Is Snape Good or Evil?

This is the question that everyone is talking about right now, mostly because of Border's stickers and "There Will Soon Be Seven" from Scholastic. But what side is he really on? We will help you with this question due to our extensive research into the last six books.

Here are just a few points right now- (More later)

Snape Is Good:
1.) He works for the Order.(Book 5 and 6)
2.) He contacted the Order when he knew that HArry was trying to get to Sirius. (Book 5)
3.) He had Dumbledore's trust.
4.) He told Dumbledore that he was sorry and that he knew he had made a big mistake BEFORE Voldemort actually committed the killings of Lily and James.
5.) There is some evidence (we will point out in a later post) that Snape might even have been there at the Potter residence when Voldemort killed the Potters.
6.) He was so determined to get revenge on Sirius whe he thought that he was guilty of handing over the Potters to Voldemort. He was too determined for it to have just been an old grudge. (More evidence to prove that coming up later too.)

Snape is Evil:
1.) He killed Dumbledore!
2.)He hates Harry, and is always trying to get him expelled.
3.) He was a Slytherin.
4.) He favors the children of known death eaters.
5.) He made an unbreakable vow with a death eater.
6.) He is on his way to become the third most powerful wizard in the world. (Evidence later.)
7.) He handed Voldemort information on the Potter's.
8.) He doesn't really get along with any of the Order members.
9.) He has Voldemort's trust. And we all know that that is hard to earn.




The Potter Analyst Team's Views: (as of right now)
4 out of 5 of us think that Snape is fighting on the good side, and that he has a strange mystery that explains his actions. We all believe that he will be a key part in either the destruction of Voldemort or the destruction of Harry. Most of us also believe that he will play a major role in whether Harry finds and destroys the Horcruxes as well.

Stuff we NEED to look at...

Ok so we have the cover out, so what are we going to do? Analyze of course!!!!!
Above is the cover art, edited to highlight major things with in the picture(click to see anotations).
Where are they? What's up with the stadium thing?
What's up with the rocks and pieces of wood?
What are the people in the backround doing?
Why don't either of them have wands?
What is the curtain about? Is it something from the first book (curtain on cover art with person and teacup)? Or is it the mysterious veil? Or is it just a curtain?
What is up with the position of Voldy's and Harry's hands?
Harry has a locket on, is it slytherins? Or is it something we will learn about in the book?
Harry's scar isn't visible, Is it just behind his hair(even though Mary has shown the scar in all of the books cover art so far)? Or is it gone?
Also, the sky? Why that color? Is it sunset? Is something happening? Or is it just like that because of something else happening?
These are jsut a few questions. Will we get the answers to them before the book comes out?

Also I promised you guys more on Emmeline Vance and Ollivander.
I have concluded along with the Potter Analyst team, that Emmeline isn't dead. We will stay on this just to make sure that we can back up our theory with more than the one piece of evidence that we have to conclude this.
Also, we have concluded that Ollivander is on Voldemort's side. I will tell you all of the evidence we have on this in a later post.
-Potter Analyst

Page Count and Cover Design Released

This is it everyone the page count and cover design for Deathly Hallows has been released!!!!!
Cover art is above ^

Page Count:

American- 784 pages!

UK- 608 pages!

J.K. Rowling's Site

Ms. Rowling the beloved author of the best novels in the world, has updated her website. O and by the way... Happy Birthday Arthur Weasley!!!!!!!!

Muggle Cast #75 Harry Chest

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HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS IS COMING OUT ON JULY 21,2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BORDER'S BOKKSTORE HAS JUST ANNOUNCED IT AS THE RELEAS DATE. NO WORD ON WHETHER THE COVER ART FOR THE BOOK IS GOING UNDERWAY OR ANYTHING FROM J.K. ROWLING HERSELF, BUT WE CAN EXPECT IT TO BE COMING VERY SOON!!!! I WILL HAVE ALL OF THE NEWS RIGHT HERE ON POTTER ANALYST ONCE IT COMES OUT!!!!!

