Is Harry going to die? (Page 4)

I was wondering if that's what Harry is wearing in the picture on the US cover. 

Well, assuming I just read the actual Epilogue from the book (and there is no indication to me that it is not a true photgraph collection from the book.  Everything looked 100% legit to me), then I could give you the answer to the question for good .......... in fact I could give you a running list of who survives .......

BUT I WON'T BECAUSE SPOILERS SUCK UNLESS YOU ARE TRYING TO FIND THEM (like I was) .......

Without going into spoilers ....... and simply going on what was deduced after everyone finished HBP .......

Everyone on HPANA figured that RAB stands for Regulus Black, the locket at Sirius' house is the correct one and if we all remember from earlier in HBP, Mundunguss had a bunch of Sirius' stuff, one of those things was the locket if I remember correctly ......

Ooooh! Good call/eye, naners. Dumbledore wore the ring/horcrux after he had destroyed the horcrux in it. It will make sense.

x2. 

Yes, I recalled that Mundungus had stolen many House of Black possessions. However, wasn't sure if the locket was one of those stolen items.

PLEASE only spoiler-free speculation/responses. Thanks!

So does anyone know definitively (from the already released books) that Mundungus was in possession of the locket?

I noticed in the British book cover there is a hand holding a sword in the middle of the graphic. Gryffindor's sword? Hand seems to be blackened/shriveled (like Dumbedore's was).

I just read that Scholastic is going after the person who posted images of copyrighted material. Don't we call that stealing?

Excellent.

The only time it could have been mentioned was when Harry, Ron, Hermione saw him in Hogsmeade trying to sell stuff and he dropped everything.  I don't think there was a specific mention of the locket, jsut things with the Black crest on it.

But IIRC, the locket was one of things Kreacher was hoarding in OOTP???

I can't remember. Just remember that they found a locket, nobody could open it. Either Kreacher or Mundungus made off with it. Or it's still lying around the house somewhere.

Speculated about the locket with my nephew that one of our regulars might wear the locket and become possessed, like the way Ginny was possessed when she was in possession of Tom Riddle's diary. I think it's unlikely but not entirely so.

DANG I can't wait for the book to come out!

On Friday, Barnes & Nobles is handing out wristbands starting at 7pm for people wanting to buy the book. Books will be sold in order of your wristband (numbered?) but only if you've reserved the book (I have). I'm going to get my wristband at 7p then come back after 11p to get the book at midnight.

While they may (with a long shot in hell) be able to find the person, the fact that it is out and all over the place now (flood gates opened .... one person puts it on their hard drive and then even if it is taken off the net by a host, it still exists somewhere else).  So it can pretty easily be found.  Took me about a minute to find the Epilogue.

Unfortunate that it was leaked, but in this "modern" age, that is pretty much the norm.

I knew DD was killed before HBP came out because in like a 2 hour period the bets that he would be killed were 100x what they were at other times, adn all from one localized area newr the UK publisher ..... go figure!!

Actually, not such a long shot it seems. The user in question has been temporarily banned from the site and the site has been subpoened to release the identity of said user. They will also have IP address information which, I'm sure, will be part of the subpoena.

I wasn't commenting on if it can be found - just glad that they will find the culprit.

Edit: Seems they have already released the identity of the culprit. Too bad they can't send him/her to Azkaban!

A spokesman for Gaia told Bloomberg that it had complied with the subpoena, turned the name over to Scholastic, removed the material and banned the user from the site.

I, too, don't remember there being any specific mention of the locket in the things that Mundungus stole.  I think JKR would have mentioned it, had he taken the locket.  But, she just mentioned the stuff with the Black family crest.  I think I do remember Kreacher making off with with locket, though.  I'm going to go home and check tonight.

Is Mundungus still in Azkaban?  Or did he get out?  I can't remember. 

My second thought was time turner...but that wouldn't make much sense. 

It doesn't look to me like the hand is blackened or shriveled. BUT it does appear to be a sword with a big ruby on the end (which I believe Gryffindor's had) AND if you look closely, to the left of Harry's head are some wisps of what looks like grey/silver hair. The hand holding the sword seems to belong to the same person as that hair--and the hand holding Harry's shoulder. The skin looks rather bluish/deathly, so it could perhaps belong to a risen Dumbledore. But maybe that's wishful thinking.

Did he even go to Azkaban? Clearly I need to reread book 6... 

Woah.  Cool!!  Missed that.  But, it looks like a house elf.  Dobby? 

Our B&N did the wristband last time as well.  My wife waited in the line from like 4:30 on, then I took over after work, and I still didn't get into the 1st 100 ....... and they did not let in the order of the band, merely by "groups" of like 1 - 50, 51 - 100, etc.

It would be too much of a cluster f--k to try and get everyone in numerical order ......

I still didn't get mine until about 12:30 or so and I was in the 100's.

GOOD EYES! Now that you point it out - that's DOBBY!!!!!!!!!! (I'm guessing) or a rehabilitated Kreacher? My money's on Dobby.

Yeah.  For impersonating an Inferi (sp?) or something.  I think...