Prime said:
too much kissing and lovey dovey relationships.
Meh, I thought she worked it in really nicely at first (because there's got to be some of it), but yeah, it got out of control afterwards. That was really my only complaint with the book. I liked the sound of the word "snog" though. lol
I'm betting R.A.B. is a person, and it probably isn't Sirius's brother/cousin/thing. That would be too obvious. I couldn't believe Snape was the HBP and I couldn't believe Dumby was the one who had to go. Some pretty interesting plot twists in this one, and I bet Rowling'll just continue that style all the way through the seventh book. I bet Snape is R.A.B. This is DEFINITELY not the last we'll see of Snape after he killed Dumby. He's going to have the locket, I bet, and THAT'S how Rowling will fit him into the seventh book: Harry will have to kill him to get the final horcrux he needs before going on to face Voldemort.
As for the horcruxes, the list is like:
1) Riddle's diary [destroyed]
2) Morfin's ring [destroyed]
3) Nagini
4) Slytherin's locket
5) Hufflepuff's cup
6) Something of Ravenclaw's or Gryffindor's
7) Voldemort's own soul
Dumbledore said that he was sure that the only known relic of Gryffindor's was safe (Godric's sword). However, he was wrong about Snape, why couldn't he be wrong about the sword? Perhaps the sword IS the sixth horcrux, because I can't think of a single thing Riddle would make into a horcrux of Ravenclaw's. Nothing has been mentioned in the six books so far, and maybe something will pop up in the seventh, but I think it's probably the sword. It's had too much significance in the past (
Chamber of Secrets) for Rowling to just trash it.
Nagini seemed to be the horcrux Dumbledore was most unsure of, but IMO, Nagini must be a horcrux. If a horcrux contains a piece of Voldemort's soul, that would explain why Harry saw Voldemort through the eyes of a snake in
Order of the Phoenix: he was seeing through Voldemort's soul, which is directly connected to the snake now that it's a horcrux.
But the horcrux's must have been hidden. You saw how well the locket had been hidden before Dumby and Harry found it wasn't even real. Assuming Snape has the locket, and that Nagini is with Voldemort, and that the "Something of Ravenclaw's or Gryffindor's" is actually Godric's sword and is safe in Headmaster McGonagall's office, only Hufflepuff's cup is missing, and I'm betting Snape has that, too.
Brain...hurt...head...explode...
Yeah.