Ollivander?

Last time we hear of him he is kidnapped by Voldemort or dead. Now going back to the very first book Ollivander has remembered every wand he ever sold. Harry knows this and he also knows that he has the brother wand of Voldemort's, which came from two feathers given by Fawkes, Dumbledore's bird. Voldemort hates Dumbledore and is glad that he is dead. Does Voldemort really know what truly lies in his wand and if there is a connection somehow? No. Voldemort doesn't know that his wand is the brother wand of Harry's nor does he know that they are connected through Fawkes. Harry does. So now going to the GOF when Priori Incantatum occurs, Voldemort does not understand what is happening. He does not understand anything. He actually is described as frightened when it occurs. He finds out that there is more to the connection than just a scar. So what does he try to do, he tries to find out how to kill him. He tries to get the real prophesy. But Harry screws that up for him too. So now Voldemort is realy mad and he now knows that there is only a few more alternatives to find out more about the connection. 1.) Harry being forced to tell him. 2.) Dumbledore. 3.) The person who sold them the very wands that caused the Priori Incantatum. 4.) Harry's friends. Now who seems the most vulnerable? Ollivander. He is away from Hogwarts and away from everything. So now Voldemort probably knows about Harry's wand, which could probably be very close to the way in which he can be killed. More on this later... Potter Analyst, bringing you the latest news and theories.

Muggle Cast

MuggleCast #74 is here you can get it right here at http://www.mugglenet.com/mugglecast/

Mugglenet Fan Fiction

There are over 5,000 stories by fans for fans on this site. If you are as hyped up about it all just as much as I am or even more, YOU NEED TO CHECK THIS OUT! It has stories for anyone interested in HP and more! I can make a few suggestions on romance fics between Harry and Ginny which seem to be my favorite right now even though I normally hate romance books no offense to anyone. These are some funny and good stories and as I keep beta-reading them for you I will give you guys more suggestions and reviews on other stories. My suggestions and reviews are below are listed below. Thanks and keep checkin in.

Reviews: None currently, explore for yourself until I can get them up. Thanks!

Suggestions on reading: (Rated 14 and older for language and some sexual situations )-

More on the way but these for now:

Life Happens By: Colorof Angels

Just Married... Kinda By: ColorofAngels

A Glint of Gold By: hpmaniac666

(Rated 11 and older)-

His Heart died too By: RavenclawRose

Harry Potter and the Power of One By: Dumbledora

Looking for a Reason By: RonIsMyHomeboy

Horcruxes: Where are they?

There are many theories relating to where the horcruxes are but we are going to take our best shot at predicting some... 1.) the orphanage... Tom Riddle spent his entire young life there and in his wardrobe he liked to collect trophies, what better place to put one of his finest trophies ever... his soul. 2.)Riddle house... Yes he hated his father and he hates the fact that he has anything to do with muggles but, it is still his heritage and that is the place that he committed his first murder isn't it? His entire muggle side of the family. 3.) Hogwarts... He felt devoted to this place it was like his home, he loved it. It is where he learned many things from and it is where he learned about his true heritage. He was probably like a big Draco Malfoy, hating mudbloods and treating everyone like dirt because he is the biggest bully on the playground. Riddle found the entrance to the chamber there and had an award to the school for special services. It was his life. 4.) Borgin and Burkes... it was his first job and it is where he was employed when he found the cup and the locket. He learned many dark things from having the job. These are the places that I can only think of after my analysis. As we learn more aboutthe upcoming book we may be able to decide what certain things will be and where exactly everything will be. Keep checking in for the latest.

Muggle Cast

Muggle Cast #72 is now out, you can go here: http://www.mugglenet.com/mugglecast/ to listen to it!

You can get all of the current news about Harry Potter right here on Potter Analyst. Keep checking in.

Harry and Ginny Potter?

