The Unanswered Questions

The first six books are out! They have created a frenzy, conjured up a hysteria and opened doors to so many questions. Popular opinion is that if J.K. Rowling goes on to answer all these, she might end up writing a book so big, that it might be difficult to carry around! And yet, answer she must. Here’s a list of questions that need satisfactory answers…

Answers we must know:

* Where do Snape’s real loyalties lie?

* Why does Dumbledore trust Snape?

* Why doesn’t Dumbledore tell Harry about his reasons for trusting Snape?

* What are the remaining horcruxes?
o The diary is gone,
o The ring is destroyed
o Voldemort has a piece of soul in him,
o The Slytherin locket is still at large
o The Hufflepuff Cup is missing
o We have no idea what’s the one Ravenclaw or Gryffindor
o Nagini (?)

* Who is R.A.B?

* How does one destroy a horcrux?

* Who accompanied R.A.B to retrieve the locket?

* Which were the murders which Voldemort used to create horcruxes and why?

* What is the process of creating a horcrux?

* What is the importance of Lily’s and Harry’s eyes?

* Why did Voldemort give Lily a choice to live?

* Did James and Lily know about the prophecy?

* Was Lily's protection something she did on purpose?

* Who were Dumbledore’s other spies among Voldemort's followers? (Fudge says in POA that there was more than one).

* How did Dumbledore know so soon as to what had happened to James and Lily before he sent Hagrid to Godric's Hollow?

* If until the night of the attack, Dumbledore wasn’t so sure that the Potter’s were being targeted by Voldemort, did it mean that the Longbottoms have similar protections set up?

* What happened to the bodies of Lily and James? The wands? The 3 wands are unaccounted for in the books.

* What is Wormtail’s life debt to Harry? How will he repay it?

* What is the importance of the gleam in Dumbledore’s eye in Book 4, when Harry tell Dumbledore that the protection that Harry’s mother left him, Voldemort would have it too.

* What did Lily and James do for a living? What were their professions?

* Did Snape love Lily? Did anyone ever love Snape? Is Snape married?

* What is Dumbledore’s background?

* Why did James leave his invisibility cloak with Dumbledore?

* “The power the Dark Lord knows not” is love. So why is it a big deal?

* Where did Snape learn Legimency and Occlumency from?

* Does Snape’s hesitation to the third and final condition of the unbreakable vow have any greater significance?

* Why was the effect of Avada Kedrava different on Dumbledore? No one we know was blasted into the air!

* Was Dumbledore’s plea on the Astronomy Tower the one which said “Save me?” or the one which said, “Kill me?”

* What is the meaning of the conversation Hagrid heard at the lake, between Snape and Dumbledore, about how Dumbledore took too much for granted?

* Why could Snape pass through the invisible barrier? Was it because of the death mark?

* Was Dumbledore an animagus?

* What did Dumbledore see when he drank the potion in the cave that made him think that he was responsible for something dreadful?

* Is Dumbledore a parselmouth?

* What does Dumbledore’s will say?

* What’s with the veil in the Ministry building? What are the sounds? What’s the mystery?

* What will happen to Draco Malfoy?

* Does Godric’s Hollow and Godric Gryffindor have any relation? Or is it just a co-incidence?

* What made James and Sirius distrust Lupin and trust Pettigrew instead?

Answers that are good to know:

* What does Dumbledore see when he looks in the Mirror of Erised?

* What does Dumbledore visualize when he faces the Dementors?

* What shape would Dumbledore’s boggart take?

* Who has Dumbledore’s wand now that he is dead?

* What form would Snape’s boggart and partronus take?

* What is the core/description of Snape’s wand?

* What will Snape see in the Mirror of Erised?

* How did both Harry and Voldemort survive the killing curse? JKR says this is the "crucial and central question" of the story.

* What destroyed the house?

* What good was the Fidelius Charm, if others (Sirius, Dumbledore, Hagrid, Peter) knew where the Potters were anyway?

* What exactly was in Dumbledore's "last" letter to Petunia?

* Had Dumbledore created other protections on the Hollow? I'm thinking of the multiple protections that the Sorcerer's Stone had.

* Why wasn't Harry hurt if the house exploded?

* What did Dudley see when the Dementors attacked them in book 5?

* What happened to Sirius’s motorcycle which Hagrid had borrowed?

* Which is the character that manages to do some magic in desperate situations?

* What happened to Ollivander?

* Does lighting bolt shape of the scar on Harry’s head have any significance?

* How and when will Ravenclaw have its day?