Final thoughts.

Note: Book SIX spoilers here but really, if you haven't read book six by now, you probably don't care.

Well, here I am trying to convince myself to wait just a tad longer before running off to Borders to pick up You-Know-What at midnight. Ah the moment I have been waiting for - since finishing off Book Six two years ago, yelling in frustration as I reached the last page.

Six months or more ago I pre-ordered my copy and picked up my TRUST SNAPE sticker which is now displayed prominently on the Beer Fridge, next to EQUALITY MARYLAND and GREENPEACE.

Here are my final predictions -

1. Snape turns out to be good, or at least redeems himself. Honestly, JKR can NOT make her big, takeaway less of her 7 books be "don't give anyone a second chance, especially if they're ugly." She just isn't that kind of person.

2. Snape will die somehow saving Harry as Harry finishes off Voldemort, or dies enabling Harry to finish off Voldemort.

3. I'm undecided on Harry living or dying. I give him 55% odds of being alive at the end of the last sentence.

4. Remus and Tonks will live happily ever after, to my great disdain. So will Ron and Hermione, to my great joy.

5. At least one Weasley will bite the dust. (Well there's just so many of them! It's statistics!)

6. Harry is a horcrux.

7. We learn more about Regulus.

Well, there you have it. Of course, I was 100% confident that Mr. Weasley was going to die in book 5, and 110% confident that Hagrid was the half-blood prince - so - well at least one of those has got to be right!