User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-4738785-20121022024745/@comment-72.15.86.24-20121022231656

That is pretty much what I was thinking. You know the line, "An oath to keep with a final breath," ? It makes sense. Here are my theories:

''Twins snuff out the angel’s breath, ''
 * 1) Okay! Let’s start this off with something simple; PoVs. I think that our PoVs for this book will be Jason Grace, Hazel Levesque, and Frank Zhang. Maybe, if we are lucky, Reyna. The people that we will absolutely not have a PoV from: Nico diAngelo (I hate that!!! I want to have something more than just one word sentences from him! I mean, how am I supposed to do extensive digging inside his head with just that? Of course, I think that RR is going to draw out the mysteries of Tar-The Bad Place- a little longer.), Annabeth Chase/Percy Jackson(Yeah, yeah, bite me for saying this, but we aren’t going to hear from them. Sorry to break it to ya, but it would actually make the book less entertaining if we knew what was happening to them, even if it would make us feel better.), Piper McLean.
 * 2) Okay, so, we aren’t going to hear from Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson until the very end. Sorry all of you Percabeth fangirls out there, but it just can’t happen. It would ruin the suspense. I can tell you, though, that they are still alive and will remain that way.
 * 3) Well, we all knew this one was coming; someone has to close the doors of death from the inside. Yep, that means someone is going to be trapped there. According to Nico diAngelo, it would take an army to close the doors. And according to our good friend Leo Valdez, Nico diAngelo took on a peculiar tone while talking about closing the doors, as if there was something he still wasn’t telling them. Do I really need to explain what this means? *Sigh* Okay then.

''Who holds the key to endless death. ''

Sound familiar? Well it’s part of the “Mark of Athena” prophecy. Why is this important? It already happened! Well, not exactly. Look at the second line there. The first is to tell you who I am talking about, in case it wasn’t obvious already. The second shows his fate. Sure, he knows how to get to the doors of death, but the others could have figured that out themselves. It’s not like he was the only one who could tell them that. BUT! What if that wasn’t what the prophecy meant? What if it means that a choice, a decision, he makes will determine if the doors will close or not?

''An oath to keep with a final breath, ''

This is a line of the second great prophecy. Well, right before Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase fell into The Bad Place, Percy Jackson made Nico diAngelo promise him that he would lead the others to the doors of death and make sure they were closed. That is very much an oath. Now, it is terribly and extremely obvious what is going to happen to our little son of Hades.

As the only one of the demigods who can actually summon an army, Nico diAngelo will call upon an army of the dead and fight in the Battle of the Doors, but instead of fighting on the outside like Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and the other demigods, he’ll work from the inside, eventually closing the doors and locking himself inside, fulfilling his oath and halting the endless death. We might get lucky and RR might get him out of there before he dies, but I’m trying not to be hopeful. Oh, well.
 * 1) Okay, if it isn’t obvious by now, I think that Nico diAngelo is part of the prophecy, which means that I also believe that Frank Zhang is not. Why? Well, think about it. Sure his presence is needed, and he is meant to be there, but I don’t think he’s one of the seven. He is never actually mentioned in the prophecy, and doesn’t really have a main part in the series. I don’t fully trust him to come through in a fight (Unlike with Nico diAngelo), and he just doesn’t have what it takes (IMO) to be a main character. Sorry, Frank Zhang, you didn’t cut it for me.

That’s all for now, but if I come up with anything else, I will add on. Cya.