I think that Hogwarts will certainly open. McGonagall will make a great headmistress. Besides...it would be a pretty boring book if there was not Hogwarts. I don't think Harry will go back to school but the school will definitly be open.
oops, got my sums wrong, I would have been 11-12 in OoTP academic year (1995-1996) and the cut off point for academic year grouping is September birthdays.
But if Harry is responsible, is he going to listen to whether he's innocent or not? If Harry corners him somehow... maybe JK won't make Harry too dark. Whatever. I just don't like him.
I think that Snape should pay for what he did if it wasn't just staged or something, but I don't think he should die. I wouldn't want Harry to become a murderer. Send him to Azkaban for life or something. He's not worth it, although he must at least go under the highest security at Azkaban for what he did to Dumbledore.
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IF it was real, IF he wasn't just doing as DD directed. I think it's all part of a master plan. We should really start giving credit where credit's due, to the characters and the author.
You are so right. When you look at the books so far, you realise just how far ahead JK would actually have had to plan. Every book impresses me more. (Thinking mainly about her tiny-detail-later-revealed-to-be-significant thing that seems to be going on.)
It will re-open if it doesnt it will be cutting out to many characters out of the book and Dumbledore died for nothing sure he died for Snape to get close to Voldemort and to Get Harry Pumped to kill him but Dumbledores main Priorty is the education of the students of Hogwarts now he wouldnt let himself be killed if he knew the school wouldnt re-open
I can see it both ways...but in all actuality, Hogwarts doesn't NEED to re-open. Harry has already learned everything he needs. I think the 7th book will focus mainly on the Order. Hogwarts isn't a safe place for the students/faculty, the Death Eaters got in, didn't they? We know that 17 Grimmauld Place is Harry's, so the Order could go there. No, this year is going to have to be spent searching for, and destroying the remaining Horcruxes...