Ahh... all of those dire facts that we need to know about upcoming books.
Book 6
Voldemort will still be around until the last book, since Harry reportedly tries to kill him (what an ambitious little boy he is!) and fails. But I don't think he dies.
Harry and his friends are 16 Book 7
During an online chat at Scholastic, JK Rowling 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!"
One of the classmates will become a teacher at Hogwarts - but not Harry, Ron or Hermione
JK Rowling says, "Magic can't bring dead people back to life," so we will not see a "live" Lily or James 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 the Seventh Book.
Something huge will be revealed about Lily Potter (i.e, the climax of the series!)
On The Connection, a kid asked if Snape would fall in love. Rowling appearded to have started to say yes, but then stopped. She said she was extremely stunned at that question, and that we would find out why in #7 Misc.
Mrs. Figg, the old lady down the street who takes care of Harry on his birthday normally, could be the same person as Arabella Figg, someone Dumbledore mentions in the fourth book. Dumbledore tells Sirius to alert the "old crowd, Remus Lupin, Arabella Figg, and Mundungus Fletcher".
"There is more to the Sorting Hat than what you have read about in the first three books," Rowling said, "Readers will find out what the Sorting Hat becomes as they get into future books."
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 McGonagall 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 JK Rowling says this is intregal to the plot.
A reporter who interviewed Ms. Rowling let us know JK confided Harry will not be tempted to the Dark Side.