Things are looking pretty good for these two to hit it off. They definetly like each other and the connection between them has been growing ever since book 4. Now there is just one small little problem... Voldemort. Yah, not too small i guess. Harry tells Ginny at the end of HBP that they have to take a break for a little while. Ginny agrees. Harry still likes her, or loves her we don't know for complete sure if they actually do love each other enough to get married but... we will wait and see. Now we all want this to work out right? There are just some things in the way. 1.) Voldemort 2.) Death Eaters 3.) Horcruxes 4.) The possibility of either Harry or Ginny dieing since they are all main targets for the killing curse. 5.) The protection at Hogwarts is over (a.k.a : fall of the Order and Dumbledore's death). This screws everything up for our hopes. I actually think that Harry will make it out alive but Ginny might not. J.K. did announce that another person will die, that she did not expect to until last minute. She also said that it would be impossible for someone to make a sequel. ( But the last chapter is the epilogue so maybe Harry and Ginny die because of old age or something?) More on this when more information gets out to us. Keep checking in.

Mugglenet's 'What will happen in Harry Potter 7?'

This was excellent reading. It covers some major points and I personally loved it. It explains reasons and explanations about certain theories and it has an entire chapter devoted to Snape and Harry + Ginny/ Hermione + Ron. If you don't have it or have not read it you should definatly look in to buying it or borrowing it from a library. The book has answers to many questions and it just delves deeper in to the series than ever before.

No DH details yet! + OotP Director

The illustrator for the U.S. Harry books (Mary GrandPre) said that she does not have any details on the DH yet, she has not decided on a cover color yet either but she says that her favorite was OotP cover art. Also David Yates, new director of OotP talks about what drawed him to the movie and about the books.
Mary GrandPre interview: http://theartpodcast.podbean.com/2006/12/14/mary-grandpre-harry-potter-cover-artist/ David Yates interview: http://www.latimes.com/services/site/premium/access-registered.intercept

Special Awards and The Sorting Hat

Ever think of Tom Riddle's Special Award for Services to the School. Now that is very important to Voldemort because it connects him to Hogwarts. The school that he felt very connected to. He loved Hogwarts, it was his home. So wouldn't it make sense to make that a horcrux? Possibly but would he really want to put a horcrux right in the hands of Dumbledore? Yes. He would because Dumbledore, if he ever found out his secret (as he did before he got killed) would not expect it to be sitting just down the hall from his office. Now here is where Voldemort under-estimates Dumbledore's intelect. Dumbledore used the pensieve to help him figure out Voldemorts secrets. He now told Harry and Harry now knows Voldemort's secret too. Now in the scene where Dumbledore rejects Voldemort's job application for D.A.D.A teacher, Voldemort jinxes the job. Now if Voldemort had enough time to jinx the job wouldn't he have had enough time to make his special award a horcrux. I mean for all we know it could just be a spell to do it. Another piece of evidence is that in book two Ron has to wash the trophy room and it seems that everytime Ron touches the shield he starts to chuck slugs all over the shield and has to re-wash it, again and again. Now Horcruxes have a very magical piece of power. Could that mean that it could take your current condition and double it? Like if he has a problem it will cause the problem to double itself? Now the other part... going back to the same scene Voldemort twitches his hand in the pocket of his robes when Dumbledore gets him angry. Harry thinks that he is clenching his wand but it is possible that Harry overlooked it. The Sorting Hat. If Voldemort flicked his wand then its possible that he made the sorting hat a horcrux right? Now there is only that one part of evidence for that theory but it is possible, right?

"Power the Dark Lord knows not"

Well we already know about what that power is but how in the world is it going to help save Harry from death with the ability to love? I mean Dumbledore loved and he got killed? I think that there will be something that gives Harry enough magical power to overthrow Voldemort. possibly a scene with Ginny? Will Harry's love for Ginny power up his magical ability sort of like a happier memory powers up a patronus? Thsi is essential to the plot of DH because the final battle between good and evil will occur. Harry has to defeat Voldemort to restore peace. Voldemort has to defeat Harry to gain the power he seeks. Dumbledore is no longer with them and Harry has to destroy horcruxes which can hurt his body if he doesn't do it right. And all through this Harry still loves Ginny. Now that is powerful, but is it the kind of power that Harry needs? This is just an analyzed guess. Love over evil. It just makes sense doesn't it?

