illogical

[freckles_and_doubt]

Today's Weirdness: a giant, articulated, multi-storey car-carrier lorry thing, loaded with new Isuzu long-wheel-base vehicles, stopped on the side of the road 10m from a busy intersection, in rush hour traffic, blocking an entire lane. The reason? as far as I can work out, so that about four guys could climb around on top washing the cars. There is no reason. The human race has lost the plot.

Very Harry-Potter immersed at the moment... always challenging, as I've read enough fan fiction that I have to continually belabour my dodgy memory to separate out more interesting fanfic events from the actual canon. (Hot Harry/Draco encounters not so much of a problem). I'm going to go out on a limb with last-book predictions, now bulleted on jo's instructions for your reading pleasure.

• I tend to make predictions within genre parameters (thesis: this is a folkloric giant's-heart narrative), so JK could always blindside me by actually doing something innovative. Nonetheless, IMHO Harry will defeat Mouldy Warts after destroying the last Horcrux.
• Harry himself won't die, nor will Ron or Hermione.
• I think a Weasley might buy it, either a brother or a parent (I hope it's Percy).
• Snape will quite possibly die, but only after proving himself (a) loyal to Dumbledore, and (b) central to the overthrow of Mouldy Warts.
• I'm not sanguine about Neville Longbottom's survival chances.
• For the record, I don't think that McGonagall is a spy for Voldemort, although it's an entertaining theory. (The evidence collated by the linked article I fear I tend to ascribe to JK's bad writing...)

Re-reading, I'm moderately impressed by the way in which JK salts throwaway ideas into earlier novels for later re-use: Dumbledore's mention of the Room of Requirements, for example. By this logic, the epic confrontation with Voldemort will undoubtedly rely on a bizarre configuration of Hermione's knobbly Elf hats, Ginny's Seekrit Seeker Skillz, the giant squid, and Trevor the Toad's propensity for running away. Or something.