The witching hour, or should that be wizarding hour, is almost upon us and I will be getting up nice and early on Saturday morning, leaping into my Magic Micra and flying off to the nearest Tesco where I will grab my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and some fresh croissants so that I can start reading it at breakfast and continue throughout the rest of the day. I have a friend coming round for supper that evening who is also an HP fan, so if I can finish it in time, I can pass it on to her.
I have just re-read HP and the Half-Blood Prince in order to remind myself of exactly how we left it at the end of the last story and this has also helped me remember the opinion I held at the time and which I discussed at great length with my daughter, Kathryn, who is a huge fan and had read it in one gulp like mois and needed to go over every page with someone equally deranged. She turned to her mother. Naturally….
I am not going to go into detail just in case there is anybody out there who (a) is not interested in HP or (b) is, but has yet to read this one and is catching up, but I feel there is a certain ambivalence to the prophecy that decrees Harry must kill Voldemort or vice versa. This comes on pages 476-477 when Harry and Dumbledore are discussing the outcome and the following dialogue takes place:
"You are setting too much store by the prophecy Harry"
"But" spluttered Harry "You said the prophecy means…"
"If Voldemort had never heard of the prophecy would it have been fulfilled? Would it mean anything? of course not. Do you think every Prophecy in the Hall if Prophecy has been fulfilled?"
This little conversation makes the outcome less clear cut than everyone thinks it is going to be. I am, 
therefore, biding my time on this one. I have a few ideas of how it will end and I will be most interested to see if I am right, or way off the mark.
So, I have taken out my Harry Potter stationery set and have written down what I think is going to happen and sealed the envelope with a Charm and will only open it when I have finished HP7 and see if I am right/wrong. I will be very honest about this and let you all know if I have hit the mark in any way at all.
And, despite everything, I still trust Snape…..
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