Deathly Hallows?

Many people are opposed to different theories when it comes down to this subject. Mayy people think it means the horcruxes. Many think it is a place. Others have their own opinions about it but those are the major ones. Personally I can't really determine exactly what they are yet. No one can. But just because we know we can't why not try, right? So lets look at these two theories in particular. Horcruxes. J.K. said that book 6 would give us a lot of answers. She said that it was leading us inot the final installment in the beloved series. So why would she not make the main plot finding and destroying the horcruxes. Now so far this is enough to get anyone to believe that that is what DH means but... has J.K. ever really came out and told us the entire plot in the title, knowing that we already know that horcruxes are going to be in the 7th book? This question is the breaking point. Why would she tell us that the entire plot was about Horcruxes in the title? How about she makes the title about something else big in the book like a place where something important is going to happen. It also could mean a different thing or an action like someone rising from the dead somehow? These are other theories but there are many more. This is pretty much all we know right now. We are still trying to analyze all of the previous books. We know that there is a key to at least part of the plot hidden in the 4th and the veil in the 5th. The 6th is full of answers, you just gotta know how to read between the lines. Especially in the scene where Dumbledore gets killed. There is something odd there as I explained in a previous post. As soon as I have pieced together anything that could possibly relate to DH it will be right here on Potter Analyst. Keep checking in!

The houses

Over the years many people have their prefered houses in their minds. The greatest popularity is Gryffindor closely followed by Slytherin. Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff had been battling for third ever since Sorcerers Stone. Many think Hufflepuff is where the bad witches and Wizards go to. So how did it keep up so much popularity and be a contender for third with Ravenclaw? So far we know much about Gryffindor and Slytherin and objects that they left behind. Hufflepuff we just recently found out. What about Ravenclaw though? Harry Potter fans have voted more on Hufflepuff through the years because we know more about Hufflepuff we always have. We don't know for sure who the head of Ravenclaw house is (many guess Flitwick but where is it in the book?) We know more about Hufflepuff. After the third book though some fans brought up the factthat Ravenclaw doesn't seem important. We find this out in HBP. No one seems to know who the heir to Ravenclaw is and what the heirloom that she left behind is. We want to know more about Ravenclaw and fans are screaming, "When will Ravenclaw get their day?!" They haven't beaten Gryffindor in a quidditch match, they have never won the house cup, they aren't mentioned about very much and J.K. refuses to tell us anything that could be very important about the Ravenclaws. When will Ravenclaw really get their day?

What about Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw?

Really when it comes down to these two houses we start to go into guessing. For Hufflepuff, we have a pretty good guess that the heir to Helga Hufflepuff would be Zacharias Smith. That is just a guess though. I mean Hepzibah Smith had Hufflepuff's cup so you would think she would be connected to her but she got killed so Zacharias Smith is in Hufflepuff and is a pretty good wizard. He could very easily be it. We don't have enough proof to say that he definetly is but he is the best guess we have. When we go to Ravenclaw though we have nothing. Absolutely nothing. In DH we sure hope to find out though. So if we have Harry Potter, Zacharias Smith, and ?Ravenclaw?. Will those three house heirs be enough to overthrow Voldemort?

