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[heidi]

1. So Book Six can be translated to Harry Potter & Severus Snape, then?
Huh.
2. If what Harry wishes/expects at the end of Book 6 comes to pass, then book seven is "post hogwarts" and it'll turn out I was right in saying that I didn't ship any of the trio with anyone else of the trio at Hogwarts. Again, huh.

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Draco*Harry*Snape

[enelya-oronar.livejournal.com]

Hard to digest that book 7 is post-howarts. I think that will take a while for the brain to wrap around. Boot 7 was supposed to be NEWTS and Auror training and some kind of graduation ceremony.....wow. No Hogwarts...brain is over-heating.

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[enelya-oronar.livejournal.com]

See before coffee the spell checker just is not functioning - That is really bad!

Re: Draco*Harry*Snape

[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

We don't ever, ever graduate from school !

Re: Draco*Harry*Snape

[(Anonymous)]

Heidi posting - lj is buggy this AM.
You do graduate on the Uni level and there's no wizarding Uni so they just might have something at the end of 7th as it's the end of their education. We just don't know.

Re: Draco*Harry*Snape

[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

This is true. However, if JKR wanted it as part of the wizarding structure, she's had more than one ( hah ! ) opportunity to mention that Molly and Arthur had been or would be at some ceremony and to make some reference to it being secret if there were such a thing.

However, in my experience ( when I finally left school, I was at a school which had some of the hallmarks of the private school system in this country ) we had no special ceremony, just a lame tea party. I had to leave one school at sixteen ( no sixth form ), where we got up in assembly and mimed to that song from the end of Grease ( appropriate lyric) and then we had a tea party ( where we got given a little bell and I bawled my eyes out ) but there was no leaving ceremony as such. Therefore, I would strongly suspect that she does not see there being a ceremony.

One other, unrelated point. Everyone is assuming this last book will be post Hogwarts. I am really not so sure. I think he will find that he needs to be there to fulfil his destiny.

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[enelya-oronar.livejournal.com]

:o( Did not know about the ceremony thing. I just figured Harry had never witnessed one.

I do think Harry will return to Hogwarts for something significant. He will probably need GG's sword, Faulkes, MM's advice, or something. But it is shocking to think Hermione will not be in school for year 7!

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[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

I think she will. I think that one or all of them will realise that there is still a lot to be learnt from being at school.

I think the structure of the academic year ( September to July ) is what helps JKR when she writes. I think this last part of the story still has to be linked to that structure.

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[enelya-oronar.livejournal.com]

Okay, how about Hermione returns to school as a Hogwarts spy/liaison/internal source of information? They can communicate through the Order's way. Somebody would need to be at Hogwarts. Although my bet is more on Neville, Luna or Ginny being the 'insider' I guess it could be Hermione.

i just cannot picture Hermione at school while Harry and Ron hunt w/o her. Harry said he would go 'home' as AD wanted then off to find the Horcruxes. Ron said they would be with him. After all - Harry is still considered an underage wizard. Ron and Hermione are of age and can do magic that Harry cannot. This will be tricky. Harry will need them.

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[enelya-oronar.livejournal.com]

Are you being literal? Perpetual students? Or just humor that non of us will ever leave Hogwarts?

I know we have not ever been told of a graduation ceremony, but that just means Harry has never witnessed it. It would have to happen, right?

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[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

As I tried to explain in my other reply, there is no universal ceremony for graduation, as you in the US experience. We take our exams, pretty much like OWLS and NEWTS, we hand back our books, maybe there is some kind of social thing with the teachers, maybe we go back for the last day, but nothing with caps and gowns and diplomas. Since JKR appears to be following the English/Scottish private education system - houses, prefects, heads of house, sporting competitions, I take it that she does not forsee any ceremony otherwise she has had lots of chances of tell us, with lots of characters leaving school.

pink floyd.

[shusu.livejournal.com]

...we don't need no education?