Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows
PREDICT THE ENDING CONTEST
ANSWERS
Last spring, area teens had the
chance to say how they thought the final Harry Potter book would turn out.
Here’s the summary of what really happened and what teens thought might happen;
if more than one person gave the same or similar answer, the number of people
appears after the answer. Our top two winners had the most correct answers out
of all the entries: Molly P. from the Hughes Library and Jordan F. from Pocono
Township Branch of EMPL.
1. Snape:
_10_Good _5_Bad _2_Still Can’t
Tell (no clear answer—it’s a matter of
opinion)
2. Which main characters die?
Enter as many as
three:
What really happened:
Snape, Tonks, Lupin, Fred Weasley, Dobby, Hedwig, Mad-eye Moody, Wormtail (Peter Pettigrew), Colin Creevey, Voldemort
What you thought would
happen:
Harry Potter 9
Voldemort 7
Snape 5
Neville Longbottom 4
Hermione Granger 3
Ron Weasley 3
Draco Malfoy 2
Hagrid
2
Lupin
Ginny Weasley
Luna Lovegood
Hedwig
Dobby
Lucas Malfoy
3. Who is R. A.
B.?
Regulus Arcturus Black
Your answers:
Regulus 9
No idea 5
Ron Weasley
A Voldemort follower
Crookshanks
Dumbledore’s father
Sirius’ cousin
4. What becomes of
Hogwarts?
It stays
open
Your
answers:
- stays open 8
- no idea 2
- it disappears into the sky
forever
- it crumbles and is left to be
rebuilt
- sold to a muggle company and turned into
businesses
- it is destroyed 2
- burns down, muggles
take control and build a souvenir stand on the grounds
- shuts down or becomes new meeting place for the Order of the
- shuts down and is used for meetings and events
- where the last stand is
made
- Hermione runs it when she comes of age
- Harry becomes Defense Against Dark Arts
teacher
- stays open, but Harry doesn’t
attend
5. Identify the remaining horcruxes:
Ravenclaw’s diadem, Nagini, Harry Potter (the four that were identified before
Deathly Hallows are Tom Riddle’s Diary, Slytherin’s
locket, Marvolo Gaunt’s
ring, and Hufflepuff’s cup)
Your
answers:
Harry 6
Nagini 8
Hufflepuff’s cup 5
Slytherin’s locket 5
Something of Ravenclaw’ 4
Something of Gryffindor’s
2
Something of Slytherin’s
Sword of Gryffindor
3
Harry’s
wand
Ron’s suitcase
The moving picture
No idea 4
Something at Harry’s birth
house
Riddle’s diary
The Sorting Hat
6. What becomes of Neville Longbottom?
Neville destroys the
final horcrux (Nagini). He
goes on to become Professor of Herbology at
Hogwarts.
Your
answers:
He is somehow related to Harry
Nothing
No idea 2
He dies 2
He becomes the most powerful wizard
He kills Bellatrix 2
He destroys Voldemort
He finds love, but dies
He ends up with Hermione
He dies saving Harry 2
He saves everyone
He survives
He plays a big role in killing Voldemort, but
sacrifices himself for someone (probably Harry) and dies
He stays at Hogwarts
7. Who triumphs in the end:
_7_Harry _0_Voldemort _11_neither
Correct answer:
Harry!
~ Please add any other brief predictions you’d like to
make:
Ron and Hermione get together
3
Harry and Ginny get back together
Harry makes a horcrux of Voldemort
Sirius Black comes back from the dead
Harry will either be Defense Against Dark Arts
teacher or Headmaster
Regulus Black is an animagus (Crookshanks) and he is
after the horcruxes
It’s gonna be amazing!
Norbert comes back in book 7
Neither good nor evil win—they balance out
Harry leaves school and becomes an auror
Dumbledore isn’t dead
Neville is part of the prophecy
Hermione marries Draco
Snape stops being creepy and devotes his life
to matchmaking and selling love potions
Ron dies and Harry and Hermione hook up
Sad ending
Ron becomes the next chosen one and takes over for Voldemort
Dumbledore comes back somehow