Happy Anniversary Mary C.,Thats a special way to start any new year. We celebrated our 59th. in Dec. so appreciate how special it is. Happy New Year to all! We started the New Year with the Rose Bowl parade, working on my hand quilting while we watched. One of my Christmas gifts was a REALLY bad cold, so wasn't up to doing very much. I guess I am one of the few that keep my Christmas decorations up until Jan.6th. so wont be taking them down until then. Too, cold an blustery to do much outside. Today I planned out my first BA block, maybe I shouldn't call it that as it isn't the traditional theme but they will be hand appliqued. Trying to expand my applique this year. Jayne

froniga, I loved the whole idea of The Patchwork Planet, I thought it would be a cool business to be involved with. There are even times, as an aging adult, who is still pretty hardy and intact, to have someone like that to call! To know, when something is getting harder at this point in my life, that there would be somebody to call when it gets even harder in a few more years. Our neighbor called Sunday, needing help to open a jar of mayonnaise...and other days when she can't reach to open her garage door (no, she doesn't have an automatic garage opener.)

What i think is going to happen in the book, is very sad. i think that harry will live in the end. although the same can not be said for ron. i think that his is one the characters that will die in the book. he will be protecting harry or his family when it happens. as for the other, i think it will be hagrid who dies trying to save harry as well. snape will turn out to be a good guy, that only killed dumbledore as he was ordered. in the chapter of HBP snape was in my opinion being watched by wormtail when narcissa and bellatrix were there. he was listening at the door for the whole conversation, and i bet voldemort had him there to find out. he had more than once chance to kill harry, but he didnt. and i think that is because that he was in love with lilly, and that is the reason he despised james as much as he did. so he is a possibility to die as well. wormtail owes harry his life. dumbledore said that he didnt think that voldemort would want someone as one of his followers that owed a lifedebt to the person he was trying to kill. as for the horcruxes, we know there are 6 of them. the diary, the ring and the locket we know are half of them. so what are the other 3? well, it could be the cup that belonged to hufflepuff, and nagini would be the fifth, but what about the last one? its not harry, that much is clear to me. why would voldemort transfer a piece of his soul to the boy that he thought he had to kill that night? doesnt make sense to me. he marked him as his equal, and transfered powers yes, but not his soul. so the 6th and final horcrux is a mystery to me. we know from what dumbledore says that the 7th and final piece for harry to kill is voldemort himself. all i can guess is that the sorting hat and the sword are not one of them. i think that harry having his mothers eyes is going to play the biggest role of the book. it is mentioned over and over in the previous books, so there must be something significant there right? could it possibly be something like celtic magic? i think that draco will turn on voldemort and realize the errors of his ways. he couldnt go through with killing dumbledore, he was scared and couldnt do it. he knew what had to be done as ordered by voldemort and still couldnt do it. he will not die, but will turn out to be a teacher at hogwarts at the end of the book. someone will find a cure for lupin and he and tonks will end up living a very happy life together. with ron dying, that opens the possibility of harry hermione getting together. and personally, that would make more sense then hermione and ron. bill and fleur will get married at the beginning of the book. mcgonagal will become headmistress at hogwarts, hagrid will become head of Gryffindor, slughorn will remain as potions teacher, and head of slytherin, and someone new will teach transfiguration. not sure about DADA class. someone new will probably be introduced. i believe that filch will...

Martin if wolves are like dogs, they have got thick skulls. My dog has bashed her head quite hard on the door jamb when turning to chase a ball, and it didn't seem to bother her a bit.*g*