HBP -- possible spoiler (but probably just rumor)

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

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I was listening to NPR this morning, and they had a news report 
about the attempt to steal the 2 copies of HBP which happened in 
England yesterday.  The reporter stated (after pronouncing JKR's 
name wrong) that the reason why the books were so coveted was 
because the author said that one of the main characters would be 
killed off in this book.  Um, have I been asleep?  Did JKR say 
this?  Have you all heard this, or did NPR just make it up?

--Joywitch Z. Curmudgeon, just visiting from the Curmudgeon Cave