guarding Hogwarts/on watch/something/new professors/something) defend. Slytherin, especially the children of the Death Eaters are the ones who open the doors for Voldemort and his Army. Epic Battle. Harry is now a Bad Ass. He runs around looking for Voldemort, having trouble finding him, he turns the tide of any skirmish that he joins, but over all it a struggle, and it looks like Voldemort is slowly winning. The Order of the Phoenix, and the Aurors arrive and they turn the course of the battle. Of course the Ministry of Magic Re-enforcements arrive a little late to the scene. It comes down to Harry and Voldemort, and they battle. Harry wins... barely...might involve some super weapon, an injured Harry will face a choice very dramatic choice: save some students or kill voldemort. He kills Voldemort, after Voldemort gets a number of students, several from "Dumbledore's Army" - hard to predict who, but it hurts.
The Mauraders map, and early tactical advantage for Harry gets Destroyed. Mad Eye Moody finally gets killed, no bad guys left for him to worry about. Mcgonagall lead some teachers on a rampage, fairly sucessful. Hermione is pretty decent. Ron suffers some set backs, barely makes it out, but is trimuphant. Dumbledore, if dead becomes a ghost, or recovers, eitherway he leaves his post as Headmaster, someone new takes over. Harry might become the new (and permenant) defense against the Dark Arts Teacher, who better than the man that Vanquished Voldemort? Snape, although on better terms with Harry, is still pissed. Ron and Hermione finally realize their romance, sorry Victor Krum, you lose. Mcgonagall give Harry 100 points to Gryfindor for beating the Dark Lord, and again, Gryfindor wins the house cup. The Dementors are vanquished-gone, destroyed, no longer around. The Death Eaters are all either killed, or imprisoned. The Giants, who knows, who cares?
Book 7 is gonna be action action action. The final battle is gonna take up a large portion of the book, maybe even last a couple days, since Hogwarts is pretty big.
And those are Eric and my predictions. Whaddya think? am I off my rocker? is that sufficently twisty and surprising? I think that's pretty close to what has to happen to end the series.
Larry Hagman of Dallas and I Dream of Genie fame sez: "When I die, I want my friends to eat me," Hagman told celebrity researcher Baird Jones the other day. "I want to be fed through a wood chipper, be spread over a wheat field, then have a cake baked from the crop for all my pals to munch on."Don't think he hasn't contemplated the alternatives.
"Cremation's fine, but it uses an awful lot of energy," Hagman says. "Burying someone in a steel casket doesn't do any good. I want to return to the earth as soon as possible."
Thus, the cake plan.
"I want the cake to be made of half marijuana, which makes people so much less violent than booze, and people should learn to eat pot rather than smoke it because it damages the heart and lungs less that way," Hagman opines.
Shocked at the aging actor's drug endorsement? Hagman contends you shouldn't be, bleating, "It's high time someone my age talked this way."
High being the operative word.
as seen in New Scientist on 9/16/2002, the online edition.SILLY theory of the week comes via the Japanese news site Mainichi, which features "saucy stories from Japan's wild weeklies". (http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai). According to Rikao Yanagida, described by Mainichi as "head of a think tank", the dinosaurs died out not because of an asteroid impact but because they made too much noise when they were mating.
"Even if you calculated that dinosaurs only have the same impact when thrusting as humans," Yanagida told the weekly Shukan Hoseki, "at 100 tonnes, thrusting every 6.7 seconds would create 2200 kilowatts of energy. About 50 per cent of that energy becomes noise. If dinosaurs were having sex, the noise would be tremendous. It would kill any humans within a 130-metre radius.
"What's more, omnivorous dinosaurs travelled in groups, so when they had sex the sounds they emitted would have killed off all the small dinosaurs around them. That robbed the carnivorous dinosaurs of their food, making them extinct, too."
Interesting idea, but somehow we're more convinced by the asteroid impact theory.
as seen in wired.com on 9/27/2002Hey, No Joke
Natural blondes are a dying species and may be extinct within 200 years, researchers in Germany are saying. And they've narrowed it down, too: The last truly natural blonde will be born in Finland sometime before 2202. The problems are twofold. First, in order to have blonde hair, a child must have the necessary gene on both sides of the family in the grandparents' generation. And second, the researchers believe that "bottle blondes" -- women who dye their hair -- are more attractive to men, who generally prefer them to real blondes. There's a punchline in there someplace.
