I posted that a couple of hundred posts ago. I am very conflicted about this coming to an end and book 7.
Maybe we should compile a list of characters with some fact from the books. i think you are right about the Bones family. I initially thought that Amelia Bones was RAB, but the facts of all her initials got in the way. However, it has been mentioned in the books that Voldemort personally killed Amelia and pretty much the entire family.
Wormtail owes Harry his life and is indebted to him.
Neville is a wuss cause his grand always tells him how worthless he is and how he isn't like his dad. I think we may expect great things from him.
Rowling says in an interview that we get to know much better in the next book a member of the Order, can't remember if that will mean anything much as to the downfall of the Dark Lord. She also says that Petunia overheard the conversation about the dementors and that will be something big in the last book. Heck, maybe Petunia has visited Hogwarts and Voldemort saw her and had a thing for her (gag). Anyway, that could explain why Voldemort gave Lily the chance to live.
I moreso think Snape had a thing for Lily which is why he came to DD and I think that is when he may have made an unbreakable vow with DD that he would do whatever was needed for the Order.
I think I'll be re-reading them all shortly. I need to do my re-read of HBP first though, and then perhaps I'll go back to book 1 to take some notes.
i think you are right about the Bones family. I initially thought that Amelia Bones was RAB, but the facts of all her initials got in the way. However, it has been mentioned in the books that Voldemort personally killed Amelia and pretty much the entire family.
That was my initial thought too. I know most people think it's Regulus Black, but I don't remember seeing him with a middle initial. Another reason to re-read the earlier books. Slowly. ;-)
I moreso think Snape had a thing for Lily which is why he came to DD and I think that is when he may have made an unbreakable vow with DD that he would do whatever was needed for the Order.
I absolutely think Snape had a thing for Lily. She was the only person who was nice to him when they were in school.
Here's a theory some of my friends and I had after the 2nd book, but I never thought about it again until we learned that Petunia knows more than she says she does.
Lily and Petunia are the names of plants/flowers. There is another name of a plant/flower in these books: Myrtle. Could Myrtle somehow be related to Lily and Petunia? I know they're Muggle-born, but so was (I'm 99.99999% sure Myrtle was too). Could there have been a distant relative who was also a witch? Could Myrtle be related to Harry?
You know, I'm really not a conspiracy theorist!