I think I know who RAB is. I suspect most of you do too. I also have a sneaking suspicion I know what the final Horcrux is, although I would have to go back and reread some stuff from the earlier books to be sure.
Rowling has pretty much confirmed who R.A.B. is. She's not really being very secretive about that one. And I have a theory (not my own, but one I heard and that makes the most sense) about how he stole the Horcrux, too.
I have many possible 'last Horcrux' theories, the primary one involving an error Dumbledore made when he said the sword was the last surviving artefact of Godric Gryffindor.
I don't really remember the prophecy, but hm, isn't Draco Malfoy's birthday in June? Something really weird is going to happen in the next book, that's for sure.
The prophecy definitely said 'as the seventh month dies', so it couldn't have been Malfoy, who was born June 5, even if his parents had thrice defied Voldemort, which I'm sure they hadn't. And Voldemort fulfilled the first half of the prophecy by choosing Harry, anyway, so even if it had meant someone else initially, it was made Harry by Voldemort. It's like Dumbledore said - if Voldemort had never tried to kill Harry, the prophecy couldn't be fulfilled.
I was surprised we didn't see the current incarnation of Voldemort close up in this book; that's gotta be the first since HP3, huh?
I wasn't surprised, actually. I found that to be quite brilliant, in fact. We hear about all this horror and devastation, and we never see the person causing it. I think that makes it more terrifying, really.
All in all, though, I enjoyed reading this one a LOT more than HP5; looking back on that entry I remember being so horrendously angry and pissed off that I threw the book across the room.
yeah, this one was considerably better written/edited. I thought it still had a few issues and could have been a little shorter, but overall, it wasn't nearly as tedious.
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Rowling has pretty much confirmed who R.A.B. is. She's not really being very secretive about that one. And I have a theory (not my own, but one I heard and that makes the most sense) about how he stole the Horcrux, too.
I have many possible 'last Horcrux' theories, the primary one involving an error Dumbledore made when he said the sword was the last surviving artefact of Godric Gryffindor.
I don't really remember the prophecy, but hm, isn't Draco Malfoy's birthday in June? Something really weird is going to happen in the next book, that's for sure.
The prophecy definitely said 'as the seventh month dies', so it couldn't have been Malfoy, who was born June 5, even if his parents had thrice defied Voldemort, which I'm sure they hadn't. And Voldemort fulfilled the first half of the prophecy by choosing Harry, anyway, so even if it had meant someone else initially, it was made Harry by Voldemort. It's like Dumbledore said - if Voldemort had never tried to kill Harry, the prophecy couldn't be fulfilled.
I was surprised we didn't see the current incarnation of Voldemort close up in this book; that's gotta be the first since HP3, huh?
I wasn't surprised, actually. I found that to be quite brilliant, in fact. We hear about all this horror and devastation, and we never see the person causing it. I think that makes it more terrifying, really.
All in all, though, I enjoyed reading this one a LOT more than HP5; looking back on that entry I remember being so horrendously angry and pissed off that I threw the book across the room.
yeah, this one was considerably better written/edited. I thought it still had a few issues and could have been a little shorter, but overall, it wasn't nearly as tedious.