Post-GoF predictions for further Potter books - hilarious, mostly!

This is an email I unearthed while cleaning out my accounts. Well, compare the predictions as they stood back in 2001 with what we've come to learn now!

Unfortunately, I have no clue where this is from. Those in the know, please oblige.

Cheers!

Book 5
Harry will be 15 years old.
The title will probably be "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".
This
was announced by JKR on The Today Show during a visit to the US in Oct.
2000. She has repeated it at several subsequent appearances.
The book was to be due in November 2001 as JKR announced the book would
be released to coincide with the release of the film (due November 16,
2001).
The publishers have since announced it will be released no sooner than 2002.
Prof. Lupin and other favorite characters make a return! JKR says we'll see several "old" characters!
We learn more about the background of Lily Potter.
Hermione will be made a Prefect!

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Book 6
Harry will be 16 years old.
PlayMaker writes: "I have a friend at Scholastic and the 6th book summarization says that when Hermione is injured in the hospital wing, Ron and Harry go one-on-one with Voldemort."
Zelda writes: "The title of the sixth book will be Harry Potter and the Green Flame Torch [Peter Pettigrew returns] when Harry finds a torch that gives off a green flame that will heal good and kill anything evil."

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Book 7
Harry will be 17 years old. He will be in his last year at Hogwarts and will come of age in the Wizarding World.
Mircea reports: "I wrote a letter to J.K asking her some questions about future books she only answered 1 question which was will Lupin make a return. She said yes! J.K said she's pretty much sure she will put him in the 5th book but she definetly said he's gonna play a big role in the 7th book."
During an online chat at Scholastic, JKR was asked: 'What makes some witches/wizards become ghosts after they die and some not?' She replied: "You don't really find that out until Book VII, but I can say that the happiest people do not become ghosts. As you might guess Moaning Myrtle!"
ThE iNfOrMeR: Mr.I Nelson has expressed to me that Harry and Draco will work
together to stop an evil force in book 7.
Will Snape be redeemed in book 7? Perhaps a romance? JK Rowling has alluded to the possibility! We shall see...
One of the classmates will become a teacher at Hogwarts - but not Harry, Ron
or Hermione! ThE iNfOrMeR reports: it is not unlikely that the classmate who
becomes a teacher is none other than Neville Longbottom!
A BIG revelation is made about Lily Potter!
JK Rowling has said the last word of the last book will be scar! Now she says that it may change during the writing of Book 7.
Hermione will be made a Head Girl!

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Misc.
JK Rowling said that the next books will be "Darker". She said another person to die will be a "special fan" of Harry's. So I came up with none other then Colin Creevy, Harry's "close friend" !!! ~spiderweb
JK Rowling says, "Magic can't bring dead people back to life," so we will not see a "live" Lily or James Potter.
Maryanne says: "I got info from an editor that Harry is going to be expelled. I don't know when but he also said Harry is going to find another school and gets let back in Hogwarts after stoping something."
"There is more to the Sorting Hat than what you have read about in the first three books," Rowling says. "Readers will find out what the Sorting Hat becomes as they get into future books."
What determines who gets a letter for Hogwarts? JK Rowling says: "In Hogwarts there's a magical quill which detects the birth of a magical child, and writes his or her name down in a large parchment book. Every year Professor McGonigal checks the book, and sends owls to the people who are turning eleven."
We will learn what Harry's parents did for a living before they were struck
down by You-Know-Who! JKR says this is intregal to the plot!
Tom Riddle reports: "The fact that Harry has his mother's eyes will be very important in a future book. As is the fact that her wand was a nice wand for charm work."
We'll learn about Harry's grandparents in future books! We know for certain that Harry will not become an animagus like his father.
How do we know? JK Rowling has said so in several interviews!
The secret to Harry's riches will be revealed in an upcoming book
A reporter who interviewed Ms. Rowling let us know JK confided Harry will NOT be tempted to the Dark Side!
ThE iNfOrMeR: we will see an heir to Voldemort.
On 60 Minutes we learned the Ravenclaw Ghost is The Gray Lady... will we see her in a book soon? Actually, we've already come into contact with her!
Can you spot her in book 1?
"There is a character who does manage in desperate circumstances to do magic
quite late in life, but that is very rare in the world I am writing about."
- JK Rowling
We will see a return of Mr. Weasley's flying car, Aragog the spider,
Sirius
Black, Dobby and Crookshanks! We probably will not see Lockhart. We will
also see a return of the Dementors!
JK Rowling says Hermione will lighten up even more in future books!

Okay guys... most of that is pretty ridiculous, other than the obvious. Sorry for the speeling mistakes, I corrected a few of them but ... yeah. Just lazy.

Cheers,

- Joy [Y]