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I for one am not going to rest easy until book seven is at the publishers. The one great genius of Rowling's is always being pitch perfect with the characters. She gets caught off guard occasionally in minute details of the mystery plotting, but the characters always do what, in retrospect, they had to do.

I'm sure that the publishers have a plot outline in a safe somewhere, but no one but Rowling could write it the way it needs to be written. Considering how many times her style has been trashed, I am astounded at how clean the final chapters of this book are. Some of the endings were so confusing I had to read them over just to figure out what happened. This one is a marvel.

I seem to remember that DD had a twin brother that worked in the bar. Can someone ask a 12 year old? I might be mistaken. I don't want to fan the flames of conspiracy theories, but I wonder if that plays into DD's death somehow?

I also agree that maybe all of Voldermort's victims will come back to life at some point before it's all over - somehow escape that cave from the fifth book maybe?

Now, if Harry was one of the soul shoe boxes, that might explain the prophacy. Voldermort could never truly live again with that part of his soul until Harry no longer has it. Presumably, Harry would have to die for Voldermort to get it back.

What gets me is that it's diminishing returns on the soul shoe boxes. The first time he makes one, he has 50% of his soul remaining and 50% stored away. The next time he makes one, he can only donate 25%, etc. By the time he makes his 7th box, it must only contain <1% of his soul. As such, I wonder if the first one he made was the most valuable?