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Many of the ideas and theories on this list are things I've stumbled across while online; in other words, please do not to think these are the offshoots of my own wee mind.
That being said...a list of things I may want to refer to once I'vedevoured read HBP.
**What if Neville was memory-charmed to forget that Snape was one of the DE’s who attacked his parents?
**I think Harry will eventually choose to give up his magic, while mirror image Neville will choose to embrace his.
**Is time travel involved in that missing 24 hours in Harry’s life? (the time between the rebounded AK and when Hagrid delivers Harry to the Dursleys?)
**Is Sirius really dead, or is he time-travelling?
**I expect to see Bane the centaur again.
**Tonks is going to have greater significance.
**Harry may be a metamorphmagus.
**According to Jodel, Harry may be carrying around two souls inside him: his own and Voldemort's. Jodel speculates that Voldemort's Avada Kedavra curse, which literally backfired on him, separated his memory and intellect - let's call this his persona - from his soul. Voldemort's soul then, needing a warm body in which to live, and having nobody (haha) else around (since Voldemort's body was vaporized), leapt into Harry's body and is still there today.
This would explain a lot of things. Harry's scar, for example, is a magical injury, present because two souls are inside him and one is trying to get out to re-join its original persona. Voldemort still has a connection to his soul - this explains the telepathic link with Harry. This also explains why Voldemort is not roaming around like a zombie, as the victims of a Dementor's kiss would do - and THAT is very important indeed.
But if the curse just bounced off him, why does he still have a scar exactly where the curse touched his head? Consider this: if his mother's love really did protect him, he should have no marks at all. The fact that there IS a scar proves he has been injured; therefore his mother's love could not have been the perfect shield it has been made out to be.
**Were James and/or Lily employed as Unspeakables?
"AT the hand, not BY the hand" - many different outcomes are possible just from this line. If "the hand of the other" is, in fact, the silver hand VM gave to Wormtail, then it could come down to a HP/VM showdown, with Wormie having sustained a serious injury - but surviving it - and at that point in time, the "neither can live while the other survives" may come into effect. Both Harry and Voldie would be in a kind of stasis, much like the cage match of doom in GoF, and VM may try to control the hand, but PP will choose to fight it and overpower that control, in much the same way that HP can throw off Imperio.
**The prophecy for me seems quite simple. When Harry was a baby, VM attempted to kill him but his mother's ancient magic charm issued at the point of her own death protected Harry. Since an Avada Kedavra curse cannot be blocked, the curse was deflected onto VM himself.
This left Harry marked with a scar, but also it seems much of VM's power in the process. Why? It may have something to do with VM trying to avoid death. His own body was destroyed and we know he's studied many different ways of achieving immortality. Faced with death, he transferred his essence to Harry whilst his spirit escaped in a barely existent form which steadily over the years moved from body to body, small creatures to gradually larger, more complex life-forms until eventually being 'reborn' into the form he takes after Pettigrew resurrects him.
From the prophecy we can deduce that this form is not technically alive since "neither can live while the other survives". Using Harry's blood in the ritual at the end of GOF is a way of anchoring himself to the one body that exists that still contains his power and essence - Harry's. Once he has taken Harry's body, he can look for ways to achieve immortality.
This further demonstrates the above prophecy - VM can only "live" by taking Harry's body therefore, destroying him "by his own hand." Conversely, Harry can only live by destroying VM since VM only hope of life is to take over Harry's.
**Perhaps the happy reason Harry leaves the Dursley's earlier than usual is to work on his metamorphmagus/animagus transformation? Or apparating? Or to attend the "official" opening of the twins’ joke shop?
**Theory: Snape loved Lily. He knew he didn't have a chance with her, so rather than waiting to be rejected, he rejected her (re: the mudblood comment). He already hated James, but hated him more after the shack incident, and yet more after James and lily got together. The potters somehow figured into Snape's decision to turn traitor to Voldemort.
**Similarly, Voldemort will be "killed" as a wizard, but will live as Muggle. Making a Muggle out of a wizard can hardly be considered a murder.
I can only suppose that it would be a "fate worse than death" for Voldemort (or any wizard for that matter) to be stripped of his powers and forced to live amongst the Muggle world. Dumbledore alluded to things "worse than death" that could befall a wizard.
I can foresee a twisty ending where Harry has to make some choices giving up to Voldemort the powers that he, Harry, possesses. Harry first chooses to have NO wizard powers whatsoever, then chooses to have Voldemort possess only these powers (none).
** Per JKR: need to focus on WHY Dumbledore didn’t even try to kill Voldemort at the MoM battle. It’s not the reason he (Dd) gave….
**But the prophecy about Harry is in the present/indeterminate: Neither can live while the other survives.
Harry is living! Now. In the present. Which must mean that, in some sense of the word, Voldemort is NOT. And for Voldemort to come completely to life, Harry must die.
**Could one of the steps have been to divide his (Voldemort’s) soul with whoever would deliver a killing curse? Only Godric's Hollow took him by surprise as he didn't know that the curse he delivered to Harry was going to rebound.
In other words, VM somehow made it so if someone else fired an AK at him, it would bounce and kill the caster instead; only he didn’t count on the kind of protection HP got from Lily, so when the curse rebounded, it did affect him (as it was originally cast by VM himself and therefore didn’t fill the parameters of being cast by someone else). The other kind of protection VM had used kept him from total death, but his own curse damaged him/split his soul from his body. And, perhaps, some of his soul went to reside in Harry….
**in GoF, VM is resurrected with a potion – SS, the spy/double agent, is the Potions Master.
**Why did the AK bounce off Harry and hit VM? Why didn’t it bounce off Harry and, say, reflect/refract somewhere harmless, off to his left or whatever?
