The trojan war, ransom of red chief, to sir with love etc,....

The other day me and my colleague baba were discussing some school level stuff....
baba? is it his nickname? yes, at work we nicknamed him "baba", because he gives all those philosophical fundaes..not those oldies type fundaes...but the most modern level ones....and too good and funny ones... :)
newayz... we were discussing the school level text book stuff...he and me were students of the state board of education and had read the same english text books through our 6-10th classes..
it really wondered me that he remembered most of the stories (lessons to be exact) that we had read for 5 years....
we read some really beautiful stories...that were so small..that would fit into 3-4 pages..but that had so much to gain from....
one story that I read in my 6th class was, "The Trojan war"...I think this book was the one that set me off onto all the novels and stories that I have ever read uptill now..
This book had so much influence on me that I had refused to watch the movie "Troy", because the plot of the movie differs from what I had read in the text book...considering I'm a big time fan of Brad Pitt's movies...

Those text books introduced me to a lot of new words...some of them were "coincidental", "circumstantial", "wild goose chase" , "yankee" and many more....
I've read a story about Christian Bernard, the first person to do a human heart transplant..."the ransom of red chief" by O.Henry....about the life of boy who had burnt his feet, but later went on to break olympic records in athletics.....about "the night the bed fell", a story which talks about the confusion created when the author fell off from his bed and the bed overturned.... about a man who had to clean a room thrice to get an admission to a prestigious colleage (a real story!).....about how to behave in a class room ...
the last one is from "To Sir with Love" by E.R.Braithwaite..... when I read the entire book later...it was awesome..but, i was so dumb to loose the book :(...
Though, I had read only abridged versions of most of these stories...they have a lot of message.. and so appropriate for the pupils of that particular age...
Though, I don't want to go back to that age.....as many ppl would want to ....I'd definitely want to read all those stories again and probably again..and still those stories would not go stale for me...

The magic is coming back!!

Harry potter..more than half the kids in the world would have heard,read, watched this character and the magical world, this character and his friends live in!!
Uptil now, as most of you know, a series of six most wonderful books have come out (thanks to the author, you know who)....now, the buzz about the seventh book has started!!
The buzz about who will die in the seventh book? will Harry conquer voldemort?
Or, will Harry die try killing voldemort?(that would be a very sad ending for such a wonderful series)..newayz..we wudn't know JK Rowling has up her sleeve until the next buk is released...
next buk??isn't it the last buk?..speculations abt the eight buk are also doing rounds on websites..but JK Rowling supposedly confirmed, the seventh buk wud be the last one in the series...
the buzz, intensified, when JK Rowling was tried to stop carrying the draft of the seventh book from carryin in a flight from america to england...
but, the authorities had to give in and allowed her to carry the book along with her..gud news for everybody..that nothing frm the buk leaked out..
and now the buzz increased again.
and guess what!!, the name of the book is out!!
supposedly, its the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".
now i've read all the six books twice.. i've had a couple of questions..will JK Rowling answer them in the seventh book?
my questions:

Why did Dumbledore smile when he learnt that Voldemort had used Harry's blood to regain his body ?

Who is R A B? Is he Dumbledore's brother?

Who is snape? What are his intentions?

Did Dumbledore actually die?

wait and see!