Gryffindor vs. Slytherin

Throughout the Harry Potter series a main point that J.K. likes to express through her writing is that Gryffindors and Slytherins do not get along. In COS Professor Binns explains that Godric Gryffindor and Salazr Slytherin have a huge argument. Slytherin leaves the school and decides to make the chamber of secrets. Ok, so why is this important? It is important because later the heir of Slytherin (Voldemort) opens the chamber. He purges the school. Myrtle dies. Is she a Gryffindor? We don't know. Then he gets Ginny to do his bidding. Ginny is a Gryffindor. He attacks Colin, Nick (Gryffindor Ghost), and Hermione. All are Gryffindors. He also attacks Justin who was friends with some Gryffindors and was friendly to Harry until the Dueling Club incident. Also it attacks a cat. Now lions are a type of cat too. Now why is this important? The heir of Slytherin hated Gryffindors and later he ends up hating a certain Gryffindor named Harry Potter. If Salazar Slytherin when he left disliked Godric Gryffindor, don't you think that the heirs of those two people would also dislike each other? Yes. We know who the heir to Slytherin is and we know who Voldemort hates most of all, right? Harry. Harry's father was pureblood. He had an invisibility cloak, which is very rare and was most likely past down from generation to generation. His father was in Gryffindor and he lived in GODRIC'S Hollow. He worked against Voldemort with his wife Lily. He had been killed by Voldemort himself in a face to face duel. His son is half-blood just like Voldemort. Now when Harry had gone to Diagon Alley to get his wand he tried many different ones. When he finally found one red and gold sparks shot out of it. In Harry's second year Harry pulls the sword of Gryffindor out of the sorting hat and a red and gold phoenix flies in to save him. Harry's birthday is at the end of July (July 31). This date falls into the zodiac sign of leo the LION. Also out of coincidence (or maybe not) Harry goes to school when the head of Gryffindor house is a teacher who is an animagus. She can turn into a CAT. Now put it all together once and you get many clues that lead up to Harry having some major connection between himself and Godric Gryffindor. Harry is the heir to the great Godric Gryffindor. This could be a major secret to unlocking the plot in DH. Will Slytherin's heir finally get revenge and triumph over Gryffindor's heir or the opposite.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie

The trailer is out go check it out... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373889/trailers-screenplay-E30458-10-2 As soon as more news comes out on this you can get it right here on potter analyst

The Lightning Struck Tower

What about Dumbledore and what happened on the Lightning Struck Tower. Is Deathly Hallows referring to that as one of the Hallows? We don't know now butwe will later...

Hermione's Parents

We here very little about them... will they be key to the plot in DH? no one knows for sure but I think that they could be killed off farely quickly by J.K. it would dampen Hermione's spirits and that would be good for Voldemort wouldn't it? To kill someone close to someone who is helping Harry would be good for Voldemort right? Well we don't know but maybe they could be the secret to unlocking more about Hermione we could still find out more about her. They could definetly be important in DH but we can't be sure this is just another one of my theories.

Emmeline Vance

In OotP we hear about Emmeline during the flight to Grimmauld Place. We also hear of her only one other time through the entire series... when she dies. Snape tells Bellatrix in HBP that he led Voldemort with his information to the recent capture and murder of Emmeline just around the corner of the Prime Ministers offices. when we hear that we think of three things... 1.) what was she doing there? 2.) Why would Snape tell Voldemort information to lead to the capture and death of a member of the Order? 3.)Is Snape really on the Order's side then or did he fake Emmeline's death? We won't know until book 7 but I don't think that we heard the end of her in fact she could be the one major (hidden) clue that lets us guess where Snape's loyalty truly lies. We don't really know but she could be the answer.... more on her later.

Anybody see a wand just laying around?

did anybody ever think about maybe what happened to Dumbledore's wand? Who in their right mind would forget about a wizard such as powerful as Dumbledore and didn't snap his wand in fact the wand isn't even mentioned after Malfoy just disarms Dumbledore. Why is this? Earlier in the book though Hagrid and Slughorn are singing a song that has to do with a wizard dying and breaking his wand in half and laying it in the casket to be buried with. What is up with that and then just not even mention it in Dumbldore's funeral? There is something fishy going on here. Something that we don't know. I think we can expect a huge surprise in the Deathly Hallows about what is going to happen.