That being said...a list of things I may want to refer to once I've
**What if Neville was memory-charmed to forget that Snape was one of the DE’s who attacked his parents?
**I think Harry will eventually choose to give up his magic, while mirror image Neville will choose to embrace his.
**Is time travel involved in that missing 24 hours in Harry’s life? (the time between the rebounded AK and when Hagrid delivers Harry to the Dursleys?)
**Is Sirius really dead, or is he time-travelling?
**I expect to see Bane the centaur again.
**Tonks is going to have greater significance.
**Harry may be a metamorphmagus.
**According to Jodel, Harry may be carrying around two souls inside him: his own and Voldemort's. Jodel speculates that Voldemort's Avada Kedavra curse, which literally backfired on him, separated his memory and intellect - let's call this his persona - from his soul. Voldemort's soul then, needing a warm body in which to live, and having nobody (haha) else around (since Voldemort's body was vaporized), leapt into Harry's body and is still there today.
This would explain a lot of things. Harry's scar, for example, is a magical injury, present because two souls are inside him and one is trying to get out to re-join its original persona. Voldemort still has a connection to his soul - this explains the telepathic link with Harry. This also explains why Voldemort is not roaming around like a zombie, as the victims of a Dementor's kiss would do - and THAT is very important indeed.
But if the curse just bounced off him, why does he still have a scar exactly where the curse touched his head? Consider this: if his mother's love really did protect him, he should have no marks at all. The fact that there IS a scar proves he has been injured; therefore his mother's love could not have been the perfect shield it has been made out to be.
**Were James and/or Lily employed as Unspeakables?
"AT the hand, not BY the hand" - many different outcomes are possible just from this line. If "the hand of the other" is, in fact, the silver hand VM gave to Wormtail, then it could come down to a HP/VM showdown, with Wormie having sustained a serious injury - but surviving it - and at that point in time, the "neither can live while the other survives" may come into effect. Both Harry and Voldie would be in a kind of stasis, much like the cage match of doom in GoF, and VM may try to control the hand, but PP will choose to fight it and overpower that control, in much the same way that HP can throw off Imperio.
**The prophecy for me seems quite simple. When Harry was a baby, VM attempted to kill him but his mother's ancient magic charm issued at the point of her own death protected Harry. Since an Avada Kedavra curse cannot be blocked, the curse was deflected onto VM himself.
This left Harry marked with a scar, but also it seems much of VM's power in the process. Why? It may have something to do with VM trying to avoid death. His own body was destroyed and we know he's studied many different ways of achieving immortality. Faced with death, he transferred his essence to Harry whilst his spirit escaped in a barely existent form which steadily over the years moved from body to body, small creatures to gradually larger, more complex life-forms until eventually being 'reborn' into the form he takes after Pettigrew resurrects him.
From the prophecy we can deduce that this form is not technically alive since "neither can live while the other survives". Using Harry's blood in the ritual at the end of GOF is a way of anchoring himself to the one body that exists that still contains his power and essence - Harry's. Once he has taken Harry's body, he can look for ways to achieve immortality.
This further demonstrates the above prophecy - VM can only "live" by taking Harry's body therefore, destroying him "by his own hand." Conversely, Harry can only live by destroying VM since VM only hope of life is to take over Harry's.
**Perhaps the happy reason Harry leaves the Dursley's earlier than usual is to work on his metamorphmagus/animagus transformation? Or apparating? Or to attend the "official" opening of the twins’ joke shop?
**Theory: Snape loved Lily. He knew he didn't have a chance with her, so rather than waiting to be rejected, he rejected her (re: the mudblood comment). He already hated James, but hated him more after the shack incident, and yet more after James and lily got together. The potters somehow figured into Snape's decision to turn traitor to Voldemort.
**Similarly, Voldemort will be "killed" as a wizard, but will live as Muggle. Making a Muggle out of a wizard can hardly be considered a murder.
I can only suppose that it would be a "fate worse than death" for Voldemort (or any wizard for that matter) to be stripped of his powers and forced to live amongst the Muggle world. Dumbledore alluded to things "worse than death" that could befall a wizard.
I can foresee a twisty ending where Harry has to make some choices giving up to Voldemort the powers that he, Harry, possesses. Harry first chooses to have NO wizard powers whatsoever, then chooses to have Voldemort possess only these powers (none).
** Per JKR: need to focus on WHY Dumbledore didn’t even try to kill Voldemort at the MoM battle. It’s not the reason he (Dd) gave….
**But the prophecy about Harry is in the present/indeterminate: Neither can live while the other survives.
Harry is living! Now. In the present. Which must mean that, in some sense of the word, Voldemort is NOT. And for Voldemort to come completely to life, Harry must die.
**Could one of the steps have been to divide his (Voldemort’s) soul with whoever would deliver a killing curse? Only Godric's Hollow took him by surprise as he didn't know that the curse he delivered to Harry was going to rebound.
In other words, VM somehow made it so if someone else fired an AK at him, it would bounce and kill the caster instead; only he didn’t count on the kind of protection HP got from Lily, so when the curse rebounded, it did affect him (as it was originally cast by VM himself and therefore didn’t fill the parameters of being cast by someone else). The other kind of protection VM had used kept him from total death, but his own curse damaged him/split his soul from his body. And, perhaps, some of his soul went to reside in Harry….
**in GoF, VM is resurrected with a potion – SS, the spy/double agent, is the Potions Master.
**Why did the AK bounce off Harry and hit VM? Why didn’t it bounce off Harry and, say, reflect/refract somewhere harmless, off to his left or whatever?
