I have a feeling that Hogwarts will play a large role (about the size of the role Grimmauld Place played in OotP), but that the final showdown is going to be at Godric's Hollow. It's where everything started, and it's the one place that was actually Harry's home, if only for a little while.

I think protecting the home he's found is going to be his task now.

This is my thinking. I have a visual of H/R/H storming back into the Great Hall for a pitched battle after spending time (being drawn away by foul artifice) in Godric's Hollow. Or recruiting giants (Grawp has become the regional sales rep for joining the frey). Or cleaning up the ministry. And by 'cleaning up' I mean whupping ass.

Not sure why my HP7!Harry has come over all Rambo, but I'm enjoying it.

Crap, now I'm wondering if hte Dursleys are doomed.

I'm just waiting for Petunia to reveal that the 'awful boy' who came to visit Lily one summer (and told Petunia what dementors were) wasn't James, but was Snape.

And yes, I am still clinging to the theory that the reason Snape's change of heart about the Death Eaters was because he caused Lily's death.

(pokes Fay for more fic)

Hrrrmmmmmm.........

I *like* it.

I can see that.

What. Jilli. Said.

Yes. That.

They are, as many of you have guessed, most often home educated.

This just makes me shudder. Not that I'm dissing home education in general - I reckon that the handful of parents (in reality) who do this don't make the decision lightly, and one-on-one tuition is the ideal in many ways. But for a whole civilized society to be doing that?

Ngah! JKR, how could you? It wouldn't be so hard to tell us that there are Wizarding Nurseries! Plus - cute! And funny! And the teachers should get danger money!

But for a whole civilized society to be doing that?

Maybe there are professional tutors. I doubt Narcissa was sitting in the schoolroom teaching Draco how to multiply.

I don't think home-educated negates nurseries and what-not. She could mean they don't have formal schools, but rather informal groups for children with rotating parent/teachers teaching them the basics.

t /fanwank

It wouldn't be so hard to tell us that there are Wizarding Nurseries! Plus - cute! And funny! And the teachers should get danger money!

gently pokes Fay some more to write this

But for a whole civilized society to be doing that?

That just doesn't mesh with my view of wizarding society. Considering most of wizarding society is so far removed from contact with the Muggle world that they are bemusedly confused by things like batteries and rubber ducks and that there are Muggle Studies classes available at Hogwarts, it doesn't seem too much of a stretch that there are Witch/Wizard -only primary schools.

Maybe there are professional tutors.

I read a fanfic somewhere in which this is what Remus did before he got the DADA position before PoA.